A militant Indonesian Islamic group warned foreign aid agencies in the tsunami-devastated province of Aceh today not to stray from their humanitarian mission.
Hundreds of volunteers from the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) are helping retrieve corpses from the debris of the killer tsunami that crashed ashore on December 26 following a magnitude 9 earthquake, killing more than 105,000 people alone in Indonesia.
The group said it considered non-governmental organisations, numbering more than 40, and foreign military in the overwhelmingly Muslim province of Aceh to be "friends" provided they remained focused on their aid relief work in the province on the northern tip of Sumatra island.
"We can work together. But if they came here with some hidden agenda, colonialism, imperialism or missionary, I think this is very, very dangerous, and very, very complicated," Mr Hilmy Bakar Almascaty, central board chairman for the FPI, said.
"I think it is very complicated because they (could) make new problems for Aceh people."
Around the Indian Ocean at least 156,000 people were killed by the undersea earthquake and tsunami.
Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country, with around 85 per cent of people professing that religion. Aceh is the most Islamic province of all with Muslims making up 98 per cent of its population.