Indonesia: Reluctant South China Sea Participant
China aggression forces Jakarta to pay attention
By: Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
The South China Sea crisis is intensifying, with China contesting the littoral nations for primacy in its waters, through which as much as 30 percent of world trade worth an estimated US$5 trillion passes in its way from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific annually.
Indonesia has done its best not to be drawn into what looks to b…
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