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Indonesia Highlights: Chief of Myanmar’s Military Junta Heads to Jakarta For ASEAN Summit | Belitong Geopark Wins UNESCO Global Geopark Designation | New Indonesian Island Found After Cyclone Seroja |

April 18, 2021, 10.28 AM

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Jakarta is bracing for tensions as it hosts an ASEAN Summit on April 24, as the head of Myanmar’s military junta is expected to come to the high-level meeting.

Indonesia will add another landmark on the global map, after the Beliton Geopark wins UNESCO Global Geopark Designation, after it lost its bid for the designation last week.

And Indonesia will add another island to the more than 17 thousand isles that make up the archipelago, after the speck of land was sighted off East Nusa Tenggara Province’s [NTT] Rote Ndao regency in the wake of Cyclone Seroja last week. This and more on Indonesia Highlights:

Chief of Myanmar’s Military Junta Heads to Jakarta For ASEAN Summit

Indonesia and other ASEAN member countries’ ambiguous stand on the Myanmar crisis is expected to come to a head, after the chief of the country's military or Tatmadaw, General Min Aung Hlaing, will attend an ASEAN summit in Jakarta next week.

The meeting is the first encounter between Min and other ASEAN leaders, since the junta seized power from democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government last February.

The AFP news agency reported that Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs brought up Min’s attendance to the meeting on Saturday, April 17.

“Several [ASEAN] leaders have confirmed their attendance including Myanmar’s MAH [Min Aung Hlaing] ,” AFP quoted Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tanee Sangrat as saying of the meeting, which will take place in the Indonesian capital on April 24.

AFP also reported that the summit is part of efforts by ASEAN leaders to maintain communications with the junta.

Reports of Min’s attendance occurred, after an anonymous Myanmar official informed AFP that the junta will release over 23 thousand prisoners nationwide.

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