Khalid Basalamah

Khalid Zeed Abdullah Basalamah is an Indonesian preacher and entrepreneur, born on 1 May 1975 in Ujung Pandang, now known as Makassar, in South Sulawesi¹. He studied at the Islamic University of Madinah, then took a master's degree at the Muslim University of Indonesia and a doctorate at Universiti Tun Abdul Razak¹. Sources describe him as a prominent figure of the Salafi movement in Indonesia, and his daily lessons and lectures reach millions of followers on YouTube and social media¹.

Khalid's father, Zeed Abdullah Basalamah (1940–2020), founded the Addaraen Mosque and its boarding school in Makassar¹. Khalid received his religious education in Madinah, and he gave Friday sermons at the Muslim University of Indonesia from 1999¹; he left university lecturing in 2013 to devote himself to preaching¹.

Basalamah taught hadith classes and series on the Prophet ﷺ's biography and exegesis, among them his lessons on the book Bulugh al-Maram, and built his largest audience on YouTube, where his channel reached about 3.31 million subscribers in platform figures of November 2026¹. Alongside preaching he runs businesses through his company and chairs the Ats-Tsabat Foundation¹. His books include Palestina yang Terlupakan ("The Forgotten Palestine", 2018)¹. He received an "Honorary Scholar and Preacher" award in 2017 and an honorary professorship in 2023¹.

Positions are reported here as the sources give them; they are their holders' statements, not the museum's verdict. In March 2017 a preaching gathering of Basalamah's in Sidoarjo, East Java, was disbanded by members of GP Ansor and Banser, the Nahdlatul Ulama-affiliated movements, on the ground that his teachings conflicted with Nahdliyyin practice¹.

Basalamah is among the most widely followed Indonesian preachers on digital platforms, with about 3.31 million YouTube subscribers in platform figures of November 2026 — platform figures that change constantly and are not presented by the museum as fixed facts¹.

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