JAKARTA, March 30 (UPI) -- More than 100,000 Indonesians staged a massive anti-war protest rally outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta Sunday, denouncing the American-led coalition attacks on Iraq.
The demonstrators called for U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be brought before the International Court of Justice and charged with crimes against humanity.
Other demonstrations have continued across the Islamic world -- and also in some non-Muslim countries.
China Sunday allowed university students to demonstrate against the war in Beijing, but more unusual was an illegal demonstration that occurred later in the Chinese capital.
In Tehran, Cairo, Amman and other Arab capitals, as well as in non-Arab countries like Pakistan and Malaysia, demonstrations have continued since Friday, in most cases orderly and under tight control of the government.
Muslim protestors in India and non-Muslim demonstrators in South Korea -- which has sent 700 engineering and medical personnel to Iraq -- rallied against the war as well.
A protest also was held in Canberra, Australia, earlier where more than 2,000 people gathered in the city at lunchtime Friday.
The Indonesian protestors, most of them wearing white shirts and head dress for female activists, gathered Sunday at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle and passed the United Nations office in Jakarta before streaming past the embassy.
It marked the largest antiwar protest rally in this predominantly Muslim nation so far since the U.S.-led attacks on Iraq on March 20. The protestors were carrying various banners, denouncing the attacks on Iraq, shouting anti-American sentiments, such as "U.S. Terrorist, Imperialist."
"As we know, the U.S. aggression against Iraq is not only slaughtering innocent civilians, including women and children, robbing and occupying the Iraqi oil and assets, but the aggression had also destroyed and caved in the mosques and other houses of worships," said Achmad Midan, chairman of the Indonesian Ulemas Council.
Protestor leader Din Syamsuddin told the crowds that they have decided to reject an offer to have a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, Ralph Boyce.
"About three million Indonesian citizens have now gathered in Jakarta with a clear message to your government, to your President George W. Bush," Syamsudden shouted. "The clear message is 'Stop the War Now.'"
The crowd responded, "Stop the War Now, Stop the War Now."
Hidayat Nurwahid, chairman of the Indonesian Committee in Solidarity with Iraqi People, strongly deplored the attacks, urging an immediate halt to the war.
Like previous protest rallies, there were no immediate reports of violence from the Sunday demonstrations.
While daily anti-American protest rallies have hit various cities in Indonesia since the start of the Iraq war March 20, so far they have been peaceful.
The protestors frequently call for boycotts of American products, with gatherings at a number of U.S.-branded fast food outlets, such as McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The angry protestors were also demanding for Jakarta to cut off its diplomatic ties with Washington.
The Indonesian government has vowed to protect the embassies of the United States, Australia and Britain and has threatened to arrest any who harass foreigners or damage their properties.
Similar anti-war protest rallies also took place in several other Indonesian cities on Sunday, including in East Java capital of Surabaya, the country's second largest city, about 400-miles east of Jakarta, when hundreds of Muslims gathered at outside the U.S. consulates.
