Musharraf said his trip to Indonesia was to discuss "the turmoil within the Muslim world" with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

"We both felt that the time has come for action and that there is not room for complacency because things are moving so fast, things are deteriorating so fast, that we need to arrest this deteriorating trend," he told reporters at a joint press conference with Yudhoyono.

He said they had "reviewed the turmoil in Palestine, in Iraq, in Lebanon, in Afghanistan" and had come to an agreement about the need for a new initiative to contribute to resolving disputes in the Muslim world.