[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Danish Embassy in Indonesia stormed

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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 03:05:27 +0100
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      The Associated Press

      FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2006


     


     
      JAKARTA, Indonesia More than 150 hardline Muslims stormed into a 
high-rise building housing the Danish Embassy on Friday to protest the 
publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, then tore down and burned 
the country's white and red flag. 

      The rowdy protest was one of the first in Indonesia, the world's most 
populous Muslim nation, against the 12 cartoons that first appeared in a Danish 
newspaper in September. They were reprinted in several other European 
newspapers this week in a gesture of press freedom. 

      "We are not terrorists, we are not anarchists, but we are against those 
people who blaspheme Islam," one of the protesters shouted outside the 
building, which also houses several other foreign missions. 

      The demonstrators, who wore white Arabic-style robes, pelted the building 
with eggs before pushing their way past security guards into the building's 
plush lobby. 

      Shouting "God is Great," they tried to push into elevators to reach the 
mission on the building's 25th floor, but were told to stop by protest leaders. 
Some furniture was damaged in the melee, an Associated Press photographer said. 

      Before the protesters left the building in the heart of the city's 
business district, they tore the embassy's flag down and set it on fire on the 
pavement. 

      The demonstrators also stopped outside an Indonesian newspaper which 
briefly ran one of the cartoons on its Web site Thursday to illustrate its 
story on the uproar generated by them elsewhere in the Muslim world. 

      Editors of Rakyat Merdeka met some of the protesters. In a posting on the 
site later Friday, the paper said it told them that the picture was meant to 
give context to the story - something it said the demonstrators understood. It 
also published an apology to anyone who was offended by the picture. 

      Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the prophet, favorable or 
otherwise, to prevent idolatry. The drawings have prompted boycotts of Danish 
goods, bomb threats and demonstrations against Danish facilities in Muslim 
nations. 

      Indonesia's government reiterated earlier criticism of the paper's 
decision to publish. 

      "This is about insensitivity and a trend toward Islamaphobia," said 
foreign ministry spokesman Yuri Thamrin. 

      "As a democratic country we are very aware of press freedom, but we also 
believe it should not be used to slander or defame sacred religious symbols." 

      Indonesia has 220 million people, most of them moderate Muslims. 

      Friday's protest created little fanfare in a country where much larger 
demonstrations occur on a daily basis. Nearby office workers and residents 
mostly ignored the protest or stopped only briefly. 

      The protesters in Jakarta were members of the Islamic Defenders Front, 
which campaigns for Islamic law and often takes to the street against perceived 
violators of Islamic rules at home or abroad. 

      Three protesters said they were received by the Danish ambassador, and 
claimed he told them he planned to apologize to Indonesian Muslims for causing 
offense. 

      "If he doesn't, then we will demand the government kick him out," said 
protest organizer Ali Reza. 

      http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/03/news/web.0203toon.indo.php
     
         


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