Dakar, Senegal, Sabtu, 15 Maret 2008
Statement By President of The Republic of Indonesia At The 11th Summit of The Organization of The Islamic Conference
STATEMENT BY
H.E. DR. SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
AT
THE 11TH SUMMIT OF
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE
DAKAR, 14 MARCH 2008
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
Assalamu’alaikum wa-Rahmatullahi wa-Barakatuh
Your Excellency President Abdoulaye Wade, Chairman of the 11th Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference,
Majesties, Excellencies Presidents and Prime Ministers, Your Excellency Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the OIC,
Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I wish to join our colleagues in expressing appreciation to the Government and people of Senegal for hosting this important Summit, and for its gracious hospitality.
At the opening session yesterday, we have heard from all the speakers the extensive list of formidable global challenges faced by the Ummah today. The message that should be heard loud and clear from this summit is the OIC is determined and capable of addressing these challenges, and adapting to the rapidly changing world.
Indonesia fully supports the OIC’s Ten-Year Plan of Action that we adopted at the 2005 Extraordinary Summit in Makkah al-Mukarromah. This Plan represents a clear-eyed recognition of the realities of the world today and the resolve of the OIC to deal with these realities. Thus, we have set out to make the OIC a better and stronger Organization, a credit to Islam and a blessing to the Ummah. Indonesia also hopes that, here in Dakar, we can finalize the amendments to the OIC Charter, as part of the necessary reforms that our organization must undergo.
Mr. Chairman,
Since the OIC was established three decades ago, we have worked hard for peace. But in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan, peace and stability remain elusive.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains at the heart of the crisis in the Middle East. We in Indonesia feel the suffering of people of Palestine. We condemn in the strongest terms, the military aggression that Israel continues to inflict on the Palestinians. It is a grave violation of international law, humanitarian law, and the common sense of justice of all decent persons.
We call on the international community to send humanitarian assistance to Palestine. We urge all parties on the ground to exercise restraint and refrain from actions that may undermine the peace process. At the same time, we appeal to the Palestinian factions to engage in dialogue, since they cannot have peace with Israel unless they have peace among themselves.
This problem has festered for so long because the solutions that have been tried lacked a global approach. But we saw a glimmer of hope late last year at the Annapolis Conference, when the parties agreed to negotiate towards the establishment a Palestinian state by the end of 2008. The process, however, cannot succeed if violence continues on the ground. We must quickly silence the guns as we intensify the quest for a just and peaceful solution.
An important part of that solution must be the formation of a viable Palestinian economy, if peace is to be durable. We must therefore find ways to rebuild the devastated economy of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For this purpose, Indonesia, together with South Africa, will convene later this year the Afro-Asian Conference for Capacity Building of the Palestinian people.
Mr. Chairman,
The OIC is a unique collaboration of 57 countries. Our combined population of over one billion people covers three continents. Muslim countries supply 70 per cent of the world’s energy requirements and 40 percent of its raw materials exports.
We are therefore in the best position to contribute to the attainment of global peace and security and the eventual conquest of poverty.
We are very much capable of contributing more to peace and security, particularly through mediation. For instance, the OIC successfully mediated the peace process between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front. It was Indonesia’s privilege to chair the OIC committee that mediated that process, which ended two decades of separatist rebellion in southern Philippines.
But for our global initiatives to be credible, we must first prove ourselves effective at promoting peace and reconciliation in our respective nation building efforts. Protracted conflicts in Muslim societies bring shame to the Ummah and tarnish the good name of Islam. Thus, in many circles outside the Muslim world, Islam has been unjustly associated with violence.
We must disabuse the world of this terrible misconception. We must heal it of the disease of Islamophobia. In this regard, we must strongly denounce the irreverent portrayal of Islam and its sacred symbols in mass media. But we must not resort to violence—because that would prove our detractors right. Instead, we must reach out to the rest of the world through dialogue—inter-faith, inter-cultural and inter-civilizational.
We must involve and work with the mass media in this outreach—and help the media reform themselves so that they become better instruments of mutual understanding, harmony and community building. In cooperation with Norway, Indonesia has organized a Global Inter-Media Dialogue. We intend to sustain this kind of dialogue.
Such efforts at dialogue will not succeed, however, if we do not put behind them the force of our example—by behaving strictly as Muslims in whatever we do. We must strive for good governance and attend to our democratic deficit.
Becoming a democracy, of course, is easier said than done. Remaining a democracy is even more difficult. I speak from the experience of Indonesia.
In the midst of the devastation and turbulence of the Asian Crisis, we launched an era of democratic reform ten years ago. We had to undergo tremendous pressure as a result of a surge in the people’s expectations that democracy will deliver a better life for them.
