The Indonesian government hoped that efforts to enforce the UNSC Resolution would not cause civilian deaths.Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government hopes the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 on a no-fly zone over Libya that has been followed up with multinational air assaults will not hurt innocent people.
"The Indonesian government has all along emphasized the importance for the international community to protect innocent civilians in Libya and the protection given by the international community must not run against international law and also be in line with the UN Charter," Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said here on Monday.
He said UNSC Resolution 1973 had the potential of protecting civilians if carried out fully and correctly.
"However we certainly wish the problem could be solved peacefully through dialogs and democratic means prioritizing the rights of all Libyans to determine their future," he said.
The Indonesian government hoped that efforts to enforce the UNSC Resolution would not cause civilian deaths. "We wish innocent civilians be protected and certainly in giving the protection we must not at the same create new violence because the conflict should resolved in a peaceful way," he said.
One of Indonesia`s largest Islamic organizations meanwhile has expressed opposition to foreign intervention in the political crisis in Libya.
"PBNU (the executive board of the Nahdlatul Ulama organization) condemned and strongly opposed foreign intervention for whatever reasons, moreover military actions," its chief, KH Said Aqil Siroj said at his office here on Monday.
He said military action by western countries although it was based upon a UN resolution would only create violence, infrastructure destruction and bloodshed including among civilians.
"The military action would be fatal for the country and nation concerned as has been shown in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq where it has left political problems until now besides reducing those countries` sovereignty," he said.
PBNU has called for the settlement of political crisis in Libya, Yaman, Bahrain and other Middle Easter countries through political and diplomatic means and avoiding military action.
It calls on Moslem countries and countries with Moslem majority grouped in the Organization of Islamic Conference including Indonesia to immediately take joint efforts to proactively participate in settling the conflicts.
He said PBNU appreciates the aspirations of the people of Libya, Yaman and Bahrain that had demanded political changes.
The demand is materialization of awareness of their political social and economic rights that had so far been neglected which had then encouraged the growth of their sovereign awareness, he said.
"Countries in that region both ruled under the system of republic or abssolut kingdom could not neglect the aspirations moreover suppress the political demand," he said.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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