Indonesia labels calls for US boycott over Jerusalem move 'misguided'

JAKARTA – Indonesia's vice president said on Tuesday that calls for a boycott of US goods over President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel were misguided - not least because of the country's reliance on US technology.

There have been a series of protests in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country since Trump's controversial move this month to reverse decades of US policy.

At a rally of about 80,000 people on Sunday, the Indonesian Ulema Council, a body of Muslim clerics, called for a boycott of US and Israeli products if Trump did not revoke his action.