Vice President Ma'ruf Amin Conveys Indonesia's Role In Peace For Muslim Countries

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Indonesian Vice President Ma'ruf Amin said that Indonesia continues to play its role in creating world peace, including Muslim countries that are still hit by conflicts and crises.

"In accordance with the constitutional mandate, Indonesia continues to take part in efforts to create world peace, not least in Muslim countries that are still hit by conflicts and crises such as what our brothers and sisters have experienced in Afghanistan," said the vice president via video conference from the vice president's official residence in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Tuesday, January 25.

Regarding efforts to reconcile the conflict in Afghanistan, the Vice President said that Indonesia had held a Trilateral Ulema Conference on Afghanistan which was attended by scholars from three countries, namely Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia. The meeting also involved parties from the Taliban for dialogue related to peace in Afghanistan.

"Indonesia has initiated a forum for meeting scholars from four parties, Afghanistan as the ruling government at that time, the Taliban group, clerics from Pakistan, and scholars from Indonesia," he said.

During the meeting, the 2018 Bogor Declaration was produced, as an initial step for the Afghanistan peace dialogue, which became a reference in the International Conference of Ulama in the World by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Furthermore, in December 2021, the Vice President said that Indonesia had also held meeting to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.

"In December 2021, the Indonesian government initiated a meeting to agree on the provision of humanitarian assistance located in Islamabad, Pakistan to Afghanistan in connection with hunger and other social problems," he said.

Indonesia's efforts to create global peace will also continue in early 2022 by sending humanitarian aid to the Afghan people to respond to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the country.

"The government and the people of Indonesia are concerned and hope that this assistance can ease the burden on about 23 million people who are threatened with hunger, especially around 3,000,000 Afghan children who are threatened with malnutrition," he said.