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Yogyakarta - Leaders of Political Parties, religious leaders, academics, and policymakers and religions from all over the world who are members of the Centrist Democrat International (CDI) gathered in Yogyakarta to attend the Executive Committee Meeting which takes place from 22 and 25 January 2020. The National Awakening Party (PKB) from Indonesia hosted this meeting. The meeting discussed the opportunities and challenges arising from the rolling process of forming a new world order which is likely to make Eurasia - the integration of Europe and Asia into a "supercontinent" as its focal point. Secretary-General of the Nahdlatul Ulama Council, K.H. Yahya Cholil Staquf said at a CDI meeting Thursday (24/1) that religious values ​​need to be well realized to encourage an international order based on human values.

"We need to articulate the widespread of acknowledgment of universal ethics and humanitarian frameworks and also that we need to empower the potential of religion such as western humanism, Christian democracy, and Islam. We need to empower this to serve as a foundation for the 21st-century alliance to promote a rules-based international order about universal ethics and humanitarian values," he said.

Meanwhile the National Awakening Party Chairman, Muhaimin Iskandar said, the Eurasia Forum was an unprecedented opportunity for world leaders to form 21st century alliances. He said, such an alliance would be realized based on shared human and universal values ​​that underlie their respective religious and cultural traditions. (VOI/FAISAL)