Amin will visit Trenggalek, Ponorogo, Nganjuk and Surabaya on Tuesday after visiting Madiun and Ngawi on the previous day.
In Trenggalek, Ma'ruf Amin will attend a great gathering expected to be participated in by hundreds of thousands of people in Minak Sompal sport stadium.
From Trenggalek, he will proceed to Ponorogo to visit Darussalam Gontor Islamic Boarding School, Mayak Islamic Boarding School, and pay a homage at the grave to KH Hasan Bestari.
He will later visit Nganjuk to see the activities of local small and medium scale enterprises. In the afternoon, he will go to Surabaya for resting.
Ma`ruf Amin is on a campaign tour to East Java from January 21 to 24.
East Java is a major base of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) members, and Amin is optimistic that Jokowi will get 70 percent of votes in the province.
Amin said his visit to East Java is to strengthen the NU members` support for the Jokowi-Amin pair.
"So the NU support will not be divided to others," Amin, a prominent leader of NU, the country's largest Muslim organization, said.
Indonesia will organize simultaneous legislative and presidential elections on April 17, throughout the country.
The presidential election is considered by many as a repeat of the bitter 2014 presidential race, wherein incumbent Jokowi and Prabowo Subianto are again set to go head-to-head.
Seeking a second term, Jokowi, a furniture businessman, has picked Ma'ruf Amin, chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), as his partner, while retired general Subianto has chosen Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, a young and successful entrepreneur, as his running mate.
The Jokowi-Amin pair is backed by a coalition called the Working Indonesian Coalition (KIK) involving nine political parties that have set up a national campaign team for Jokowi.
Reporting by Rangga Pandu AJ, Fardah A
Reporter: Antara
Editor: Sri Haryati
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