Indonesia Says Two Journalists Seized in Iraq

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Two Indonesian television journalists have been seized by Iraqi militants in the western city of Ramadi, an Iraqi guerrilla stronghold, a government spokesman in Jakarta said on Friday.

``We have received information...from the owner of a car rented by two journalists from Metro TV that on February 15, their vehicle heading for Ramadi was halted by an armed group,'' foreign affairs spokesman Marty Natalegawa told reporters.``The car, driver and the two journalists have been taken to an unknown location. However, I will not use the word abduction yet,'' he told a news conference.

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has been a staunch critic of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.Natalegawa said his office had been told by Metro TV, Indonesia's only 24-hour news broadcaster, that the journalists were in Iraq but had not contacted their employer recently.``They said there were two staff assigned (in Iraq) whose whereabouts are now unknown,'' he said.



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