HTML pages designed & maintained by Alifuru67 Copyright © 1999/2001 - 1364283024 & 1367286044		Ambon Island   Ambon City        Latupatti   Want to Help? ASSOCIATED PRESS, Tuesday September 25 2001 7:20 AM ET Embassy Draws Protesters in Jakarta By DANIEL COONEY, Associated Press Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Students protested outside the U.S. embassy and a consulate office in Indonesia on Tuesday and influential Muslim clerics called on the world's most populous Islamic nation to oppose threatened military strikes against Afghanistan. The stand by the Indonesian Ulamas Council comes just days after Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri met President Bush at the White House and condemned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. ``In the perception of many Muslims in many countries, the government of the United States are terrorists,'' said Dien Samsyudin, a leading cleric. ``The United States government is arrogant and tends to play a double standard, especially the violation against human rights that happens to the Muslim community.'' In the capital, Jakarta, demonstrators marched past the embassy carrying a coffin and banners reading: ``George Bush is the king of terrorists.'' Police watched but did not intervene. Demonstrators burned a U.S. flag outside the U.S. Consulate in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city. There have been daily small protests in front of the Jakarta embassy and the Surabaya consulate. The Ulamas Council condemned the attacks in New York and Washington, but said U.S. forces should not attack Afghanistan. ``We call on all Muslims in the world to unite and gather their strength to struggle in the name of Allah or as part of a jihad (struggle or holy war) if the United States and it's allies attack Afghanistan and other Muslim countries,'' said Dien Samsyudin, a leading cleric. When asked if a ``jihad'' meant an armed conflict against the West, he said: ``No, fighting in the name of Allah can mean many things.'' Anti-American sentiment has been on the rise in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. But police say it is still confined to only a few small religious groups. Copyright © 2001 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2001  - Ambon Berdarah On-Line * http://www.go.to/ambon HTML pages designed and maintained by Alifuru67 * http://www.oocities.org/baguala67 Send your comments to alifuru67@egroups.com