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JAKARTA - Indonesia's Foreign Minister said on Wednesday that radical groups around the world were exploiting public Islamic anger over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and the reaction was now ``out of proportion.'' As scattered protests continued in the country, police said they were questioning two editors at a local news magazine that reprinted several of the caricatures to accompany a story on the uproar generated by them.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has condemned the drawings.
``The cartoons have hurt the Islamic community, so it has added to ammunition for (global) radical groups to exploit the situation and the whole thing has got out of proportion,'' Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, told reporters. He did not elaborate.
Two editors at Peta magazine, which has a circulation of 3,000, were being questioned on Wednesday, said detective Suwondo Nainggolan in Bekasi, a town on the eastern outskirts of Jakarta where the magazine is based. ``We are still in the process of determining whether or not publishing the cartoons is a crime,'' he said. Peta's Chief Editor, Abdul Wahad Abdi, has apologized for the decision to run the cartoons, The Jakarta Post reported.
``No maliciousness was intended,'' it quoted Abdi as saying. ``We never intended to insult or disgrace Islam.'' Demonstrations in Indonesia against the cartoons have been small by local standards. On Thursday, a handful of Muslim students rallied outside the presidential palace. Similar-sized demonstrations occurred in two other towns, local media reported.
The cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September but have since been reprinted elsewhere, have triggered angry protests throughout the Islamic world. Muslims were angered because Islam prohibits any depiction of the prophet to prevent idolatry. They also saw them as racist. Some newspapers said they reprinted the cartoons to illustrate stories about the controversy, while others said they did so to support the principle of free speech.
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Wat lijken HW en JP toch veel op elkaar!
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Wat lijken HW en JP toch veel op elkaar!
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Misschien J.P. zijn broer?
Of heeft de vader van JP tijdens de politionele actie een mooi Indisch popje bevrucht? 
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Misschien J.P. zijn broer?
Of heeft de vader van JP tijdens de politionele actie een mooi Indisch popje bevrucht?
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In English please 
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In English please
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hoezo, JP zijn broer? hebben ze dan ook een HARRY POTTER in Indonesie rondhangen? Echt zielig... 
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hoezo, JP zijn broer? hebben ze dan ook een HARRY POTTER in Indonesie rondhangen? Echt zielig...
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