Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Terrorism has no place in any religion, the leader of one of Indonesia's largest Muslim organizations said at a prayer gathering Monday for victims of the recent Jakarta hotel bombings.

"Religion is not terror and terror is not religion. What's happening is that a few people misunderstand and misinterpret the teachings," said Nadhlatul Ulama chairman Hasyim Muzadi.

"So nobody should think, for example, that Muslims carried out terror like Friday's bombing, or Christians did the same thing in Belfast [Northern Ireland], Hindus did it in South Ayodya [India], or Buddhists in Thailand," he added. "Please don't think the perpetrators represent their religions."

Leaders of several religious communities gathered at the interfaith service to memorialize Friday's suicide bombings at the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriot hotels in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, which killed nine people and left more than 50 injured.

After the gathering, participants brought flowers to the nearby bombing sites.