Would be good to see countries like Indonesia, share their experiences with the Afghans, considering how large of a country Indonesia is and how its governed.
Actually Jusuf Kalla, Indonesia former Vice President, has good relationship with them. As Indonesian Islamist leader, Yusuf Kalla, also has some kind of spiritual basis to talk about Islam with them beside discussing and giving experience about state building. I believe Yusuf Kalla has a big role to moderate previous Taliban Islamic version as Today we see different Taliban.
It is interesting to see what will happen next in relation with Indonesia, as far as what has been going on, our government has build mosque and hospital there, and also offering scholarship for Afghan to study in Indonesia university. We are also quite active to build peace process there as Taliban spoke person also has admitted.
I would say next new administration will likely our administration have more willingness to help Afghanistan, this is because until 2024 I believe our current government will be focusing more on internal problem, particularly to boost the economy, curb Covid infection, giving more economic assistance to our poor people, and also do many structural reform.
While for the case of our civil society, they will likely come and give help through several Islamic organization. Second biggest Islamic organization in Indonesia, Muhammadiyah, for instant just open a university in Malaysia recently. Malaysia is not a poor nation as we all know. I believe they will likely open a university in Afghanistan as well.
After 2024, I think we will likely to start to look beyond our internal and regional (ASEAN and Asia Pacific) issues. It is because internally, many of our problems like in relation with structural reform and major infrastructure construction will likely been completed in the end of Jokowi term. RCEP deal has also been completed.
IMO Indonesia should be more active in Muslim problem and issues, not just focusing on our internal problem and ASEAN issues. The chance to get President with Islamist point of view or at least close to Islamic sentiment is also quite high in our next Presidential election. This kind of President will likely have more connection with Islamic world compared to nationalist one, despite Jokowi administration is already quite active to broker peace process within Afghan factions.
