REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that attack on Syria could not be conducted without mandate of the United Nation (UN). He said that use of military force to punish use of chemical weapons in absence of UN mandate was wrong. He feared this condition would create human tragedy that could not be stopped.

"The ise of military force to attack Syria without UN mandate, especially with an aim to punish is not right," Yudhoyono said recently.

In G20 Summit in Russia, issue on Syria dominated the topic of dicussion. The audience splitted into two groups, the ones who support punishment for President Bashar Assad due to his chemical attack and the others who against any attack without UN mandate.

Currently Indonesia is not member of UN Security Council, but the country remains concern because there is a moral obligation. "Indonesia must act despite limitations of authority. If there is a presumption that Indonesia has power to resolve conflict in Syria, it is not true," Yudhoyono said.

Yudhoyono said that measures must be taken ro address this humanitarian crisis. He said that there were three stages to solve the conflict. They are stop the violence, implement humanitarian aid, and solve the conflict in Syria through political solution instead of military solution. 

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