Ahok accused MUI chairman Ma’ruf Amin, who testified in the trial on Wednesday, of bias in issuing an edict alleging the governor committed blasphemy.

"The MUI deeply regrets the defendant [Ahok] and his lawyers’ statements about witness [Ma'aruf], which tended to [...] discredit the witness' testimony in an arrogant and impolite way," MUI deputy chairman Zainut Tauhid Sa'adi said during a press briefing at his office on Thursday.

He added that he urged the Judicial Commission, Supreme Court and Attorney General Office to enforce court's code of ethics and to tightly monitor the trial to ensure it was run in accordance with the code.

Ahok has since issued an apology in a written statement, saying that he did not mean to discredit Ma'ruf, who is also an elder of Nahdlatul Ulama, the country's biggest Muslim organization whose members are known to highly respect their leaders and elders.

In response, Ma’ruf said that although he had yet to hear the apology, he would forgive someone who had asked forgiveness.

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