REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Vice President Ma'ruf Amin supports the establishment of a global women's ulema assembly. The existence of this assembly as an effort to provide space for women explores the potential to contribute to finding solutions to global issues, as well as supporting gender equality in accordance with Islamic sharia.

This was conveyed by Ma'ruf while receiving Egyptian female scholar Nahla Sabry El-Saidy at the Official Residence of the Vice President Jl. Diponegoro No. 2, Jakarta, Thursday (21/12/202).

Nahla, who currently serves as the Director of Markaz Tathwir (Al-Azhar Center for the Development of Students and Foreign Students), presented her thoughts in an international forum on the need for the establishment of a Global Women's Ulama Majlis, including in Indonesia.

“In Pakistan, such assemblies have been formed, I hope that in all Muslim-populated countries (including Indonesia) they will also form the same assembly, because each location has different problems,” Nahla was quoted as saying in a press release by BPMI Setwapres.