A man uses a slingshot during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: Reuters
Opinion
Opinion
Evan A. Laksmana
Myanmar crisis: will Indonesia’s pleas to China, Japan and the US be heard?
Jakarta lacks the leverage to effect change in Myanmar and can only plead with others who hold some sway, such as China, Japan, Russia, India, and the US
But it cannot afford to do nothing, lest the troubled country becomes a ‘Southeast Asian Syria or Afghanistan’