Jakarta: The government maintained its position Tuesday denied sending Indonesian troops to the Gaza Strip, despite pressure from some Muslim groups to send jihadis to conquer in the Middle East instead.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said sending jihadists to the Gaza Strip to help fight against Hamas, Israel would not improve the situation, which is much more efficient Indonesia could take to help escalate the situation.
Some Islamic groups hard, including the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), said they would send volunteers to the Gaza Strip under the banner of jihad and urged the government to support them.
"Is jihad leyden an effective, we must ask ourselves whether the Gaza Strip that is what they need, and more likely, they (not). There are other more effective ways to help ... So far, sending Jihadists is not an option, "Minister of Foreign Affairs Hassan Wirayuda said.
AFP said Tuesday that the 11-day-old Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has slain at least 635 Palestinians and injured more than 2900.
The toll rose Tuesday when Israeli fire hit three schools, killing at least 45 people.
Speaking in his annual statement to the press, Hassan said that the Gaza Strip, the most in need of medicines and medical assistance.
"We look at the possibility of sending medical personnel to hospitals in the Sinai region in Egypt to the border with Gaza. We are waiting for permission to Egypt, and the President instructed the Minister of Health to gather volunteers," said Hassan.
Despite the awareness that the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has nothing to do with religion, Islamic groups in Jakarta have hype of the conflict between the two religious groups, so the way for the Islamic Party of Justice on the basis of Prosperity (PKS) and other Islamic groups to seize the momentum for the elections in April.
Observers on Tuesday criticized the nationalist parties not to cry Islam calls for groups to send volunteers for the war, which was defined by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday as a shock to the sovereignty of territory between Israel and Palestine, and not a religious issue .
"The nationalist groups should be more active in their view, Indonesia's voice is stronger than the (world) believes that a pluralistic democracy in Indonesia instead of Islam," the University international relations expert from Indonesia Hariyadi Wirawan said.
He said that Indonesia would be more pluralistic sympathy of large non-Muslim countries, such as the members of the European Union (EU) and strong defense of human rights in the world that the attacks as a territory dispute and a tragedy for the rights of man and not an attack against Islam.
PKS, the FPI and the spotlight HTI seized immediately after the Israeli attacks began when groups of thousands of supporters gathered in Jakarta and other major cities in the country rally against Israel and the U.S. United States.
The other political parties and nationalist groups do not participate in events and media has refused to state their views on the conflict.
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