In Indonesia on December 22, 2018, a tsunami wave appeared without meteorological warning and swallowed more than 222 people in a single moment while partying at a concert.

The Turkey-U.S. Joint Working Group will meet in Washington on January 8 to discuss the U.S.' withdrawal from Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Friday. Çavuşoğlu announced that there were three joint working groups between Turkey and the U.S. “We are going to discuss the U.S. withdrawal from Syria, and how to coordinate it together in these meetings,"

Malaysia Rejection on ICERD (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) on December 8, known as action 812, was also becoming debate in Indonesia the neighboring country.

In November and December 2018 there have been two significant studies that challenge the idea that women have equality and have progressed in their rights under Liberal Democratic Values. In a study entitled, “Why women have less power than you think” by Laura Jones for the Global Institute for Women's Leadership, the idea of more representation of women in power is questioned in terms of what it actually gives women.