Metrotvnews.com, Jakarta: Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cancelled his 3 days trip to Netherlands. President could not accept treatment that held the hearing to decide the arrest of him as the President of Indonesia concerning the human rights violations (Human Rights).
“In fact, the visit at the invitation of Prime Minister and the Queen of the Netherlands,” the President said while giving a press statement at the VIP room Halim Perdanakusuma Airforce base.
“This I can not be accepted,” the president said. The President explained that he did not want his departure to the Netherlands will bring misunderstanding and the perception that is not good.
The President promised to immediately write a formal letter to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. “Why do I canceled,” the president said. A visit to the Netherlands will still be performed until the problem clearly. However, the President did not say when.
The President explained that the planned visit to the Netherlands have actually been planned in 2007 and 2008. But the visit did not happen. Visits this time actually have an important agenda, particularly the increase cooperation in economy, trade, tourism, education, environment and agriculture.
However, during the hours he was about to depart in the Netherlands there are developments in the situation that forced him to behave and make decisions. The President explained, in Denhag no movement and demands to the court a question of human rights in Indonesia. It was proposed Dutch citizens and organizations separatist South Maluku Republic (RMS). The head of state protested and threatened, the President said, was common. But because this time there is a court held the arrest of the president during his visit.
Emir Saleh 