Yet, we persevered. Indonesia has now transformed itself into the world’s third largest democacy. We believe that our experience has proven once and for all that Islam and democracy are not only compatible: they can flourish together. Among our strongest advocates of democracy are political parties with strong Islamic platforms.
Mr. Chairman,
History tells us that Muslims in the past contributed immensely to the march of civilization through groundbreaking achievements in the sciences as well as in the arts. This was made possible by an environment of intellectual openness in the course of just and orderly governance of a pluralistic society.
Today, unfortunately, we are reduced to taking a defensive position and explaining ourselves to a world largely ignorant of the values of Islam. We must take the initiative. We must project the highest values of Islam and enlarge our contributions to human civilization.
For this purpose, we must in the first place improve the plight of the Muslim peoples and empower them. This means extensive and intensive economic cooperation among ourselves. This entails pooling of resources and plugging of the development gaps all over the Muslim world.
We need to launch investment schemes and cooperation in science and technology. We can optimize intra-Islamic trade by negotiating and establishing Islamic free trade areas. We can build on economic cooperation already being carried out, such as the group of Developing Eight, which is composed of members of this Organization.
One very promising initiative we have taken is the establishment of the OIC Solidarity Fund aimed at helping improve the plight of economically distressed population within the Ummah. We in Indonesia totally support this initiative and we intend to contribute to it.
Considering the huge human, natural and financial resources that we can mobilize, we can create a tremendous force for good. That will be a force of Islamic origin for the conquest of poverty and for the attainment of global peace and harmony.
When I say harmony, I mean not only harmony between and among nations but also between humankind and the rest of Allah’s creation. This means striking a balance between our drive to create economic wealth for ourselves and our future generations, and the need to preserve the world’s natural resources over which we are the stewards appointed by Allah. In the context of the world situation today, this means sustainable development in the face of climate change.
Last December, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that was held in Indonesia, adopted the Bali Roadmap toward an eventual post-2012 protocol on climate change. I trust that we in the OIC will all work hard with the rest of the international community to attain this goal.
The possibility of an Islamic Renaissance lies before us. But we need first to become the more effective Organization envisioned in our Ten-year Plan. We need to get our act together as an Organization of Muslim nations.
When the Islamic Renaissance comes, it will be the natural fruit of a peaceful and constructive jihad.
Thank you.
Wassalamu’alaikum wa-Rahmatullahi wa-Barakatuh
Statement By President of The Republic of Indonesia At The 11th Summit of The Organization of The Islamic Conference
STATEMENT BY
H.E. DR. SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
AT
THE 11TH SUMMIT OF
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE
DAKAR, 14 MARCH 2008
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
Assalamu’alaikum wa-Rahmatullahi wa-Barakatuh
Your Excellency President Abdoulaye Wade, Chairman of the 11th Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference,
Majesties, Excellencies Presidents and Prime Ministers, Your Excellency Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the OIC,
Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I wish to join our colleagues in expressing appreciation to the Government and people of Senegal for hosting this important Summit, and for its gracious hospitality.
At the opening session yesterday, we have heard from all the speakers the extensive list of formidable global challenges faced by the Ummah today. The message that should be heard loud and clear from this summit is the OIC is determined and capable of addressing these challenges, and adapting to the rapidly changing world.
Indonesia fully supports the OIC’s Ten-Year Plan of Action that we adopted at the 2005 Extraordinary Summit in Makkah al-Mukarromah. This Plan represents a clear-eyed recognition of the realities of the world today and the resolve of the OIC to deal with these realities. Thus, we have set out to make the OIC a better and stronger Organization, a credit to Islam and a blessing to the Ummah. Indonesia also hopes that, here in Dakar, we can finalize the amendments to the OIC Charter, as part of the necessary reforms that our organization must undergo.
Mr. Chairman,
Since the OIC was established three decades ago, we have worked hard for peace. But in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan, peace and stability remain elusive.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains at the heart of the crisis in the Middle East. We in Indonesia feel the suffering of people of Palestine. We condemn in the strongest terms, the military aggression that Israel continues to inflict on the Palestinians. It is a grave violation of international law, humanitarian law, and the common sense of justice of all decent persons.
We call on the international community to send humanitarian assistance to Palestine. We urge all parties on the ground to exercise restraint and refrain from actions that may undermine the peace process. At the same time, we appeal to the Palestinian factions to engage in dialogue, since they cannot have peace with Israel unless they have peace among themselves.
This problem has festered for so long because the solutions that have been tried lacked a global approach. But we saw a glimmer of hope late last year at the Annapolis Conference, when the parties agreed to negotiate towards the establishment a Palestinian state by the end of 2008. The process, however, cannot succeed if violence continues on the ground. We must quickly silence the guns as we intensify the quest for a just and peaceful solution.
