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ndonesia has asked Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi to postpone her visit to Jakarta, Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Friday.

Kalla said the persecution of Rohingnya Muslims in Myanmar had been widely reported in Indonesia and therefore her visit, scheduled for Friday, when thousands of people in Jakarta rallied against the city’s governor over blasphemy allegations, would exacerbate the situation in the capital.

“It is not only based on their request. We also asked them to postpone it,” Kalla said as quoted by kompas.com.

Kalla said if Suu Kyi decided to visit, then the Rohingnya issue could escalate tensions in the country, which is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.

Suu Kyi is facing mounting pressure over her government’s poor handling of the violence faced by Muslims in Rakhine, where soldiers have reportedly blocked access for aid delivery and are accused of raping women and killing civilians.

In Jakarta, participants of a rally held on Nov. 25 to protest the oppression and killing of Rohingya Muslims demanded the revocation of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Suu Kyi for her failure to stop the crackdown on the Muslim group in her country.