[Indonesia called for international help Friday to combat the bird flu virus that has killed six people.] We know that bird flu is a very dangerous disease, ... The virus mutates easily ... and moves very quickly across national boundaries.

We have to check and make sure whether the U.S. has given the information to Indonesia or not,

Indonesia is also a democracy that upholds freedom of expression, but such freedom cannot be used as a pretext to insult a religion.

The government of Indonesia is surprised and disappointed and deeply deploring this decision by the Australian Department of Immigration.

Polio is not only an issue in Indonesia ... but it's an international issue. That virus, just as it came here from the African continent, could now go from here to a neighboring country and become implanted in that country if protection rates for polio were low.

We have conquered the SARS epidemic in 2003, and we will surely conquer the bird flu virus,