Aa Gym to launch mass campaign

JAKARTA: The Nation Building Inner-Self Movement, which has attracted 1.1 million volunteers from across the archipelago since August, will be launched in Jakarta on Sunday at Medan Merdeka Square, Central Jakarta.

Bearing slogans such as "Start with oneself, start from the smallest step and start right now", the movement aims to raise the nation out of its moral crisis, said initiator Abdullah Gymnastiar, a popular Muslim cleric known as Aa Gym.

Some 50,000 teachers and students, as well as city administration staff, plan to attend the launch, which will run from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The campaign was first launched on Sept. 12 to a crowd of 10,000 at Tegalega Field, Bandung. -- JP