JAKARTA, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- The government of Indonesia has taken steps to thwart penetration of extremism to universities across the archipelagic nation.
The move was made following findings of evidence that several Indonesian university students in domestic and abroad have engaged in terrorist activities.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Friday met with 16 rectors of universities, stressing that campus must be free from radicalism, according to Indonesian Minister of Research and High Education Muhammad Nasir.
"I have ordered rectors to make a list of those implicating in radical groups activities," he said at the State Palace.
Cooperation with the country's counter-terrorism agency would be undertaken to prevent the spread of the extremism to campuses, Nasir added.
A meeting of rectors from all universities in the country is scheduled to be held at the end of next month in Bali in a bid to strengthen commitment of the universities to upholding the country's basic principle and combating the extremism, the minister said.
The meeting will find the way to step up the implementation of the principle in the behaviors of students, he added.
"There has already had a lesson of Pancasila, but the principle must be well implemented in the behaviors," Nasir added.
Pancasila is Indonesia's state ideology, which includes belief in god, the unity of the country, social justice and democracy, and which enshrines religious diversity in an officially secular system.