An important part of that solution must be the formation of a viable Palestinian economy, if peace is to be durable. We must therefore find ways to rebuild the devastated economy of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For this purpose, Indonesia, together with South Africa, will convene later this year the Afro-Asian Conference for Capacity Building of the Palestinian people.
Mr. Chairman,
The OIC is a unique collaboration of 57 countries. Our combined population of over one billion people covers three continents. Muslim countries supply 70 per cent of the world’s energy requirements and 40 percent of its raw materials exports.
We are therefore in the best position to contribute to the attainment of global peace and security and the eventual conquest of poverty.
We are very much capable of contributing more to peace and security, particularly through mediation. For instance, the OIC successfully mediated the peace process between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front. It was Indonesia’s privilege to chair the OIC committee that mediated that process, which ended two decades of separatist rebellion in southern Philippines.
But for our global initiatives to be credible, we must first prove ourselves effective at promoting peace and reconciliation in our respective nation building efforts. Protracted conflicts in Muslim societies bring shame to the Ummah and tarnish the good name of Islam. Thus, in many circles outside the Muslim world, Islam has been unjustly associated with violence.
We must disabuse the world of this terrible misconception. We must heal it of the disease of Islamophobia. In this regard, we must strongly denounce the irreverent portrayal of Islam and its sacred symbols in mass media. But we must not resort to violence—because that would prove our detractors right. Instead, we must reach out to the rest of the world through dialogue—inter-faith, inter-cultural and inter-civilizational.
We must involve and work with the mass media in this outreach—and help the media reform themselves so that they become better instruments of mutual understanding, harmony and community building. In cooperation with Norway, Indonesia has organized a Global Inter-Media Dialogue. We intend to sustain this kind of dialogue.
Such efforts at dialogue will not succeed, however, if we do not put behind them the force of our example—by behaving strictly as Muslims in whatever we do. We must strive for good governance and attend to our democratic deficit.
Becoming a democracy, of course, is easier said than done. Remaining a democracy is even more difficult. I speak from the experience of Indonesia.
In the midst of the devastation and turbulence of the Asian Crisis, we launched an era of democratic reform ten years ago. We had to undergo tremendous pressure as a result of a surge in the people’s expectations that democracy will deliver a better life for them.
Yet, we persevered. Indonesia has now transformed itself into the world’s third largest democacy. We believe that our experience has proven once and for all that Islam and democracy are not only compatible: they can flourish together. Among our strongest advocates of democracy are political parties with strong Islamic platforms.
Mr. Chairman,
History tells us that Muslims in the past contributed immensely to the march of civilization through groundbreaking achievements in the sciences as well as in the arts. This was made possible by an environment of intellectual openness in the course of just and orderly governance of a pluralistic society.
Today, unfortunately, we are reduced to taking a defensive position and explaining ourselves to a world largely ignorant of the values of Islam. We must take the initiative. We must project the highest values of Islam and enlarge our contributions to human civilization.
For this purpose, we must in the first place improve the plight of the Muslim peoples and empower them. This means extensive and intensive economic cooperation among ourselves. This entails pooling of resources and plugging of the development gaps all over the Muslim world.
We need to launch investment schemes and cooperation in science and technology. We can optimize intra-Islamic trade by negotiating and establishing Islamic free trade areas. We can build on economic cooperation already being carried out, such as the group of Developing Eight, which is composed of members of this Organization.
One very promising initiative we have taken is the establishment of the OIC Solidarity Fund aimed at helping improve the plight of economically distressed population within the Ummah. We in Indonesia totally support this initiative and we intend to contribute to it.
Considering the huge human, natural and financial resources that we can mobilize, we can create a tremendous force for good. That will be a force of Islamic origin for the conquest of poverty and for the attainment of global peace and harmony.
When I say harmony, I mean not only harmony between and among nations but also between humankind and the rest of Allah’s creation. This means striking a balance between our drive to create economic wealth for ourselves and our future generations, and the need to preserve the world’s natural resources over which we are the stewards appointed by Allah. In the context of the world situation today, this means sustainable development in the face of climate change.
Last December, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that was held in Indonesia, adopted the Bali Roadmap toward an eventual post-2012 protocol on climate change. I trust that we in the OIC will all work hard with the rest of the international community to attain this goal.
The possibility of an Islamic Renaissance lies before us. But we need first to become the more effective Organization envisioned in our Ten-year Plan. We need to get our act together as an Organization of Muslim nations.
When the Islamic Renaissance comes, it will be the natural fruit of a peaceful and constructive jihad.
Thank you.
Wassalamu’alaikum wa-Rahmatullahi wa-Barakatuh
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