Indonesia’s Digital Diplomacy: Problems and Challenges

Madu, Ludiro

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“…Such new sort of diplomacy was practiced in order to pursue national interests such as protecting indonesian citizens abroad (Dharossa & Rezasyah, 2020). The prospects, problems and challenges of Indonesia's digital diplomacy under the President Joko Widodo were assessed by Syaifani and Qubba (2017) and Madu (2018). Despite the increased use of internet, digital diplomacy was mainly played by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in Indonesia's international relations.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paradiplomacy of Indonesian Sub-State Actor: Digital Diplomacy of Jakarta Government in Response to Covid-19

Luerdi

2021

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The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused challenges to international affairs in term of health, economy, politics and security in addition to the changes of interaction between actors. Jakarta, one of the regional governments within the unitary state of Indonesia and a capital city of the state, projected its paradiplomacy in response to the pandemic. Its status as a lower administration below the national government did not prevent it from paying active efforts taking advantage of internet and digital technology development. The paper aims to describe Jakarta government’s paradiplomatic practice in responding to the COVID-19. The study applies the qualitative method with a descriptive analysis. In order to describe the regional government’s paradiplomacy, the study utilizes the concept of paradiplomacy and digital diplomacy. The findings show that Jakarta government carried out digital diplomacy as the form of its paradiplomacy in a number of activities such as providing reliable information, collaborating with foreign communities, participating in global forum, releasing gubernatorial message, improving data platform capability and initiating an international forum at home. Such internet-supported activities were meant to share experience, collaborate and provide transparency. Paradiplomacy through digital diplomacy activities was mainly conducted to gain trust to the regional government from its international audiences and create an image that Jakarta was a crisis-proof city and the part of global community. The paper argues that sub-national governments’ roles in international affairs are becoming important thanks to a new room for diplomacy practices, strengthened by unprecedented global crises.

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Paradiplomacy of Indonesian Sub-State Actor: Digital Diplomacy of Jakarta Government in Response to Covid-19

Luerdi

2021

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“…Digital diplomacy, according to Hanson, has 8 general objectives: (1) knowledge management in which digital diplomacy is used to gather information from all stakeholders to achieve institutional objectives; (2) to do public diplomacy (to keep communication with citizens living abroad and to influence other online medias as well by: (3) Information management: to manage information and to use information in decision making and in responding towards development of social and political situations: (4) Communication and consular responses: to conduct communication with citizens living abroad for important, critical and emergency situations; (5) Disaster responses: to be used as communication in disaster countermeasures ; (6) Internet free do to be used as a platform to evaluate freedom of expression and democracy; (7) External resource: to enlarge opportunities to achieve national interests; and (8) Policy planning to be used for optimizing coordination and planning process in achieving national interests [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(2) blog or microblog in which users may freely express feelings, experience, statements, and even critics such as twitter; (3) contents in which users in the web may reciprocally share multimedia contents such as ebooks, videos, photos, pictures, etc such as youtube; (4) social network sites in which users are allowed to be connected by making and sharing private information such as facebook; (5) virtual game world in which users appear on avatar form using 3D application and use the avatar form to interact with others in real interaction, as in online game; (6) virtual social world is an application in the form of virtual world to interact with other as in second life [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Westcott (2008) conducted a research about the influence of internet use towards international relation [4]. Meanwhile Adesina (2017) conducted research about digital diplomacy and foreign policy, Madu (2018) studied problems and challenges of digital diplomacy in Indonesia [5] [6]. Other researchers having interests about digital diplomacy are Melissen (2017) who studied critical digital diplomacy, Viona (2018) who studied benefits and risks of digital diplomacy, Asadi (2017 and 2021) conducted researches about the roles of digital medias on democracy, and lastly Wright and Guemna (2020) studied gender and digital diplomacy in Europe [7] [8] [9] [10].…”

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Social Media, Public Participation, and Digital Diplomacy

Darmastuti¹,

Inayah²,

Simbolon³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2nd International Indonesia Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies (IICIS 2021)

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Social media may have roles in improving government performance in digital diplomacy, roles which may be performed by government or non-government actors. The success of Indonesia's digital diplomacy may be achieved through public or community participation. This research put emphasis on public participation of the Indonesians in digital diplomacy through their uses of social media (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Youtube), Websites, and Applications made by the Government. This research uses documents as the main source of data. Research results show that Indonesians, both in Indonesia and abroad, especially through diaspora organizations, participate in promoting Indonesia, thus participating in digital diplomacy for the interests of Indonesia. The results also that high uses of internets by Indonesians (48% out of 270 millions) is an opportunity for further public participation in digital diplomacy, especially for public aspiration articulation, decision making, and communication involving stakeholders on public diplomacy. It is also an opportunity for publics and government to access data from other countries, to promote Indonesia to foreign countries. However, high uses of internet and social media by Indonesians can also be used by radicals to spread their ideas, for foreign actors to attack Indonesian domestic interests, to spread pornographic contents, and online frauds, both domestically or in international arenas.

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“…Numerous uncertainties remained uncovered in the area of Indonesia's digital diplomacy. Previous studies have attempted to address Indonesia's diplomacy, for instance Indonesia's middle-power diplomacy during the pandemic (Triwibowo & Martha, 2021), Indonesia's soft power (Sukma, 2011), the practice of digital diplomacy of Indonesia (Madu, 2018;Syaifani & Qubba, 2018;and Wangke, 2020), and Indonesia's G20 analysis perspectives (Sulisto, 2021& Sundararaman, 2020. Previous research on the use of social media for digital diplomacy and public participation has been conducted by Darmastuti, Inayah, Simbolon, and Nizar (2021).…”

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Indonesia’s G20 Presidency 2022: Connecting Soft Power and Digital Diplomacy Practice on Instagram

Intentilia¹

2022

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The purpose of this paper is to answer two research questions. The first one is how Indonesia utilizes culture as the soft power resource in G20 Presidency 2022 and the second one is the practice of Indonesia’s digital diplomacy on Instagram in G20 Presidency 2022. This research utilizes two conceptual frameworks, the concept of soft power and its cultural element, as well as the concept of public and digital diplomacy. The methodology used in this paper is a qualitative method. The primary data are gathered from Indonesia’s government statements and an official Instagram account that has been verified, @indonesia.g20, as a purposive sample. The secondary data of this article are taken from academic journals and e-books. All data used in this research are limited from December 2021 until May 2022 as part of the early phase of Indonesia’s G20 Presidency. The findings of this research are: (i) Indonesia uses the element of culture as part of promoting its soft power at the global stage through G20 by using cultural element in the G20 Presidency logo; (ii) the strategic issues regarding culture are combined with performances to showcase the variety of Indonesia’s cultural actors and communities; (iii) the practice of digital diplomacy, in terms of agenda-setting, has used three methods to spread information regarding the G20 agendas: by providing technical information, explaining substantive messages of G20 priority areas, and inviting active engagement through quizzes on G20 issues; and (iv) digital diplomacy on @indonesia.g20 Instagram account has covered the involvement of non-state actors.

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Indonesia’s Digital Diplomacy: Problems and Challenges

Cited by 7 publications

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Paradiplomacy of Indonesian Sub-State Actor: Digital Diplomacy of Jakarta Government in Response to Covid-19

Paradiplomacy of Indonesian Sub-State Actor: Digital Diplomacy of Jakarta Government in Response to Covid-19

Social Media, Public Participation, and Digital Diplomacy

Indonesia’s G20 Presidency 2022: Connecting Soft Power and Digital Diplomacy Practice on Instagram

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