The beheading of Ruutu Binti Satubi—who was executed in Saudi Arabia in June for murdering her allegedly insulting Saudi employer—sparked such a backlash in Indonesia. Even the biggest supporters of Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi Islam in Indonesia are questioning how the guardians of the most sacred Islamic sites be so neglectful of their religion’s call for sympathy. The beheading triggered angry protests in front of the Saudi Embassy and in another places.

The Indonesian government, complaining it didn’t receive any advance notification of Satubi’s beheading, called back its ambassador from Riyadh. The country also declared a halt to labor exports to Saudi Arabia from August 1st.

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China’s Vice President Xi Jinping on Wednesday said that his country is ready to enhance its strategic cooperation with Indonesia. Mr. Xi made the comments during talks with a visiting delegation of Indonesia’s Functional Group Party in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Noting that both Indonesia and China are major developing nations, the vice president said that they share broader common interests. He said that the advancement of strategic cooperation is in the interests of the two nations and beneficial to stability, peace and development in the region and the world. The Indonesian delegation was led by Aburizal Bakrie, the chairman of the Functional Group Party.

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