Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) chairman Said Agil Siradj (right) sits next to NU rais am (supreme leader) Ma'ruf Amien at the muktamar (national congress) on Aug
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About 300 leaders of moderate Islam from across the globe will meet in Jakarta to discuss measures to prevent the spread of Islamic radicalism and terrorism in the name of religion, an Islamic cleric has said.
"This event is to harmonize the perception of Islam because [the profile of] radicalism and terrorism has been intensifying given the recent bomb attacks", Nahdlatul Ulama's (NU) advisory board chairman Ma'ruf Amin said after a meeting with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo at the State Palace on Thursday.
The event named the 'International Summit of the Islamic Moderate Leaders' will take place from May 9 to 11 at the Jakarta Convention Center, and will be attended by some 300 representatives from 60 countries, Ma'ruf added.
NU chairman Said Aqil Siradj stressed that the country's largest Islamic organization was an anti-violent socio-religious organization, starting from its executives in the central board to its smallest branches in villages. "All of us are anti-radicalism and hold the principle of a tolerant Islam", he went on.
The event will also attended by a number of government officials such as Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan and the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) chief Insp. Gen. Tito Karnavian.
The organizers have also invited experts from all around the world namely Nico Proca, an expert of the Islamic State movement, from the University of Vienna, the former Grand Mufti of Egypt Sheikh Ali Gomaa, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh and the presidential envoy to the Middle East and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Alwi Shihab. (bbn)(+)
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