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Standing on the South China Sea conflict

Palm Springs, California - Indonesias stand on the South China Sea conflict remains unchanged, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) stated.

"Of course, we will discuss the South China Sea issue. Indonesia is not a claimant state in this conflict," he affirmed before attending the US-ASEAN Summit at Miramonte Resort, Indian Wells, California, on Monday morning (Tuesday morning in Jakarta).

Indonesia believes that the dialog process is necessary to resolve the conflict soon, he noted.

Jokowi emphasized that the South China Sea must be a peaceful and stable region.

"The international law must be respected and rivalry among major forces must be prevented," he remarked.

Although Indonesia is a non-claimant state, the country continues to contribute to confidence building measures through a wide range of activities, he pointed out.

The activities include periodically hosting Workshops on Managing Potential Conflict in the South China Sea by involving all relevant parties. 

In addition, Indonesia has initiated a formula 3+1 agreed upon during its 2011 ASEAN chairmanship and the ASEAN Six-Point Principles to reiterate ASEANs centrality. 

The South China Sea is claimed wholly or partly by China, Taiwan, and four ASEAN member states: Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei.

Rally against North Korea's rocket launch

South Korea is looking to make its citizens' stomachs the latest front in its standoff with North Korea.

The government in Seoul is telling South Koreans not to eat at the North Korean-run restaurants found in many cities around the world. The goal is to stop money from helping fund Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear warheads and missiles.

South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that South Korean travelers, diplomats and overseas residents have been advised not to go to North Korean restaurants, although such visits are not illegal.

Analysts say Pyongyang probably won't suffer much, as many more Chinese and other nationalities than South Koreans frequent these restaurants.

Washington and Seoul have been calling for more stringent financial and trade sanctions against Pyongyang following its recent nuclear test and rocket launch.

The start of Vietnam's brief but bloody border war with China

More than 100 people gathered in Hanoi on Wednesday to commemorate the anniversary of the start of Vietnam's brief but bloody border war with China.

Thirty seven years ago, 600,000 Chinese troops invaded northern Vietnam to "teach Vietnam a lesson" for ousting the Beijing-backed Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. China withdrew its troops after a month.

The residents lit incense Wednesday and laid flowers at the statue of King Ly Thai To, a Vietnamese hero, in a ceremony that lasted an hour. They chanted "down with the aggressors," and "Hoang Sa, Truong Sa," the Vietnamese terms for the Paracel and Spratly islands in the South China Sea.

The Paracels are claimed by Vietnam, China and Taiwan, while the Spratlys are claimed in all or parts by those three along with the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.

The commemoration took place even though large gatherings without government approval are often stopped by the police.

There have been no official government commemorations of the war.

The Vietnamese Communist Party and government celebrated the victories over the French and then the Americans, but they "appear to forget about the border war with China and the days when China occupied Hoang Sa and Truong Sa," said one participant, Nguyen Huu Hop.

Hop said he volunteered to go to the border fight the Chinese, but that his unit was instead stationed in the capital Hanoi. He said many young men in his neighborhood were killed in the war.

After China withdrew its troops, periodical fighting continued along the border for another 10 years before the communist neighbors normalized diplomatic relations in 1991.

China is now Vietnam's largest trading partner, but relations have plunged following China' parking of an oil rig near the Paracels in May 2014.

The countries have since then tried to mend ties by exchanging high-level visits, but tensions remain over the islands.

Fighting between the Myanmar government army and ethnic Shan State Army North

On a freshly scarred battlefield, a diehard rebel army is facing off at gunfire range against a military that for decades has imposed iron-fisted rule over this Southeast Asian nation. Overhead, vultures circle the mountainous terrain while insurgent soldiers crouch near deep foxholes, prepared, they say, to throw back another possible assault.

Myanmar's civil war — the longest in modern world history — hasn't ended, even with democracy triumphant in recent elections and the winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, pledging to end hostilities between the central government and a host of autonomy-seeking ethnic minorities. Prospects for stopping the bloodshed are balanced on a knife's edge.

Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy swept November's elections, has promised that bringing peace will be the top priority when her government assumes power April 1. "We will try for the all-inclusive ceasefire agreement," the Noble Prize laureate said recently. "We can do nothing without peace in our country."

