The rally was organized by the top Islamic authority the Indonesian Ulema Council and supported by the government as well as several other Islamic organizations.

Police said 80,000 protesters gathered at the National Monument, a tower that looms over central Jakarta, waving the Palestine flag and banners reading “Free Palestine” as they chanted “God is greatest!”

“This is my solidarity as a Muslim to my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters in Palestine… the Al-Aqsa mosque, a historical mosque for Muslims, is there (in Jerusalem),” said Hermawati, from the nearby city of Bogor, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, AFP reported.

Dressed mostly in white, the demonstrators urged the US to change its decision.

Indonesia’s religious affairs minister and Jakarta’s governor were among those at the protest site just a few meters from the US embassy, which was cordoned off behind coils of razor wire.

“Isn’t it the government’s job to work on the aspiration of the majority of Indonesians? And the government has tried its best so Palestine can achieve its rights and independence,” Religious Affairs minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin told the crowd.

Indonesia has condemned President Donald Trump’s decision, with President Joko Widodo joining other world Islamic leaders last Wednesday in an emergency summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul.

The leaders urged world powers to recognize occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of the “State of Palestine” and declared Trump’s decision “null and void legally”.

The UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution which would find that any change to the status of Jerusalem has no legal effect and must be reversed.

“We have taken note of reports in some Afghan media of statements regarding Russia’s ‘support’ for the Taliban movement by President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai during his recent trip to Paktia Province,” the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Information and Press Department said in a statement released on Monday.

“We consider unacceptable such statements by the head of state of friendly Afghanistan. We recall that Afghan officials have confirmed at different levels that such accusations against Moscow are groundless,” it added.

The Russian Foreign Ministry statement noted that “On the contrary, Moscow is rendering multiple forms of assistance to Kabul, including help in consolidating the combat capabilities of its national security forces, and is actively facilitating inter-Afghan dialogue with a view to establishing peace and stability in that country as soon as possible.”

“We urge Afghan leaders not to follow along with the anti-Russian hysteria fanned by some Western media.”

Afghan president during his visit to southeastern Paktia province on Sunday accused Pakistan and Russia of supporting the Taliban by providing them with weapons, training and money.

“The Taliban are accepting guns from those who have blood on their hand of 1.5 million Afghans,” Ghani said in a reference to Russia.