Sri Chinmoy followers to visit RI

Sri Chinmoy followers to visit RI

JAKARTA: About 900 followers of Sri Chinmoy, an Indian peace
campaigner in the United States who holds lectures on
interreligious issues at the United Nations headquarters every
few weeks, plan to visit Jakarta, Denpasar, Solo in Central Java,
and Yogyakarta, as well as other cities across the country.

Damai Sejahtera Foundation chairman Hayono Suyono said on
Monday that Vice President Hamzah Haz would welcome the entourage
next week.

Hayono, formerly coordinating minister for people's welfare,
said Chinmoy's followers would visit villages and temples and
meditate.

Hayono said Hamzah, also chairman of the Muslim-based United
Development Party (PPP), hoped that Chinmoy's followers would
learn about Indonesian hospitality and spread it through the
world.

Indonesia has been rocked by communal and religious conflicts,
in which thousands of innocent people have been killed and
thousands of others displaced. -- Antara