But suspicions of the country's military were again aroused as it battled the Shan State Army-North in these remote hills of northeastern Myanmar just as voters were casting their ballots across the country. As the countdown to democracy proceeds, so do clashes with the Kachin Independence Army, the Ta'ang National Liberation Army and others.

The rebel armies represent various ethnic groups that for decades have been fighting for autonomy while resisting "Burmanization," a push by the Burman ethnic majority to propagate its language, religion and culture in ethnic minority regions.

"No, no, no we don't trust them," Shan army Maj. Gen. Hso Hten said of Myanmar's military, vowing they would only lay down their arms if their goals were fully implemented, the foremost of which is a federal system in which ethnic minorities are granted genuine autonomy. That would include use of ethnic languages in schools and greater control over forests, hydro-power and other natural resources.

During the battles in Shan state, which ended with a fragile ceasefire at the end of November, government jet fighters and helicopter gunships strafed and bombed military and civilian targets. They swept into villages, driving more than 10,000 from homes they looted and sometimes destroyed, according to refugee and Shan army accounts.

Both sides accuse one another of sparking yet another round of warfare in an insurgency that erupted in the early 1960s among the Shan, the largest of 135 officially recognized ethnic minorities that make up 40 percent of the population. The first uprising, that of the Karen, was launched 67 years ago, shortly after the country's 1948 independence from Great Britain, followed by numerous others.

The generals ceded power to a military-backed government in 2011, paving the way for the recent elections. But the armed forces remain the country's most powerful institution, stoking fears they will take orders not from the elected government but their commander-in-chief.

Hso Hten, who joined rebel ranks in 1958, expressed some hope in Suu Kyi's future government, given her overwhelming popular support.

"We are compelled to trust her because we don't have any choice," said the 80-year-old general in an interview in the town of Wan Hai from which his rebel army says it commands more than 10,000 troops and 18,000 square miles (46,600 square kilometers) of territory.

Like the other major insurgencies — notably the Kachin and Karen — this Shan group is not a classic guerrilla outfit swooping down from jungle hideouts but more akin to a state within a state. It runs 28 departments, including health and agriculture, schools, a hospital and orphanage, and even issues its own vehicle license plates.

The Shan treasury, which gathers revenue from taxes on residents, can purchase weaponry on the black markets of China, Thailand and Cambodia. Some groups in the Shan State and elsewhere in Myanmar have traditionally financed their insurgencies through drug trafficking.

On the frontline, some 5 miles (8 kilometers) from Wan Hai, soldiers wield everything from Czech pistols to US-made grenade launchers from the Vietnam War. A 24-hour alert is in force, and at night the soldiers observe the campfires of the Burmese military dug into a range of undulating hills.

The fighters sleep burrowed into tiny molehill-like shelters camouflaged against aerial attacks by withered brown leaves. Use of airpower is a recent development in the fighting, and some powerful ordnance appears to have been dropped: one bomb crater measured some 1.5 meters in depth.

The soldiers talk of combat in October and November that killed 70 of their comrades. They file past a shattered house where they killed a Burmese commander with a rocket-propelled grenade. A few meters away, stretching across a beautiful valley carpeted by terraced rice fields, begins a no-man's land sown with mines.

"We have this small piece of territory and want to live in peace but they still come and attack us," said Lt. Sao Mong. "They are all over these mountains. If they don't intend to attack again why are they still here, why don't they withdraw?"

The Shan State Army-North, one of two main Shan rebel armies, refused to sign a ceasefire agreement last October between the government and eight insurgent groups. But none of the more than 20 armed insurgencies have given up their weapons. The Shan general said the armed groups in total field some 100,000 soldiers, although analysts believe the figure may be less.

"The government has always said, 'Put down your guns and we will talk politics,' while the insurgents said, 'Let's talk politics and then we will put down our guns, maybe.' That issue is still there," says David Steinberg, an American author of several books on Myanmar.

Suu Kyi's party promise to expunge the legacy of nearly seven decades of hatred, suspicion and blood may prove difficult.

