RI Urged to Meet All Parties in Conflict
The Indonesian government is urged to approach and build trust with all relevant stakeholders in the Afghan conflict. This is important to ensure that all parties will be willing to attend the trilateral forum of clerics.
Afghan security forces keep watch near the site of an explosion in Kabul on March 9, 2018. A suicide bomber on foot blew himself up in Kabul\'s Shiite area on March 9, 2018, killing at least seven people, officials said, in the latest attack in the Afghan capital.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS – The Indonesian government is urged to approach and build trust with all relevant stakeholders in the Afghan conflict. This is important to ensure that all parties will be willing to attend the trilateral forum of clerics from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia, which will be held in Jakarta in late March.
The executive of Indonesia’s largest Muslim mass organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Marsudi Syuhud, said the NU had held dialogues on Afghanistan. All relevant stakeholders were willing to join the NU’s three meetings in Indonesia and in Turkey. “The NU approached [the stakeholders] one by one,” he said in Jakarta on Monday (12/3).