Jakarta, May 15 -- The Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs stated that it has deployed 2,199 dai (Islamic preachers) to underdeveloped, frontier, and outermost (3T) areas in 2026.

The initiative is aimed at strengthening religious understanding, instilling values of religious tolerance, and bolstering social life in the nation's most remote areas.

"The number of preachers deployed this year has exceeded our target. Out of an initial goal of 1,500, we successfully deployed 2,199 preachers to 3T areas," the ministry's Director of Islamic Information, Muchlis M. Hanafi, said in a statement in Jakarta on Friday.

The number of deployed dai has significantly increased every year. In the program's early years, only a dozen preachers part...