Indonesia may strengthen security on Danish nationals in Jakarta as protests against the controversial publication of cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad spread in the most populous Muslim country, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said here Wednesday.

Talking to reporters after meeting with a number of religious leaders here, Wirajuda said that currently the government had given sufficient protection to Danish citizens and Danish mission offices from possible violence of furious protesters.

"If there is a worry from the (Danish) embassy about the safety of their nationals here, we will strengthen protection for them, that will be carried out by police and intelligence," he said.

The minister said that the publishing of caricature that offended Muslim communities had added ammunition for radical groups to exploit the ongoing situation to be out of proportion.

On the same occasion, the vice chairman of the Indonesian Ulemas Council and head of the second biggest Muslim organization of Muhammadiyah, Din Syamsuddin, urged Muslims in the country to react rationally.

"I urge Muslims in the country not to react outrageously or anarchistically," he said.

"This is a lesson for the western countries. If this is repeated, it would trigger a radicalization in the Islam world, including Indonesia, and it would be potential to become a clash of civilization," he said.

Indonesian police have paid serious attention to the security of foreign nationals, especially those from the countries which have links with the cartoon publication, spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam told Xinhua in telephone.

Last week, Indonesia condemned Denmark over the issue of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, which touched off anger among Muslims in the world.

Over 87 percent of Indonesia's 220 million population are Muslims, most of them being moderate.

The cartoons were first published in September last year in a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, sparking anger among Muslims who knew about it. The paper had asked dozens of cartoonists to draw images of the prophet.

The Islamic law, based on clerics' interpretation of the Quran and the sayings of the prophet, forbids depiction of the Prophet Mohammad.

Source: Xinhua