JAKARTA - Indonesia calls on India and Pakistan to exercise restraint and prioritize dialogue to resolve the crisis, as the two neighboring countries attack each other.
The crisis follows an attack on India'smen who killed 26 Hindu tourists last month.
"The Indonesian government continues to observe the development of the situation between India and Pakistan," the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted on social media X, Wednesday, May 7.
"Indonesia encourages both parties to exercise restraint and prioritize dialogue in resolving the crisis," the upload continued.
India attacked Pakistan and Pakistananiharms on Wednesday, while Pakistan said it had shot down five Indian fighter jets in the worst fighting in more than two decades between the two nuclear-armed countries.
India says it has attacked nine locations of Pakistan's "terrorist infrastructure", some of which are linked to attacks by Islamic militants against Hindu tourists.
Islamabad said six Pakistani locations were targeted, and none of these locations were militant camps. At least 26 civilians were killed and 46 others injured, a Pakistani military spokesman said.
Indian troops attacked the headquarters of the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamic militant groups, an Indian defense source told Reuters.
"India has shown considerable self-control in its target selection and execution methods," India's Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
After the Indian attack, the Indian army said in a post on X on Wednesday: "Justification is upheld."
Pemerintah Indonesia terus mengamati perkembangan situasi antara India dan Pakistan. Indonesia mendorong kedua pihak dapat menahan diri dan mengedepankan dialog dalam menyelesaikan krisis.
— MoFA Indonesia (@Kemlu_RI) May 7, 2025
The Indonesian government continues to observe the development of the situation between India and Pakistan. Indonesia encourages both parties to exercise restraint and prioritize dialogue in resolving the crisis.
On the other hand, Pakistan said Indian missiles hit three locations, with a military spokesman telling Reuters five Indian aircraft had been shot down, an unconfirmed claim by India.
However, four local government sources in India'sASH told Reuters three fighter jets fell in separate areas of the Himalayan region at night.
The three pilots have been hospitalized, the source added. Indian Defense Ministry officials could not immediately be reached to confirm the report.
Images circulating in local media showed a broken large cylinder-shaped metal chunk lying in a field at one of the accident sites. Reuters was unable to immediately verify the authenticity of the image.
Islamabad called the attack a "significant act of war" and said it had informed the UN Security Council that Pakistan was entitled to respond appropriately to India's aggression.
"All of these engagements have been carried out as defensive action," said Pakistani military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.
"Pakistan remains a very responsible country. However, we will take all necessary steps to maintain Pakistan's honor, integrity and sovereignty, by all means," he said.
The two neighboring South Asian countries also opened fire on each other and opened fire on many people at most of their de facto borders in the Himalayan peninsula, police and eyewitnesses told Reuters.
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The shooting carried out by Pakistani soldiers on the cap border killed seven civilians and injured 35 people in Indian territory, police said there.
Indian TV channels show videos of explosions, fires, thick plumes of smoke in the night sky, and people taking refuge in several places in Pakistan and Pakistan'stensies. Reuters was unable to independently verify the footage
It is known that India, which is predominantly Hindu and Pakistan, which is Muslim, has been involved in two of their three wars since independence in 1947 over its predominant Muslim populationaimani, which is claimed to be fully by both sides and partly controlled.
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