TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Tempo English rounded the top three news on Friday, January 12, 2024. Here are the highlights: Top 10 Richest Countries in the World by GDP per Capita in 2023, Top 10 Countries with Most Islands; Indonesia Ranks 6th, and Jokowi's Visit to the Philippines Welcomed by Death Row Inmate's Family Begging for Release.

The following is the list of the top 3 news on Tempo English today:

1. Top 10 Richest Countries in the World by GDP per Capita in 2023

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) annually publishes data on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita of all countries in the world. GDP per capita is a measure of a country's total economic output divided by the country's total population and is often used as an indicator of the welfare of the country's population.

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2. Top 10 Countries with Most Islands; Indonesia Ranks 6th

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - As an archipelago, Indonesia is known as the country with one of the highest number of islands. However, there are several countries with more islands than Indonesia.

According to worldatlas.com, Sweden is ranked first in the list of countries with the most number of islands with 267,570 islands. Stockholm Archipelago in Sweden houses 30,000 islands, of which around 200 are inhibited.

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3. Jokowi's Visit to the Philippines Welcomed by Death Row Inmate's Family Begging for Release

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Joko Widodo or Jokowi's visit to the Philippines was greeted with an appeal from the family of death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso. The demonstration took place at the Mendiola Bridge in Manila on Wednesday, January 10, 2024.

Mary Jane is a Filipino citizen arrested in Indonesia for drug trafficking in 2010 and then sentenced to death. Granted a temporary reprieve in 2015, she is still on death row and has been imprisoned for 14 years.

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