"The representatives, who will comprise ulemas and rally leaders, will be received at the Presidential Palace," spokesman for the Jakarta Metropolitan Police Senior Commissioner Awi Setiyono said here on Friday.
At the meeting, the representatives of the demonstrators will submit a petition to the president and vice president, he said.
Thousands of demonstrators marched from Istiqlal Mosque to the National Polices Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) Office at Ridwan Rais Street in Central Jakarta after Friday prayers.
They later staged a rally at the Jakarta City Hall in Merdeka Selatan Street and marched to the Presidential Palace.
From the Presidential Palace, the demonstrators planned to march to the parliamentary building via Merdeka Barat, MH Thamrin, Jenderal Sudirman and Gatot Subroto Streets.
He said that the police rerouted traffic on the streets during the demonstration to avoid traffic congestion.
More than 100 thousand people take part in the rally.
The rally was organized to protest against the Jakarta governors alleged blasphemous statement concerning the Holy Quran.
The protestors have come from various regions across the country such as East Java, West Java, Central Java, South Kalimantan and West Sumatra.
In his oration before protestors here on Friday, Kiai Jafar Siddiq, an ulema (Islamic scholar) from Jakarta, said that the peaceful rally did not have anything to do with the upcoming Jakarta gubernatorial election or other political interests.
The Muslims are united in the rally to call for legal enforcement against the alleged blasphemy, he said.
Earlier, several ulemas, who coordinated the rally, said the rally would be peaceful and was not meant to be anti-Chinese or anti-non-Muslims but was to demand legal enforcement and justice.
The Indonesian Police has said that an investigation regarding the alleged blasphemy case was still underway and asked Muslims to be patient. ***2***
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Reported by Taufik Ridwan
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Editor: Fardah Assegaf
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