"Indonesia must be firm against foreign aggression taking advantage of the ongoing uprising, much more if it is of foreign design," Muzadi said here on Sunday.
He said that Indonesia must pay more attention to Libya because Indonesia could also experience the same thing as Libya in which foreign parties had been intervening.
"They can provoke uprising and then intervene or invade on the pretext of `humanitarian` ground," said the former general chairman of the Indonesian largest Muslim organization Nahdatul Ulama (NU).
In the meantime, he said, Indonesia should also continue encouraging the development of economic and political democracies in the Middle East to eradicate long lasting power there.
On the involvement of a number of Arabian states in assisting the attacks of allied forces on Libya, the former NU chairman said that the matter could not be separated from interest in oil.
He said that the Arabian countries took benefit from the Libyan crisis because their oil prices could rise from US$80 per barrel to US$110 per barrel.
"You can just calculate if Saudi Arabia, the biggest world oil producer, produces some nine million barrels per day and gain US$270 million a day. How much would it be if a month?" he wondered.
The same is true to Qatar which produces some two million barrels per day, and Bahrain as well as Kuwait which both produce some two to three million barrels per day.
"The crisis would of course bring them a sudden and big fortune ," he said.
On the other hand, oil importing countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh and Pakistan would be disrupted.
On the withdrawal of the US military fleet from the Libyan no-fly zone, Muzadi said it is another proof of the motives of the allied forces in their interest in oil.(*)A014/H-NG
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