 Muhammad Darwis ( Ihsan Tarore ) is a youth in 19th @-@ century Kauman , Yogyakarta , and the son of Kyai Abubakar , the imam of the area 's mosque . Displeased with the mixture of Islam and animistic Javanese mysticism , which leads to poor Javanese spending exorbitant amounts of money on religious ceremonies , Darwis decides to go on the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia . While there , he studies what he considers the true form of Islam over a period of five years . 
 Muhammad Darwis ( Ihsan Tarore ) <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>a youth in 19th @-@ century Kauman , Yogyakarta , and the son of Kyai Abubakar , the imam of the area <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>mosque . Displeased with the mixture of Islam and animistic Javanese mysticism , which <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>leads</mark></a> to poor Javanese spending exorbitant amounts of money on religious ceremonies , Darwis <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>decides</mark></a> to go on the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia . While there , he <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>studies</mark></a> what he <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>considers</mark></a> the true form of Islam over a period of five years . 
Muhammad Darwis ( Ihsan Tarore ) a youth in 19th @-@ century Kauman , Yogyakarta , and the son of Kyai Abubakar , the imam of the area  mosque . Displeased with the mixture of Islam and animistic Javanese mysticism , which lead to poor Javanese spendin exorbitant amounts of money on religious ceremonies , Darwis decide to go on the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia . While there , he study what he consider da true form of Islam ova a period of five years .