Assessing the geopolitical obstacles that the Indonesian Presidency of the G20 faced, commentators have praised Indonesian diplomats and their members of the foreign ministry for pulling off what critics have deemed a “diplomatic success”.
The risks faced by LGBTQIA+ people from all over the world with regards to this year’s World Cup are great, but the risks the local community are faced with are even greater.
“The dismissal makes me question whether the institution really has staff and students’ interests at heart, or whether they see us only as a disposable cog in a wider machine.”
It seemed relevant to me that one of the most famous anti-totalitarian authors in the world had chosen to share a stage with a man complicit in a police-state repression of demonstrators