The Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Congress saw the thorough consolidation of power by Xi Jinping, elected to a third term, with a leadership that is personally loyal to him. No leader since Mao consolidated this amount of political power. China’s importance as a trade partner and regional power means that this
Army Chief of Staff General Dudung Abdurachman on Wednesday reminded soldiers of their obligation to uphold neutrality and shun practical politics during the 2024 simultaneous general elections. “We continue to strongly uphold the TNI’s (Indonesian military’s) neutrality not to get involved in practical politics,” he said while addressing the soldiers
Vice President Ma’ruf Amin welcomed the Saudi Arabian government’s new policy on pilgrimage services for Indonesian pilgrims during a meeting with Saudi Arabian Hajj and Umrah Affairs Minister Tawfiq Fawzan Muhammed Alrabiah on Wednesday. “I laud the various new policies (of the Saudi Arabian government), both regarding Umrah and Hajj
The latest developments in Russia’s war on Ukraine. All times EDT. 11:30 p.m.: The United Nations is using before-and-after satellite imagery to monitor the cultural destruction inflicted by Russia’s war in Ukraine, announcing Wednesday it will launch its tracking platform publicly within weeks, Agence France-Presse reported. The U.N.’s culture agency UNESCO said
Rescuers retrieved three more bodies yesterday, after a ship caught fire in the waters, off Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province, a day earlier, bringing the casualties of the incident to 17 people, with at least five others still missing. “Today we recovered the bodies of one child, one man and
Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej urged the public to understand the basic nature of criminal law that essentially restrained human rights. “Criminal law curbs human rights, more or less,” Hiariej stated while disseminating information on the Draft Criminal Code at the University of Palangka