Two experts told BenarNews last week – citing security sources whom they declined to identify – that the trio and one other Uyghur convict had been deported to China, where authorities are believed to have held close to 2 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps, which the United States and several other nations have sharply criticized.
Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, pursues a model of democracy with particular attention to the values of tolerance and pluralism, summarized in the motto “unity in diversity”, inherent in the philosophy of “Pancasila”, the five principles that are basis of the Constitution: faith in one God; a just and civil society; a united nation; democracy guided by wisdom; social justice for all citizens
The Papua region was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969, after a U.N.-administered ballot known as the Act of Free Choice. Many Papuans and rights groups said the vote was a sham because it involved only 1,000 people
Wildlife experts warn that the world’s rarest great ape, discovered in 2017, will not survive the building of a $1.6 billion hydroelectric power plant and dam in the middle of its remaining habitat in Sumatra, Indonesia. Only 800 of the newly identified Tapanuli orangutans remain in the wild
The President of the Security Council for the month of January, Ambassador José Singer Weisinger of the Dominican Republic, briefed correspondents on the programme of work
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