Indonesia is set to assist Sri Lanka in infrastructure development, as the two countries look forward to bolstering bilateral cooperation and beyond, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said. On the sidelines of his two-day state visit to Vietnam, Jokowi met with Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at Melia Hotel in Hanoi on Wednesday, during which they discussed ways to… Read more »
In the upcoming Indonesian presidential elections of April of 2019, religion has a considerable role. Indonesia is a predominantly Muslim country, with 90% of Indonesians identifying as Muslim, and even one district, Aech, adopting Sharia Law. The current President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, ran against Prabowo Subianto in 2014. Their previous campaigns against one another in 2014, involved exceeding amounts… Read more »
Last month, Mr Widodo chose conservative Muslim cleric Maruf Amin as his presidential running mate, ahead of an election that was shaping up to be fought on religious grounds. But, as the rupiah edges to lows not seen since the 1998 Indonesian currency collapse, which led to the fall of the Suharto regime, Widodo’s pick for vice president is now… Read more »
The Trump administration is considering sanctions against Chinese senior officials and companies to punish Beijing’s detention of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uighurs and other minority Muslims in large internment camps, according to current and former American officials. The economic penalties would be one of the first times the Trump administration has taken action against China because of human rights violations…. Read more »
Indonesia’s presidential election next year will be a rematch of the contentious 2014 contest, and analysts fear it will see a return of the smear campaigns and appeals to sectarian intolerance that marred that vote. On Friday, President Joko Widodo and his 2014 opponent, the former army general Prabowo Subianto, both filed paperwork declaring their intent to run in the… Read more »