Saudi Arabia’s influence in South-East Asia – too embedded to be disrupted?


Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished after entering Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul for official documents ahead of his upcoming wedding to his Turkish fiancee.PHOTO: AFP.

THE revelation of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder inside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey is harming Saudi Arabia’s international relations, including with Muslim-majority South-East Asian countries Malaysia and Indonesia.

Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad closed the Saudi-backed King Salman Centre for International Peace (KSCIP). Malaysia is also withdrawing troops from Saudi Arabia.

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