Pertamina and Dumai residents help Ambon

The Institute of Indonesian Mosques (IKMI) and the Board for Islamic Teaching at (BDI) state oil company Pertamina (BDI) in Dumai have raised a donation worth Rp 7.6 million from the local residents to help victims of religious conflicts in Ambon.

IKMI chairman Ibrahim Lisut said in Dumai on Wednesday that the donation, raised from a number of mosques in Dumai, had been transferred to the province branch of the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) in Maluku.

Religious conflicts between Moslems and Christians, which have taken place in Ambon for more than a yer, are continuing, spreading to several islands in the Maluku province. Hundreds of people have been killed in the bloody communual clashes.(*)