Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Wiranto held a number of meetings with other ministers during a two-week period to discuss how to tackle the Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) problem. President Joko Widodo asked Wiranto to study organizations that encourage ideologies agains Pancasila, the national ideology.

Police reports show that more and more community groups are rejecting the HTI, with recent incidents of physical conflict