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52Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Indonesiaaction taken by the central and local government. The mostimportant among all, are goodwill of the both side to end theconflict and create reconciliation.One thing I would like to stress here, based on the experienceof Indonesia was the immediate political changes together withthe economic crisis is a potential matters that could threatennot only the national stability, but also its territorial integrity. Itis true that Indonesia has the experience in solving theseproblems alike in the past, and I hope that we could also solvethe problems we are facing now, though it needs a long period.But considering the complexities of the Indonesian problem,particularly in the economic field, we sure that we cannot solvethe problems alone. Support and cooperation from other Asiancountries and important national stability and save guardingof the Indonesian territorial integrity should have a big impactto the stabilities of the South East Asia region, the same as inSouth Philippines. Political crises in the Mindanao border couldtrigger new strain in this border.One more things I would like to stress here in, invite thebackground the Indonesian experience about the religiouscommunities in Asia. As I have mentioned before, religiousdoctrines has a big influence in developing human civilization.Of course, in understanding the religious communities weshould differ between normative doctrine of religion and thesocio-historical facts of the religious community. Normatively,Islamic teachings adhered by the Indonesian community issimilar with Islam adhered by people in the Middle East andother Muslim countries, as is the Catholic adhered by the peopleof North Ireland with the Catholic in Spain, France, Korea,Philippine and Latin American countries. But the impact of