JAKARTA, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - Indonesia's president urged the mainly Muslim nation not to resort to violence in protests against an anti-Islamic film made by a Dutch MP, as fresh rallies erupted outside the Dutch embassy on Tuesday.

More than 70 activists massed outside the Netherlands embassy in Jakarta amid heavy security on a third day of protests against the film, made by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders.

The protesters carried posters calling for Wilders to be punished. One showed an image of him bearing fangs and with a gun at either side of his head, alongside the slogan 'Death to the insulter of Islam.'

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono late Monday urged Indonesians not to resort to violence in venting their anger about the film, which was released on the Internet last Thursday.

He also barred Wilders from entering Indonesia and said screenings of the 17-minute film 'Fitna' would be banned in the former Dutch colony.

The film features imagery of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the 2004 Madrid bombings combined with quotes from the Koran, Islam's holy book.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called the film 'offensively anti-Islamic'.

Around 60 members of the Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, along with a dozen members of the youth group Movement for the Defence of Islam (GPI), protested outside the embassy on Tuesday.

Seven protesters were invited inside to meet Dutch diplomats to convey their concerns about the film.

The GPI issued a statement calling on Muslims to boycott Dutch products to 'defend the purity of Islam.'

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen sought Monday to temper anger over the film in the Muslim world, saying that hurt feelings need not lead to violence.

Tuesday's demonstrations in Jakarta came after around 50 members of a more militant Islamic group, the Front for the Defenders of Islam, protested at the embassy on Monday.

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation with some 90 percent of its 230 million people following Islam.