With their `anti-establishment` agenda, a small number of people within Wikileaks have put governments in various parts of the world in serious difficulties"
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday finally commented on Wikileaks` dislcosures , saying they had caused serious trouble to many governments in the world.

The President referred Wikileaks in his address at the opening session of the Jakarta International Defense Dialogue here.

WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistle-blowers.

The head of state said Wikileaks was an non-state actor which had played a bigger role along with the media, non-governmental organizations, civil society, and trans-national enterprises.

They all had the potential to change the world order and force the world (community) to change its views, he said.

" With their `anti-establishment` agenda, a small number of people within Wikileaks have put governments in various parts of the world in serious difficulties with political and security implications," he said.

In the Indonesian political context, Wikileaks had become popular following the publication of The Age`s news story titled "Yudhoyono`Abused Power`" on March 11, 2011.

That Australian daily newspaper quoted the contents of secret US diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks as accusing President Yudhoyono of being "in substantial corruption and abuse of power".

This accusation itself was labeled "rubbish" and had strongly been rejected by various elements in the Indonesian government and society.

The opening session that such top regional figures as East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao and Singapore`s Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean also attended, President Yudhoyono also touched on the world`s geopolitical situation.

He said the world`s geopolitical situation remained "fluid" with unpredictable future.

The precise picture of the new world order remained unclear and without having name, the head of state said in fluent English.

Apart from that, President Yudhoyono said the world community had known that, at present, the transfers of power had happened with the emergency of developing countries with good economic growth, military resources and diplomacy.

He said new players would emerge with changing playing fields. For example, the Asia Pacific region was currently in a process of finding a new balancing in an effort to reach a better regional stability and more significant international roles.

The head of state also reminded JIDD participants of 34 countries in the Asia Pacific region of the world`s more complicated sources of conflicts.

Those sources of conflicts were no more just related to the ideological differences, which were the main characteristic of Cold War, or border and territorial disputes he said.

"This time, various issues can directly trigger conflicts rooted on religious and identity differences," he said.

The world, he said, was undergoing the increasing intolerance cases in lots of developing countries, besides the losing trust on government that could trigger political and economic conflicts.

In response to these trends, President Yudhoyono called on the JIDD participants to keep improving their conflict resolution capability with creativity and new view points.



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