Muhammadiyah launches website

YOGYAKARTA: The country second largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, launched a website for its Islam propagation council, the Majelis Tabligh dan Dakwah Khusus (MTDK), at its headquarters here.

Muhammadiyah chairman Ahmad Syafii officiated at the launching ceremony for the website, www.muhammadiyah-tabligh.or.id.

During the event, Syafii expressed the hope that the website would help Muslims from all over the world access information on Muhammadiyah and the other information posted on the site.

"It is not difficult to use, is it?" Syafii said.

According to Muchlas of the MTDK, the website provides a variety of information on Muhammadiyah, such as the organization's structure, profiles of its past and present leaders and essays on Muslim scholars

"We also provide interactive media to enable them to engage in two-way communication among themselves or with us," Muchlas said. --JP