Fadli Zon Affirms Jokowi Unable To Defend Ethnic Rohingya And Uighurs In Today's Memory, December 31, 2018

Fadli Zon with President Jokowi during the ASEAN 2022 Summit at Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Twitter/@fadlizon)

JAKARTA Memories of today, six years ago, December 31, 2018, Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives (DPR), Fadli Zon criticized President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) regarding the government's silence in the Rohingya and Uighur cases. Both cases were categorized as gross human rights violations.

Previously, Jokowi's government was often active in international affairs. The government tried to intervene in providing assistance when the Rohingya ethnic genocide case broke out in Myanmar. On the other hand, the government did not make much diplomatic efforts to protect them.

Justice is the most difficult thing for the Rohingya ethnicity in Myanmar to find. They are often marginalized ethnic groups. They are even considered not part of the country. This condition makes the Rohingya marginalized.

Instead of caring, the Myanmar government actually continued the Rohingya ethnic expulsion agenda in 2017. The eviction was carried out in a harsh way: the military movement. The reason is to pursue the rebels.

This condition carries very deep wounds. Genocide occurs. Parents to many young people were killed. Those who survived continued to flee to refugee camps in Bangladesh. The rest immediately sought a safe place to another Asian country.

The grief faced by the Rohingya ethnicity is also felt throughout the world. Many countries in the world are starting to condemn the Myanmar government. Indonesia also does not want to lose. Representatives of the government were also sent.

Assistance to the Rohingya was also given. This step raises admiration. However, the government is not really considered to be able to resolve the conflict. Indonesia is not involved much in diplomacy in protecting the Rohingya ethnicity.

A political figure who is also the General Chair of Gerindra, Prabowo Subianto, had revealed his criticism. Jokowi's leadership is considered to have made Indonesia a weak country. Alias, Indonesia cannot and has no power to protect the fate of the Rohingya ethnicity.

"Even though we are now sending aid, I think it's an image. Sending aid doesn't even sometimes. So here I have to tell you so you don't get emotional."

"Believe me, if we are strong, we will help the Rohingya, we will clean it up. We must be strong to help the weak, we cannot help weakly, poorly help the poor," Prabowo said as quoted by the COMPASS.com page, September 16, 2017.

Prabowo was also considered pessimistic because of his criticism. However, time also answered. Indonesia could not really help with the alleged Rohingya human rights violations. This inability was also confirmed by China's new human rights violations to Uighur Muslims.

Fadli Zon also revealed that Indonesia was less reactive in the conflict between the two gross human rights violations on December 31, 2018. Fadli Zon considers Indonesia to have the natural role of being the largest Muslim country.

However, Jokowi brought Indonesia to its silence. The deputy chairman of the DPR considered Jokowi's weak attitude while underestimating Indonesia as the largest Muslim country. Fadli also asked Indonesia to act immediately to help the Rohingya and Uighur Muslim brothers.

"However, ironically, this role has faded, especially in the issue of human rights violations experienced by ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar and Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, where Indonesian voices are not heard at all".

"However, ironically, our government is silent, considering that the Uighur Muslim issue is a Chinese domestic political matter. Even though we currently have a lot of economic cooperation with China, the attitude of the Indonesian government should not be affected by this condition," said Fadli Zon on his Twitter / X account @fadlizon, quoted on the website. , December 31, 2018.