German Chancellor Angela Merkel (center) stands as she pose for a photograph with Indonesian Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu (left) and mosque officials during her visit to Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta July 10, 2012.   Reuters/Beawiharta

German Chancellor visits Istiqlal Mosque and Immanuel Church

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - German Chancellor Angela Dorothea Merkel visited Istiqlal grand Mosque here on Tuesday as part of her state visit to Indonesia, before the meeting with Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY). During the visit to Southeast Asia`s largest mosque, Merkel was accompanied by the mosque`s imam Ahmad Husni Ismail and the chief of mosque`s executive management board, Mubarak. Merkel is in...