Editing Politics of Indonesia (section)

==Foreign relations==
{{main|Foreign relations of Indonesia}}
During the regime of president Suharto, Indonesia built strong relations with the [[United States]] and had difficult relations with the [[China|People's Republic of China]] owing to Indonesia's anti-communist policies and domestic tensions with the Chinese community. It received international denunciation for its annexation of [[East Timor]] and the related [[East Timor genocide|genocide]] against the East Timorese in 1978. Indonesia is a founding member of the [[Association of South East Asian Nations]], and thereby a member of both [[ASEAN+3]] and the [[East Asia Summit]].

Since the 1980s, Indonesia has worked to develop close political and economic ties between Southeast Asian countries, and is also influential in the [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation]]. Indonesia was heavily criticised between 1975 and 1999 for allegedly suppressing [[human rights in East Timor]], and for supporting violence against the East Timorese following the latter's secession and independence in 1999. Since 2001, the government of Indonesia has co-operated with the US in cracking down on [[Islamic fundamentalism]] and terrorist groups.