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Muhammadiyah invites Jokowi to open its meeting in Ambon next week
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (center), accompanied by State Secretary Pratikno (right) and Muhammadiyah chairman Haedar Nashir, talks to media at the Muslim organization’s offices in Jakarta recently. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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epresentatives of Muhammadiyah visited President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo at the State Palace on Monday to invite him to open the organization’s tanwir (enlightenment) meeting in Ambon, the capital of Maluku, next week.
The meeting – which is just one level below the organization’s most important event, the congress – is scheduled to take place from Feb. 24 to Feb. 26 to discuss nation issues with 400 top executives of the organization and some ministers.
“The tanwir will also discuss global affairs, but the event’s agenda does not include the selection of a new Muhammadiyah chairman, unlike the congress," Muhammadiyah secretary general Abdul Mu’ti told reporters.
(Read also: Extremism becoming more common: Muhammadiyah)
The country’s second-largest Muslim organization with some 30 million followers says it chose Maluku as the location for its second-biggest event, because the province has been through a special period of social harmony following violent sectarian conflict a decade ago.
The President, along with the organization and the city administration of Ambon, will launch two projects, namely the University of Muhammadiyah and the Moluccas Muhamadiyah Hospital. (dan)
