Support For Ceasefire, Mpr Chairman Asks Indonesia To Control Until Palestine Independence

MPR chairman supports Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire

JAKARTA - The ceasefire agreement between Hamas (Palestine) and Israel starting Friday, May 21, 2012 2:00 a.m. local time was welcomed by the Chairman of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly Bambang Soesatyo and Vice Chairman of the House of Representatives Muhaimin Iskandar.

"On Tuesday (18/5), me and the Speaker of the Turkish Parliament Mustafa Sentop communicated over the phone. We emphasize the need for Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, and other Islamic Cooperation Organization (OIC) countries to urge the United Nations to actively resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Bambang Soesatyo or Bamsoet said in a statement in Jakarta, quoted by ANTARA.

The move, according to him, needs to be taken because the UN Security Council session, held on Sunday (16/5), failed to take decisive action against Israel.

Therefore, he said, in the 67th Plenary Session, the UNITED NATIONS General Assembly which began to take place at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, United States, on Thursday (20/5) night local time, there must be a clear direction in achieving Palestinian-Israeli peace based on the "two state solution".

He explained that Indonesia's stance against Israeli aggression against the Palestinians, not in order to interfere in the affairs of other countries but in order to participate in implementing a world order based on independence, lasting peace and social justice.

According to him as stated in the preamble to the Indonesian constitution, in the first paragraph of the constitution, expressly also stated that independence is the right of all nations and therefore, the colonization of the world must be abolished, because it is not in accordance with humanity and justice.

"As also stated by President Sukarno shortly after the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, as long as the independence of the Palestinian people has not been handed over to the Palestinians, then that's when the Indonesian nation stands against Israeli occupation," he said.