{"id":20680,"date":"2026-08-30T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/30\/taliban-indonesia-religious-cooperation-jakarta\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T06:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:30:16","slug":"taliban-indonesia-religious-cooperation-jakarta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/30\/taliban-indonesia-religious-cooperation-jakarta\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Says Religious Cooperation with Indonesia to Expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has announced that Shoaib Barialai, the first political director at its Foreign Ministry, met in Jakarta with Nasaruddin Umar, Indonesia\u2019s minister of religious affairs and imam of the Istiqlal Mosque, and discussed expanding religious and cultural cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Afghan embassy in Indonesia, the meeting addressed issues including the development of bilateral relations, exchanges of experience between the two countries\u2019 religious scholars, and the holding of joint meetings and programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban said both sides also stressed strengthening ties between the religious institutions of Afghanistan and Indonesia and continuing contact and joint cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Saadullah Baloch, the acting head of Afghanistan\u2019s embassy in Jakarta, was also present at the meeting. Indonesia is the world\u2019s most populous Muslim-majority country, and the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta is considered one of the country\u2019s best-known religious centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials meet Indonesian religious leaders in Jakarta to discuss expanding religious, cultural and bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}