https://www.scmp.com/rss/502660/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com News about the 165,000 Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong dominates coverage of the relationship between the city and the Southeast Asian nation. These stories are often focused on the hardships endured by domestic workers from Indonesia, who work long hours for extremely low wages. While the two governments have worked to improve the situation, such reports continue to overshadow the continued expansion of their political, cultural and business ties. More controversy erupted last week... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3040976/why-indonesia-and-hong-kong-must-resolve-issues-faced-domestic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3040976/why-indonesia-and-hong-kong-must-resolve-issues-faced-domestic?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Dec 2019 04:15:13 +0000 On October 15, US Ambassador to Indonesia Joseph R. Donovan Jnr visited one of the country’s largest Muslim organisations, Muhammadiyah, urging its chairman Haedar Nashir to mount pressure on China to end the detention of the Uygur people. It was one of two encounters with major Muslim groups in which Donovan urged them to join Washington’s diplomatic push for China to end the worsening conditions of the Uygurs in northwest Xinjiang. But the US diplomat failed to get the response he was... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3037362/indonesia-must-speak-against-china-uygurs-look-what-gambia-did?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3037362/indonesia-must-speak-against-china-uygurs-look-what-gambia-did?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 12 Nov 2019 23:00:12 +0000 According to the proverb, when elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. Well, so much for that proverb. The case of Indonesia shows that being the rope in a tug of war between two economic giants – in its case China and Japan – can be a very lucrative position indeed. First, consider the seemingly ever closer friendship between Jakarta and Beijing. Whether it is in education and media or investment and infrastructure, there’s little doubt that ties are at something of a high point. That’s... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3035237/why-indonesias-winner-next-china-japan-economic-battle?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3035237/why-indonesias-winner-next-china-japan-economic-battle?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:00:12 +0000