REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Muslim-based United Development Party (PPP) will invite Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah to come to Indonesia. PPP wanted to hear the current situation in Palestine.

"We have limited access to information about Palestine. It is hoped that the presence of the Hamas leader would help us understand the future better," PPP general chairman Romahurmuzy stated here, when receiving Hamas representative for Asia, Muslim Imran, on Wednesday.

In a press statement received here on Thursday, Imran, who is also the chief of Palestinian Cultural Organization Malaysia (PICOM) based in Kuala Lumpur, met Romahurmuzy to deliver a two-page long letter in Arabic language from Haniya.

He also conveyed Haniya's best regards and requested PPP's support for the recognition of Palestinian independence.