REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Chairman of National Movement to Safeguard Indonesian Council of Ulema’s Fatwa (GNPF-MUI) Bachtiar Nasir said the dialog with President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) was not held immediately. He said it was a result of Muslims’s struggle at November 4, 2016 rally (411 rally).

"It was a big mistake for saying the meeting is happened in a sudden. This is a journey of 411,” he said in a press conference at AQL Islamic Center, Jakarta on Tuesday (June 27).

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Bachtiar said, before the meeting with Jokowi, GNPF MUI had met the Minister of Religious Affairs, Lukman Hakim Saifuddin. At Eid al-Fitr night, the minister forwarded the submission to Coordinating Minister of Politics, Law, and Security Wiranto.