The Wahid Institute is a Research Center on Islam, based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

It is dedicated to "the development of both Indonesian as well as Islamic society, improving the welfare of lower class of the society, building democracy and fundamental justice, and expanding peace and non-violence throughout the world.

[1] Yenny Zannuba Wahid was appointed director of the Institute.

She later stated the institute was established because our “current world situation which is haunted by violence and raising threat of terrorism, for whatever reason, has forced us to take cooperative action in the form inter-religious, nation and ethnic dialog.”[2] On 12 June 2007, the Wahid Institute together with the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Libforall Foundation sponsored a conference on the Holocaust, to counter the Iranian International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust and to promote interreligious peace.

The conference took place in Jimbaran, the location of the 2005 Bali bombings perpetrated by the Islamist group Jemaah Islamiyah.