While some rebel groups have committed unlawful acts, including the recruitment of boy soldiers, international agencies, the United Nations and others have over several decades detailed widespread rape, torture and extra-judicial killings of civilians, even crucifixions, by the military. Villagers have been used as human minesweepers. More than half a million people have been driven from their homes just in eastern Myanmar.

The former government acknowledged that some atrocities did occur while its forces were fighting what it called "terrorist organizations." But nobody has been brought to justice, Suu Kyi has announced no plans to do so and the military continues to operate in its former fashion, although the scale of atrocities appears to have lessened.

"We ran away with only the clothes we were wearing. We are afraid to go back," said Pa Phit, a 45-year-old woman who fled with all other 60 residents when government troops entered Ho Nam village while firing their guns. "We have nothing left, not even a small spoon."

Among more than 1,400 refugees encamped on a bare hilltop was 102-year-old Nai Nang, carried over the hills by grandchildren after the troops occupied her village.

With such acts, the insurgents do not lack for fresh recruits to their cause, even if a private in the Shan army earns just US$8 a month.

"We have been facing injustice, bullying and oppression since I was young," said Sao Siha as he walked around a Wan Hai monastery where damage from mortars and air-launched rockets had been freshly repaired.

After years of witnessing killings of innocent people, he finally had enough when in October the military attacked his town of Maing Naung. The abbot of a Buddhist monastery and a monk for 36 of his 45 years, Sao Siha made what he said was a wrenching decision — to exchange his robes for a Shan army uniform.

"I wanted to take action against injustice," he said. "I had no choice."

Child soldiers in Afghanistan

The United Nations on Wednesday condemned all sides in Afghanistan's conflict for using child soldiers, noting that while government forces have curbed the practice, insurgent groups continue to train large numbers of fighters under the age of 18.

The Afghan government has made progress on the issue, said Leila Zerrougui, the UN representative for children and armed conflict. But she said the Afghan Local Police — government-allied groups that often operate as independent militias and are widely seen as unprofessional and corrupt — are major perpetrators.

The Taliban, who have been battling the government for over 15 years, mainly recruit children in provinces bordering Pakistan and other areas where the fighting is fiercest, she said.

Noting that the majority of Afghanistan's population is younger than 18, Zerrougui said child soldiers are "deprived of the minimum of their basic rights."

"They are not going to school, they are deprived of access to health. They are targeted by armed groups and they are prevented from having hope for the future."

Zerrougui spoke to reporters a day after the New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report accusing Taliban forces of boosting the number of children in their ranks since the middle of last year, in violation of international laws.

The report said insurgents "have been training and deploying children for various military operations" in Afghanistan, including making and deploying bombs.

It found that children between the ages of 13 and 17 were given military training in madrassas, or religious schools. Boys began indoctrination as young as six years old, and by the time they were 13 "have learned military skills including use of firearms, and the production and deployment of IEDs," a term for roadside bombs, HRW said.

It said the Taliban had recruited child fighters since the 1990s, but had expanded the practice with new madrassas and training centers in the country's north.

The Taliban condemned the HRW report in an emailed statement Wednesday, saying that it banned the recruitment of children as fighters.

The use of child soldiers is illegal in Afghanistan, which ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1994, committing the country to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers.

Despite the downward trend marked by the UN, the government is still struggling to curtail the practice.

Earlier this month, officials confirmed that a 10-year-old boy had who had been declared a hero after fighting the Taliban was shot dead by insurgents while on his way to school.

Child Soldiers International, a London-based charity, accused the government in a report released last June of slow progress in dealing with child soldier recruitment. The report, which was presented to the UN Security Council's working group on children and armed conflict, said recruitment was mainly driven by poverty, but also filial duty, patriotism and honor.

Indonesia Revised Version of its Negative Investment List

Jakarta. Indonesia plans to introduce the revised version of its negative investment list to international businesses at the Asean-US Summit as part of a wider effort to lure foreign investment and boost capital inflows into the country, a senior official said on Monday (15/02).

"Featured sectors in the new list, which include the film industry, e-commerce, marketplaces and pharmaceutical businesses, will be the main attraction to invite foreign investment from the United States," Franky Sibarani, Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) chairman, said in a statement.

