Pope expected in Indonesia in September. President Joko Widodo had sent an invitation to the Pope in June 2022 to visit Indonesia to promote religious tolerance.
According to the American Pew Research Center, some 242 million Indonesians, or 87% of the population, are Muslims while 29 million are Christians, including 8.5 million Catholics. Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has made 44 trips abroad, including the latest to Marseille, in the south of France, in September 2023.