KISDI protests newspaper

KISDI protests newspaper

JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesia Committee for World Moslems
Solidarity (KISDI) has launched a protest against a national
newspaper claiming that its editorial on violence in Algeria had
slandered Islam.

Ahmad Sumargono, KISDI's vice chairman, led a small delegation
of 10-people yesterday to the Ministry of Information to submit a
protest letter to Minister of Information R Hartono.

The letter was received by the minister's personal secretary.

KISDI claimed that the Kompas newspaper's Aug. 28 and Sept. 2
editorials, which said the sadistic butchering in Algeria was
carried out by the Islamic Salvation Front, was libel.

"This is cornering Moslems as if Moslems are brutal," Ahmad
told reporters, adding that "up till now, there has been no claim
of responsibility for the violence from any party."

Ahmad called on the Ministry of Information to follow up
KISDI's protest.

KISDI also called news reports from Algiers in The Jakarta
Post as "reckless".

About 1,500 people have been killed in attacks attributed to
militants since early June in Algeria. (10)