Franky is part of President Joko Widodo's entourage who flew to the United States on Sunday to attend Association of Southeast Asian Nations-US Summit in Sunnylands, California.

The government released last week a new negative investment list, or DNI, which loosened the cap on foreign ownership in various sectors. The DNI previously used as a regulatory barrier to protect local players in a number of sectors against foreign-controlled companies.
Franky is scheduled to hold one-on-one meetings with companies planning to invest in Indonesia on the sidelines of the summit.
The United States, according to the BKPM, is one of Indonesia's major investment sources. Last year, investors from the US invested $893 million in Indonesia and promised to invest an addition $4.8 billion over the course of several years. That compared to a total of $29.28 billion foreign direct investment to Indonesia in 2015.
On the other hand, Indonesia is also ready to formally introduce its growing digital economy at the Asean-US Summit, Trade Minister Thomas Trikasih Lembong said.
"In the first day of this Summit, country leaders will be focused on issues related to the economy, especially the access to technology and digital economies, which will help improve the ability and competitiveness of Asean's small and medium enterprises," Thomas said in a statement on Monday.
"For Indonesia, this is part of our focus to improve the contribution of SMEs to gross domestic product," he added.
According to Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, Joko and his Asean counterparts will have a chance to interact with business leaders from global technology companies during the summit, such as IBM, Microsoft and Sisco.

Santoso was shot dead by the National Police's anti-terrorism unit Densus 88

Jakarta. A terrorist fugitive linked to Santoso, Indonesia's most wanted terror fugitive, was shot dead by the National Police's anti-terrorism unit Densus 88 during a counter-terrorism operation in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, on Monday (15/02), a police source confirmed.

The purported terrorist was identified as Fajar, who was killed during a shootout with the police in the Penatoi subdistrict.

The source confirmed that the deceased fugitive is a member of Santoso's terror group, also known as the East Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT).

The police also claim that Fajar was involved in several terrorism attacks in Poso, Central Sulawesi, and West Nusa Tenggara.
Around 2,000 military and police personnel are on the search for Santoso and his fighters, who have been on the run for more than three years in the jungles of Central Sulawesi, as part of Operation Tinombola 2016.
Police earlier said they have found evidence indicating that the group has received regular funding from the Islamic State movement.
A police officer was also injured during the raid.

Double trade Indonesia-Vietnam by 2018

Indonesia and Vietnam have agreed to boost bilateral trade to US$10 billion by 2018; the target is almost twice the current trade value between the two countries, which stands at $5.3 billion.

The agreement was concluded in a bilateral meeting between President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in the US on Monday. The meeting was preliminary to the ASEAN-US Summit.

“Prime Minister Nguyen Tang Dung welcomed the invitation to boost cooperation in trade and investment. Vietnamese investors have expressed their interest in investing in Indonesia’s oil and gas sector, as well as agriculture,” read a press statement issued by the State Secretariat.

In addition, the two leaders discussed the maritime boundaries between the two countries. Jokowi said he expected immediate consultations to resolve boundary issues between the two countries, following a technical meeting on exclusive economic zones (ZEE) held between the two countries in December.

Jokowi reiterated that Indonesia was often disadvantaged by illegal fishing, and said he hoped sharper maritime delimitation would reduce the uncertainty regarding maritime boundaries. - See more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/02/16/indonesia-vietnam-aim-double-trade-2018.html#sthash.zo41FmVa.dpuf

Airstrikes blamed on Russia hit at least two hospitals and a school

Beirut-Airstrikes blamed on Russia hit at least two hospitals and a school in northern Syria on Monday, February 15, killing and wounding dozens of civilians and further dimming hopes for a temporary truce, as government troops backed by Russian warplanes pressed a major offensive north of Aleppo.

The raids came days after Russia and other world powers agreed to bring about a pause in fighting that would allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the revival of peace talks.

The projected truce agreed on Friday in Munich was to begin in a week, but there was no sign that would happen.

On Monday, Syrian state TV reported that pro-government forces have entered the northern town of Tel Rifaat, where they were fighting "fierce battles" against insurgents. Tel Rifaat is a major stronghold of militants fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad.

