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Indonesia rejects foreign intervention in Malukus
JAKARTA. July 7: Three Indonesian Christian leaders were headed for Geneva today to plead for UN help in settling the bloody Muslim-Christian warfare lit the eastern Maluku islands. as Jakarta flatly ruled out foreign intervention in the conflict, reports AFP.
"The Indonesian government strongly opposes any kind of foreign interference in Maluku."' Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab told some 83 ambassadors and other diplomats called to the ministry here.
But he said Jakarta would welcome any humanitarian assistance friendly nations could provide for the tens of thousands of victims of the conflict, which has left some 4.000 dead in the past 18 months.
"It is hoped that the international community show their understanding and support for the efforts by the Indonesian government to restore law and order in the provinces of Maluku and North Maluku and to promote reconciliation among the people in these two provinces." he said
"The government of the Republic of Indonesia also wel-
comes all international humanitarian assistance extended to (he people of Maluku
The three Christian leaders, headed by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ambon. Monseigneur Mandagi. were in Jakarta Friday and would leave "immediately.” for Geneva to meet with the UN Human Rights Commission there, the church said.
Christians have appealed to the United Nations before in writing, but the trip to Geneva is the first of Its kind since the Mu slim-Christ Ian fight ing erupted in Ambon city in January’ of 1999.
The violence has since spread throughout the Island chain, creating more than half a million refugees, by government count.
The Indonesian government declared a civil emergency in Maluku and North Maluku provinces on June 28.
But the Christian crisis centre there said that since the emergency was declared, violence had escalated in the capital city of Ambon with, on least one occasion, armed troops taking sides with the Muslims.
"We cannot see any Improvement in the situation. On (he contrary the situation Is worsening from day to day." the crisis centre said In a statement.
Shihab, who argued that the conflict was "Instigated by certain forces bent on destabilising the country." convened the Jakarta diplomatic corps after (he European parliament, sitting in Strasbourg Thursday, added its voice to calls for international intervention in (he Malukus.
In a resolution the parlia-men( called <»n (hr 15 countries of the Euro|>ean Union and the European Commission, the EU's executive arm. to examine how the international community can help restore peace In the Islands, "for example by sending international observers."
The Euro MPs also issued an urgent appeal for increased EU aid to the region and called on the Indonesian authorities to open humanitarian corridors to allow assistance to get through to people displaced by the fighting.