Umi Laila

Umi Laila — full name Ummi Lailatul Rahmah Hadi, known as Ning Umi Laila — is a young Indonesian preacher and religious singer, born in Surabaya on 8 August 2000. The eldest daughter of the East Java kiai Edy Rahmatullah, she became a widely followed online preacher through cheerful dakwah interwoven with sholawat singing, graduated from UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya in 2023, and manages her father's pesantren in Surabaya. ¹

She is the eldest of three children of Edy Rahmatullah, known as "Kyai Granat", a Nahdlatul Ulama figure in East Java and caretaker of the Pondok Pesantren Rahmatullah, and his wife Sulastri, who is also a preacher. She was schooled at the Sunan Kalijaga pesantren at Simo, Surabaya, during her senior-high-school years. In January 2026 she married Gus Anas Hidayatulloh, a Banjari vocalist at the same pesantren, in a closed family ceremony in Surabaya, as the article reports. ¹

She graduated from the State Islamic University Sunan Ampel (UINSA) Surabaya, in the Faculty of Dakwah and Communication, programme of Islamic Communication and Broadcasting (KPI); she was among the graduates confirmed at the university's 104th graduation in 2023. ¹

Her preaching mixes short talks with sung sholawat, a style that spread quickly on social media. She has run a YouTube channel since 2018; the article records about 227,000 subscribers and some 14.9 million views, and about one million Instagram followers, at its writing. The 2025 study "Virtual Spaces of Islamic Preaching", read for the museum's November 2026 harvest, counted about 1.6 million TikTok followers, 1.1 million on Instagram and about 512,000 YouTube subscribers (dated platform figures, not museum-verified facts). She also fills religious programming on Indonesian television, including RCTI's "Bunga-Bunga Hati". ¹

• Indonesian Wikipedia, "Ning Umi Laila", as read on 4 November 2026. ¹