Capturing Tel Rifaat would bring government forces closer to their target of Azaz, near the Turkish border.

In Idlib province, an airstrike destroyed a makeshift clinic supported by Doctors Without Borders. The international charity, also known by its French acronym MSF, said the hospital in the town of Maaret al-Numan was hit four times in attacks that were minutes apart. It said seven people were killed and eight others were "missing, presumed dead."

"The destruction of the hospital leaves the local population of around 40,000 people without access to medical services in an active zone of conflict," said MSF mission chief Massimiliano Rebaudengo.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian warplanes targeted the hospital, destroying it and killing nine people. The opposition group, which tracks both sides of the conflict through sources on the ground, said dozens were wounded in the attack.

"The entire building has collapsed on the ground," said opposition activist Yahya al-Sobeih, speaking by phone from Maaret al-Numan. He said five people were killed near the MSF clinic and "all members of the medical team inside are believed to be dead."

The Observatory and other opposition activists said another hospital in Maaret al-Numan was also hit Monday, most likely by a Syrian government airstrike.

In the neighboring Aleppo province, a missile struck a children's hospital in the town of Azaz, killing five people, including three children and a pregnant woman, according to the Observatory. A third air raid hit a school in a nearby village, killing seven and wounding others.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said close to 50 civilians were killed and many more wounded in missile attacks on at least five medical facilities and two schools in northern Syria.

Ban called the attacks "blatant violations of international laws" that "are further degrading an already devastated health care system and preventing access to education in Syria," according to U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq.

Activists posted amateur video that showed civil defense workers pulling bodies from the rubble of the MSF-supported structure in Idlib, which collapsed into a heap of rubble and was tilting to one side.

Others showed a huge crater next to a building that purportedly housed the child and maternal hospital in Azaz. Incubators could be seen in a ward littered with broken glass and toppled medical equipment.

Russia says its airstrikes are targeting militants and denies hitting hospitals or civilians. But rights groups and activists have repeatedly accused Moscow of killing civilians.

Those accusations have increased recently as Russia intensified its airstrikes to provide cover to Syrian troops advancing in the north. Troops are trying to cut rebel supply lines to Turkey and surround rebel-held parts of Aleppo city, once Syria's largest.

Daragh McDowell, the head Russia analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, a British risk analysis firm, said Russian and Syrian tactics "strongly suggest a deliberate effort to further exacerbate the refugee crisis, as a means of destabilizing Europe and pressuring the West to agree to a settlement in Syria on Moscow and Damascus' terms."

Abdulrahman Al-Hassan, chief liaison officer at the Syrian Civil Defense, a group of first responders known as the "White Helmets," said the women's hospital in Azaz was hit by two surface-to-surface missiles. He said some 10 people were killed and many were wounded.

"We think it is Russia because the photos of the missiles have Russian language (and) because we haven't seen this kind (of missile) before the Russian intervention," he said.

Russia has been a key ally of Assad throughout the five-year uprising and civil war, and began launching airstrikes on Sept. 30.

The U.N.'s special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, arrived in Damascus on Monday for talks with Syrian officials.

2.1 M Chinese Tourists Will Come To Indonesia in 2016

Jakarta-I Gde Pitana, Deputi of Foreign Tourism Marketing Development of Tourism Ministry, has targeted 2.1 million of Chinese tourists visits in 2016. The number is higher than Singaporean and Malaysian tourist visits target of 2 million and 1.8 million.

“Chinese market is more interested in new destinations and new experiences,” Pitana said in a media gathering at the office of Tourism Ministry Jakarta, Monday, February 15, 2016.

Pitana said that he has made a strategy to introduce tourism in Chinese market, such as cooperation with Chinese online media. Other regions could be introduced as new destinations via online media. “All this time, they only know Bali and Jakarta. We want to introduce other regions.”

In addition, Tourism Ministry has also developed cooperation program with other countries y promoting ‘one package for two destinations’ program. For example, Pitana said, cooperation with Singapore travel agencies to bring tourists to Singapore before visiting Indonesia. “We have enough budget to implement it,” he said.

