The last time this sort of one person rule happened in a major power the result was World War Two (WW2). In response to World War Two, the world set up the United Nations in New York, and crafted the United Nations Declaration Of Human Rights in an attempt to learn from that tragedy and craft a better world.
One of the growing uncertainties in modern South Pacific strategic politics is the future alignment of Indonesia. In population terms Indonesia is the fourth biggest country in the world and is forecast to be the world’s fourth or fifth biggest economy by 2050.
Australia and America have recently announced support for developing a naval base at Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. Aussie PM, Scott Morrison and VP Mike Pence discussed this in Papua New Guinea in November.
Evan Laksmana, of Jakarta's Centre for Strategic and International Studies, has said in response that Australian strategic planning "should not assume passive neutrality on the part of Indonesia in thinking about a future regional conflict".
My father faced Japanese bullets on what is now an Indonesian beach at the end of WW2.
Dad's image has become part of a grass roots art display at a waterhole in Morotai, Indonesia, where my father camped prior to going into battle and where General Douglas MacArthur built a bathroom for his wife. https://tujuhbelasan.com/2018/10/17/austral-indonesian-tujuhbelasan-1-my-dad-in-morotai/
Despite all the ways in which the world has changed we should never forget what The Greatest Generation won in WW2.
Indonesians revere 1945 as the year their free nation was born in the aftermath of that war.
Democratic Indonesia is a friend we need.
Instead, How about a strong quake to wash away this Islamic cesspool?
Indonesia is a Muslim country nothing democratic about it
Never been to Indonesia so not informed enough to comment, but it would take some convincing arguments to get me to believe we “need” Indonesia, which has a significant Muslim population.
A bankrupt China is not a threat to anyone. They will be too busy trying to pacify their rioting citizens.
No one NEEDS Indonesia.
Indonesia is the home of Islamic “Heresy App” for smartphones.
I’d rather hand the entire country over to the PRC for “reeducation” than help them in any way.
The Indonesian Mohammedans are as radical as those from most anywhere in Arabia and more radical than the majority.
Plus the Hindu Indians (which are a large majority) understand too well the pitfalls of playing nice with the Mohammedans, and most of the Indians who are good Capitalists also are pro-America and pro-Trump.