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Muslim Activists Protest Outside the Singapore Embassy in Jakarta VOA News 25 Feb 2002 10:05 UTC 
More than 100 Muslim activists demonstrated outside the Singaporean Embassy in Jakarta Monday to protest claims by Singapore's senior minister that terrorist leaders are operating freely in Indonesia.
Protesters from two hard-line Muslim groups chanted slogans and set fire to a Singaporean flag. No violence was reported.
Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew was quoted last week as saying that, unlike other Southeast Asian nations, Indonesia has failed to arrest suspected terrorists.
Dozens of suspected militants arrested recently in Malaysia and Singapore are alleged to have links to an Indonesia-based Muslim cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir.
He heads a small Islamic group, the Indonesian Mujahidin Council, but Malaysian authorities believe he is also the leader of an extremist Islamic group which is reported to be linked to other radical groups in Southeast Asia.
He has been questioned by Indonesian authorities, but has not been detained.
Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.
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