The government is also working closely with the media in the form of coverage, advertorial, advertisement and inviting foreign media to travel to Indonesia.

However, tour guides numbers for Chinese tourists are limited since not many could speak Mandarin. Tourism Ministry plans to hold training and give certification to Mandarin speaking tour guides. “We are targeting at least 1000 Mandarin speaking tour guides to be certified this year,” said Pitana.

The Tourism Ministry is hoping to achieve 12 million of foreign tourist visits in 2016. The target is in line with 20 million of foreign tourist visits target set for 2019. Last year, Singapore could reach 16 million, Malaysia 26 million and Thailand 28 million. “Indonesia should be able to reach 20 million because Indonesia has more potential," said Pitana.

More Halal Restaurant in Japan

Japan is aiming to charm Muslim tourists by opening more halal restaurants. The director of economic policy division at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tetsuya Otsuru says the thriving number of Japan restaurant in Indonesia reflects Indonesians enthusiasm toward Japanese cuisines. It is also in line with the increase of Indonesian tourists visit to Japan.

It is said that the number of Japanese restaurants in the whole world has reached more than 34,000 and 20,000 in Asia. As the country is set to host Olympic in 2020, the availability of halal restaurants is believed to be important.

“This is going to be huge market for Japan,” Tetsuya said as quoted by Bisnis.com.

Tetsuya admitted that the expensive cost to get halal certificate becomes one of the challenge to open more halal restaurants. However, he believes that the prime minister will support the halal label program.

Indian Air Base again attacked Militant

NEW DELHI - The sound of gunfire and explosions broke out again in the Indian Air Force base, Sunday (01/03/2015), after previously being attacked by militants.

Local television channels reported two armed attackers military base adjacent to Pakistan is still at large.

Reuters reports local news channel, the Punjab provincial police said that two gunmen were still hiding in Pathankot air base, one day after a dawn raid yesterday.

An official at India's Home Ministry said that several explosions were heard in Pathankot air base in Punjab. But he could not confirm the reports related to the gunman is still at large.

Meanwhile, the death toll from militant attack that occurred the previous day rose to 10 people. The death toll of four attackers and six military personnel of India.

6.8 magnitude earthquake rattles South Asia, 9 people killed and hundreds Injuries

GUWAHATI - An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale (SR) rocked a number of countries in South Asia this morning. The temporary data, nine people were killed and nearly 200 people were injured.

The quake hit the region of India, Bangladesh, Nepal and partly in the area of ​​Myanmar. Average of those killed were found trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. In addition to destroying the building, the tremor caused uninterruptible power supplies and telecommunications network is disconnected.

The strongest earthquake occurred according to the US Geological Survey in the west of Imphal, India region. The earthquake occurred when many people are still sleeping.

"It was like being adrift in the pan," said Joy Thanglian, 33, an employee of an energy company Bharat Petroleum. "Then we ran out," he said, as quoted by Reuters on Monday (01/04/2016).


The police and hospitals in Imphal stated number of deaths in the hospital up to six people and injured about 100 others. "It was the biggest earthquake we've ever tasted in Imphal," said disaster response workers, Kanarjit Kangujam, told Reuters by telephone.


Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, via Twitter, stating that he was with the authorities in the northeastern region of India, the region which was devastated by an earthquake. Rescuers from Guwahati, a region in the state of Assam, India, rushing to reach Imphal region.

In Bangladesh, three people were killed and 90 others injured in the earthquake. However, there are no reports of damage in the region of the earthquake close to the Myanmar border.

Saudi's reason for waged Tension

TEHRAN - The Iranian government has accused Saudi Arabia looking for a reason to inflame tensions with severed diplomatic ties in response to a mass assault on the Embassy and its Consulates in Iran.

Tehran insists that Iran has committed itself to protect foreign diplomatic missions. Iran also has arrested dozens of people involved in the attack and burning of the Saudi embassy in Tehran.

Iranian demonstrators stormed the Saudi Embassy a few hours after the Saudi authorities executed a Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr. Riyadh to withdraw all diplomatic staff and ordered all Iranian diplomats to leave Saudi within 48 hours.

