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Originally Posted by Bugeater
Huh, I thought Indonesia was listed.
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Nope. Just did a search to confirm.
So what makes a country high visibility? It seems to me like the main reasons are:
1) projecting power on the world stage (e.g., Russia, the USA, UK).
2) tourism (France, Italy, Maldives)
3) having problems (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria)
4) maybe being part of the Anglo-American club (e.g., Australia, Canada) or being "western"/white (e.g., Hungary, Sweden)
5) maybe being industrialized (e.g., Japan, Taiwan)
Indonesia doesn't really work in any of those areas other than maybe Bali as a tourist destination. It makes me wonder whey they don't try to project power in their region.
Turkey is a bit of the same, though I tend to think of Turkey as being reasonably active on the international front.