---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 Free Email @KotakPos.com visit: http://my.kotakpos.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- ANTARA, DESEMBER 6, 1999 OIC NEVER SUPPORTS SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS IN INDONESIA CAIRO, Des 5 (ANTARA)--The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) will unlikely support separatist movements in Indonesia because the world's Moslem biggest contry still plays a decisive role in global politics, experts said at a seminar here Sunday. The seminar themed 'Challenge of Moslem Countries in the Global Arena' focused on separatist movements in a number of Moslem countries including Indonesia, Sudan, Turkey and Iraq. Prof. Dr Salam Ahmad Bayyumi, who acted as key speaker at the seminar told ANTARA on the sidelines of a lunch he predicted Indonesia would emerge as one of the world's influential nations after it came out of the current crisis. "I think the Islamic world, including Arab League members is aware that Indonesia now seems to be powerless because of the crisis. But in the future, it will emerge as one of the world's influential countries," he said. Therefore, the Islamic world would unlikely throw weight behind the separatist movements and would always support Indonesia's political stance. But he did not rule out the possibility that foreign parties had fanned the separatist movements to secede from the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. "I think certain countries have political interests and wishing to disintegrate Indonesia. But I believe the foreign parties fanning the separatist movements are not from the Islamic world or Arab countries," he said. "So far, the OIC and Arab world have never supported separatist movements in Turkey and Iraq. The same also applies to Indonesia," he said. Asked to comment on the allegation that Libya is behind the separatist movement in Indonesian province of Aceh, he said he had heard of the allegation through the media but he did not know it exactly. A few months before assuming the presidential post, Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid in an interview with Al-Hayat, an influential newspaper in the Middle East, alleged that Libya provided the separatist movement in Aceh with military training, which the Libyan Embassy in Jakarta denied. Meanwhile, Dr Gehad Muntasser raised separatist movements in a number of Islamic countries during the seminar. "The separatist movements which currently affect the Islamic world including Indonesia, Sudan, Turkey and Iraq, are really discontented towards their central government," he said. The separatist movements could be quelled through open and honest dialogs between the separatist groups and the central government, he said. (E-Mail/KKR-01/NN01/00:33/INT-NG/OO:49/TB06) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 9 Dec 1999 jam 01:26:11 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
