Indonesia to deploy over 14,000 officers to guard OIC summit

Indonesia will deploy over 14,000 officers from the police and military to beef up security during the fifth extraordinary summit of the world's second largest intergovernmental organization held in the country's capital starting this Sunday.

"Our objectives include preventing any possibilities of traffic accident, violent rally, clash, terrorism activity or misuse of gun fires, bomb and explosives, sabotage, road blocking, holding hostage, kidnapping, conventicle and other transnational crimes," said Colonel Czi Berlin, a spokesman for the Indonesian military, on Tuesday.

Some 14,178 officers from the army and national police will guard the Extraordinary Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit on Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif in Jakarta from March 6 to 7.

"This high-level summit has an international scale. Therefore, the success of holding this event will affect the dignity and credibility of Indonesia," the high-rank officer said.

Convened under the theme "United for a Just Solution", the summit is a response to the urgent and persistent worrying situation in Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif, which affects not only the Palestinian people, but also the world's Islamic Ummah.

Some 57 country members of the organization will explore at the summit breakthrough approaches and strategy to counter the continuous illegal occupation and apartheid policies by the Israeli government, as well as to advance the peace process and to resolve the situation in Al-Quds Al-Sharif.

The summit is expected to come forward with a resolution, which will reaffirm the principled positions of the OIC member states on the issues of Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and a Jakarta Declaration, which will present commitments of the leaders of the OIC member states to pursue concrete steps in support of Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif. Endit