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The two countries will mark 70 years of their relationship (actually 45 years because of the 25-year hiatus), which has become more intimate over the last five years. As true friends, they should be able to put differences behind much broader common interests.
The latest encroachment on Indonesian waters by Chinese fishing vessels and the Chinese coast guard several days ago highlights a fundamental reality: China could ignore Indonesia’s interests and concerns because it can.
The latest incidents in the North Natuna Sea should serve as another wake-up call for the government to immediately and expediently improve the country’s naval and other related capabilities to safeguard the sovereign rights of the nation, particularly on the southern fringe of South China Sea.
As the world’s third-largest democracy, Indonesia should now speak out about the crisis in Hong Kong — and the even more chronic human rights violations in China. When its own citizens are attacked, detained, expelled or mistreated in Hong Kong, Indonesia has a responsibility to make its voice heard.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s acknowledgment on the weekend of Southeast Asia’s need for closer cooperation with China may very well be motivated by overarching domestic concerns, but the gesture might have far bigger consequences than we can readily discern.
According to the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), by 2017, the anticorruption drive had investigated more than 2.7 million officials, penalized more than 1.5 million people and criminally convicted 58,000, including more than 120 “tigers” (high-ranking civilian and military officials).
