A former rock star has led three-thousand Indonesian protesters in a rally outside the British embassy to condemn a possible war on Iraq.

Women wearing white headscarves hoisted signs in downtown Jakarta proclaiming their opposition to American and British plans to invade Iraq.

Rock star turned preacher, Harry Mukti, said while the protestors were no fans of Iraqi leader, Saddan Hussein, the Iraqi people need to be defended.

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has said it considers any unilateral action against Iraq unacceptable though it supports the presence of UN weapons inspectors in Iraq.