Jakarta – Indonesian officials and Islamic leaders called production of an anti-Islam film posted on the Internet by a far-right Dutch MP "an irresponsible action" and "unethical", reports said Saturday.

Foreign ministry spokesman Kristiarto Legowo told The Jakarta Post that the film's content "is misleading and full of racism and we consider its production as an irresponsible action under the blanket of freedom of the press."

Dutch MP Geert Wilders' film "Fitna," which was posted online on Thursday, features violent imagery of terror attacks in New York and Madrid intertwined with Koranic texts.

Indonesia's foreign ministry had urged Wilders earlier this month to abandon plans to release the film, citing fears of a backlash by Muslims.

Din Syamsuddin, leader of Indonesia's second largest Islamic group, the tolerant Muhammadiyah, was quoted by state-news agency Antara as saying that production of the film was "unacceptable".

He said this "proved that the West is not serious in upholding democracy and tolerance. Freedom of expression that they create is unethical."

Earlier this week, a small group of hardline Muslims rallied outside the Dutch embassy in Jakarta over plans to release the film.

In February 2006, the Danish mission embassy in Jakarta had to close down for weeks following angry protests over controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published in the European nation and reprinted elsewhere.

Indonesia, a former Dutch colony, is the world's most populous Muslim nation, where most Muslims practise a tolerant strain of the religion.