Indonesia’s government said it rejected a Western-led proposal to debate China’s alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang as it seeks to avoid the “politicization” of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
A total of 17 countries voted in favor, 19 were against, and 11 abstained in a vote to debate the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) suppression of Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang.
Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, was among those 19 nations that voted against the motion, besides Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Pakistan.
Febrian Ruddyard, Indonesia’s permanent representative to the U.N., said the motion would “not yield meaningful progress” because it “does not enjoy the consent and support of the concerned country,” Benar News reported….