The Brazilian government, as chair of the BRICS in 2025, announced on Jan. 6 that Indonesia is now the tenth full member of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). The BRICS organization has become a pillar in the fight for a new world paradigm. Indonesia had been invited to join at the Aug. 22-24, BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the first major expansion of the group, but only now, with Jakarta’s new government having assumed office in October 2024, has the earlier invitation been accepted and agreed to by all the BRICS members. Another 12 nations were invited to become partners of the BRICS (a new category of membership) at the Kazan, Russia summit over Oct. 22-24, 2024.
China embraced Indonesia’s membership in the BRICS immediately. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun stated in his briefing Jan. 7, “China warmly welcomes the new addition to the BRICS family.
“The BRICS cooperation mechanism came into being amidst the collective rise of emerging markets and developing countries,” said Guo. “It is also what the world would like to see in the interest of peace, the world’s common development and better global governance. Almost two decades on since the launch of BRICS, it now accounts for nearly half of the global population, more than a third of the global economy and more than half of the world’s economic growth.” Emphasizing that BRICS seeks “a community with a shared future for all,” Guo stated that the “future holds tremendous promise for greater BRICS cooperation.”
