TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has planned to work with Islamic mass organizations to run deradicalization programs. Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Minister Luhut Panjaitan said that the President invited a number of mass organizations to emphasize the program.

“The President wants to cooperate with mass organizations to disseminate deradicalization programs, as well as those related to drugs issues,” Luhut said after accompanying President Jokowi meeting with the Nahdlatul Ulama Executive Council (PBNU) and the Indonesian Islamic Propagation Institute (LDII) at the State Palace on Friday, February 5, 2016.

Luhut added that the President had asked Islamic mass organizations to call on religious figures to emphasize deradicalization programs during their sermons.

“Therefore, sermons will focus on peaceful Islam, instead of news that could lead to provocations,” Luhut said.

The President would invite other Islamic mass organizations to help the government fighting against terrorism and radicalism.

PBNU chairman Said Aqil said that his organization would be ready to mobilize their religious figures across the country to participate in deradicalization programs. Said claimed that the PBNU always spread peaceful Islamic teachings and opposed terrorism.

LDII chairman Abdullah Syam said that his organization had declared its opposition against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Abdullah Syam said that Islamic schools managed by the LDII emphasized peaceful Islamic teachings.

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