"Iran is committed to providing diplomatic security guarantees by international conventions. But Saudi Arabia, which fosters tensions have used this incident as an excuse to inflame tensions, "said a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Hossein Ansari Jaberi, Monday (01/04/2016), as quoted by Reuters.

Earlier, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Adel Al-Jubeir, ordered all Iranian diplomats to leave Saudi within 48 hours. "The kingdom (Saudi) in view of this reality, announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Iran and asked the delegation of diplomatic missions of embassies, consulates and offices related to it to leave within 48 hours," he said.


"Ambassador (Iran) had called to tell them," he said again. After the Saudi embassy and consulate in Iran is attacked, Jubeir ask all Saudi diplomat in Baghdad, Iraq, wary. Because, in protest at the execution of Al-Nimr also occurred in Iraq.

Asked whether Saudi will sue Iran at the United Nations over attack its Embassy and Consulates in Iran, Jubeir admitted still thinking about it. "Being studied all the options available, both in the Arab League Organization of the Islamic state or the United Nations," said Jubeir.

ISIS Execution 5 'Spy' English

Raqqa - militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) releases the execution of five men accused of spying for the British. The video was accompanied by threatening messages directed at British Prime Minister, David Cameron.

The execution of 11-minute video has been leaked on social media. In the video appears a man with a British accent-Asian convey narrative aimed at Cameron. Execution was claimed as a reaction to the actions of the British who bombed ISIS base in Syria in the last month.

ISIS executor who wore a balaclava standing near the hostage kneeling and wearing orange jumpsuits. The man who delivered the narrative was accused Cameron as a "slave of the White House" and "donkey Jews".

In his message, the narrator was threatened that ISIS will invade England and Cameron would not have the ability to rescue its citizens.

The video ends with the appearance of the little boy who cried uniformed soldiers; "We're going to kill 'infidels' in there."

Five people were executed aged 25 to 40 years. British intelligence claimed was checking the authenticity of the video footage of the execution. But they declined to comment.

Meanwhile, the British Foreign Office expressed latest video ISIS it is propaganda. The goal is to divert the attention of the supporters of ISIS. "After the group experienced a recent failure in Iraq and the inability to retain people in the territories they control," the ministry statement said, as quoted by Russia Today, Monday (4/1 / 2016).

Australia: Indonesia, ISIS base Future

JAKARTA - Australia warned that ISIS has targeted Indonesia to be the location for a base "caliphate" of his. The warning was conveyed the Australian Attorney General, George Brandis, Tuesday (12/22/2015).

According to him, the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) can form the basis of violence in Indonesia, which he calls the "front door" of Australia. Brandis's statement also refers to the arrests of suspected terrorists in several regions suspected of planning bombings in Jakarta in celebration of the New Year 2016. Those arrested are also suspected terror cell inspired group ISIS.

Brandis said there was "no doubt at all" that Indonesia has become the object of ambition for ISIS has declared caliphate in Afghanistan, Libya and other countries outside Syria and northern Iraq.


"ISIS has ambitions to increase its presence and level of activity in Indonesia, either directly or through surrogates," said Brandis told The Australian.


"You've heard the expression 'caliphate away'? ISIS has the intention to establish a caliphate outside the Middle East, the applicable provincial caliphate. Has identified Indonesia as the location of ambition, "he said again.

Australia has told authorities counter-terrorism, that terrible terror case could happen in Australia if ISIS really make Indonesia as a base.

A stern warning from Brandis came a day after there was talk several ministers of Indonesia and Australia, the chief of police and security officers, where the threat of terrorism became the main focus of the talks.

In Jakarta, Australian Justice Minister, Michael Keenan, said the emergence of ISIS risk to the security of both countries. "The emergence of ISIS in the Middle East is something that has memdestabilisasi security of Australia, that destabilize the security of our friends and partners, especially here in this region," said Keenan.


In the first annual meeting of the Council of Ministers in Jakarta, Australia and Indonesia agreed on counter-terrorism cooperation between the two countries. The cooperation includes the handling of cyber crime, intelligence sharing, technical cooperation and the handling of terrorism financing.