The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) has set up an entity called the "OIC Alliance to Rescue Child Victims of Tsunami" to protect the orphans from "illegal foreign elements", OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said.

"We want these girls and boys to be well looked after in their land within their own cultural and social environment, and away from any illegal foreign elements," he was quoted as saying by the Bernama news agency.

There were reports earlier this month that misionary groups would place tsunami orphans from Indonesia's stricken Aceh province in Christian children's homes, drawing protests from the world's largest Muslim country.

"The government has from the beginning been wary of attempts by certain groups to subvert orphans in Aceh under the pretext of humanitarian aid. There are regulations against such practices," foreign ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa had said.

Ihsanoglu said the OIC would also launch another campaign to collect donations and hoped to mobilise people to go to Aceh and assist the victims in rebuilding their mosques and homes.

He was attending a gathering of some 50 scholars and diplomats from 15 OIC countries in Malaysia's administrative capital of Putrajaya.

Delegates at the meeting studied proposals to institute reforms in the OIC and in the mechanism of making and implementing resolutions, he said.

"I can say that there is a complete resonance between members of the commission and the OIC General Secretariat, complete consensus on what is to be done and measures to be taken (to reform the OIC)," Ihsanoglu said.

"If we can work together with the OIC secretary general, who is very keen to restructure the OIC Secretariat, I think it will give us a better chance (of success)," Malaysia's Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said after the closing ceremony of the gathering late Friday.

Describing the meeting as successful, Syed Hamid said the discussions were quite critical of the OIC itself, in terms of its internal affairs and its relationship with the international community as a whole.

Delegates had ageed that the OIC charter, which was seen as being out of date, should be updated to enable the 57-member organisation to function in the context of the present world, he said.

The meeting also unanimously accepted Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's view on the importance of moderation in Islam in tackling extremist groups and improving the image of the religion, Syed Hamid said.

The recommendations on reforms to the OIC, which is often dismissed by critics as no more than a talking shop, will be submitted to the OIC foreign ministers' meeting in Yemen later this year.