Indonesia’s top Muslim leaders hold environmental congress

A volunteer checks plastic waste while conducting research on the amount of micro-plastics contained in the water at a beach in Pekan Bada, Indonesia's Aceh province. - AFP

JAKARTA, July 29 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The country’s top Muslim leaders have convened to raise awareness about the impacts of the climate crisis and to mobilise support from the country’s millions of Muslims.

The forum, called the Muslim Congress for a Sustainable Indonesia, began on Thursday at the Grand Istiqlal Mosque in Central Jakarta, the largest in the country, with a treatise on the leaders’ recommendations set to be issued on Friday.