Open AccessAlasan Pemerintah Arab Saudi Mendukung China dalam Kasus Diskriminasi Muslim Uighur
Author(s) -
Yesya Ichsaniah Putri,
Sidiq Ahmadi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
politea/politea : jurnal pemikiran politik islam
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2657-1560
pISSN - 2621-0312
DOI - 10.21043/politea.v4i2.10538
Subject(s) - china , government (linguistics) , scope (computer science) , middle east , political science , islam , qualitative research , qualitative analysis , history , sociology , law , social science , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , programming language , archaeology
This journal article focuses on the issue of discrimination against Uighur Muslims in China. The purpose of this study is to describe the response of Saudi Arabia to the discrimination cases against Uighur Muslims in China. This study also tries to find out the reason behind the response and Saudi Arabia's policies on this issue. This is a qualitative research, using Rational Choice approach to analyze the attitude of Saudi Arabia’s government behind their decision, and the source of analysis come from the articles and journals. Based on the analysis, this research found that there is one strong reason why Saudi Arabia chose to remain silent about the discrimination cases of Uighur Muslims and sided with China when western countries condemned the Chinese government's actions against discrimination Uighur Muslims. Furthermore, this research is limited in scope by only discussing and focusing in economic, so this research can be refined by further research by discussing and focusing on several things that have not been explained in more detail in this study .