Indonesia's ‘Great Power’ Aspirations: A Critical View

Fealy, Gregory; White, Hugh

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“…National interests of Indonesia and Saudi Arabia in protecting national economy and security as well as less consistency of domestic politics (in Indonesian context) will reduce their leadership capacity like how Fealy and White doubted Indonesia's regional role after the New Order [7]. Frictions among national leaders will influence international diplomacy and regional leadership in constructing prosperous and peaceful region.…”

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“…They said "there remain very significant hurdles to be overcome before Indonesia could effectively function as a great power in the Asian strategic system. Its armed forces remain overwhelmingly focused on internal security and seem, under Jokowi, less focused on building up external capabilities" [1]. The World Bank reported that GDP of Indonesian growth increased from 4.9 in 2015 to 5.1 in 2017.…”

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Muslim Leadership and the Threats of Transnational Terrorism: Comparing Indonesia and Saudi Arabia

Sholeh¹

2018

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICSPS 2017)

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Abstract-Indonesia and Saudi Arabia are two important Muslim countries which have taken a strategic role in managing regional leadership in Southeast Asia and the Middle East respectively. They are leading regional diplomacy in maintaining stability, security, and peace. Indonesia and Saudi Arabia are two of three Muslim countries joined G20. The third country is Turkey. Both countries actively involved in constructing regional organization, democratization and preventing the rise of transnational terrorism threats. Saudi Arabia is leading country of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), political and economic alliances of six Gulf countries. In addition, Indonesia is significant leader in ASEAN and Asia Pacific region. Both countries are challenged by the rise of transnational terrorism threats. Great power context in this paper comes from economic posture and regional leadership in shaping security, especially combatting transnational terrorism. This paper examines the role of Indonesia and Saudi Arabia in regional leadership, and how they lead a regional cooperation on countering terrorism in each region.

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Muslim Leadership and the Threats of Transnational Terrorism: Comparing Indonesia and Saudi Arabia

Sholeh¹

2018

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICSPS 2017)

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“…Indonesia is neither strengthening its power projection capability nor building a coalition to address China's growing aggressiveness in the South China Sea (or at least to fulfill its security goal). In fact, as noted by Fealy and White (), Indonesian military modernization is not focused on maritime or power projection capabilities, which are needed to confront or check China's growing threat in the South China Sea. Instead, it is focused on strengthening the army to improve internal security functions.…”

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What Threat? Leadership, Strategic Culture, and Indonesian Foreign Policy in the South China Sea

Sulaiman¹

2019

Asian Politics and Policy

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Why is there no balancing behavior in Southeast Asia vis‐à‐vis what many observers see as a “Chinese threat,” especially in the case of Indonesia? Despite all the concerns regarding the stability of the region, Indonesia is neither strengthening its power projection capability nor building a coalition to address China's growing power in the South China Sea. Indonesia's underbalancing behavior is the result of a strategic culture that influences its military and foreign policy thinking on threat perceptions and economic considerations, limiting the options that Indonesia can take vis‐à‐vis China. As a result, China as a state is not seen as a major, direct, and immediate threat that would warrant immediate action that may in turn jeopardize Indonesia's larger interest. Instead, domestic politics and security—especially public perceptions of how the government's friendship with China may benefit or hurt the government—remains the focus and the priority of the government.

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“…Given its size, strategic location and economic potential as well as its success in navigating democratization culminating in the country's designation as an emerging democratic power, there has been increased interest among scholars in understanding the nature of Indonesian foreign policy. The extent to which Indonesia can seek a leadership role at the global level remains inconclusive where some see Indonesia indeed has played a greater role (Acharya 2014;Laksmana 2011) while others are not convinced (Fealy and White 2016;McRae 2014). Furthermore, in light of the democratization process, most recent studies on Indonesian foreign policy focus on how the democratization process shapes Indonesian foreign policy outcomes (Dosch 2008;Ruland 2010).…”

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Role conflict and the limits of state identity: the case of Indonesia in democracy promotion

Karim

2016

The Pacific Review

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This paper aims to analyse why Indonesia projects democracy as a state identity by taking on the role of democracy promoter? This paper argues that Indonesia's aspiring role as a democracy promoter is not a manifestation of a firm and coherent democratic political culture, which is more likely to be a permanent feature of states. Thus, rather than seeing it as firmly established state identity, instead, Indonesia's democratic identity should be seen as role conception articulated by foreign policy elites in its quest for international prestige. Its role as a democracy promoter has enabled Indonesia to enhance its other roles conceptions such as an intellectual leader in ASEAN as well as a bridge-builder at the global level. However, this paper further argues that Indonesia's role as a democracy promoter has also been hindered due to the inter-role conflicts arising from its enactment of multiple roles. As a result, Indonesia's enactment of the role as democracy promoter have relatively less impactful towards democratisation in the region. To substantiate this argument, the paper examines Indonesia's strategies in promoting democracy and human rights in three case studies, namely Indonesia's role in mainstreaming human rights in ASEAN, Indonesia's democracy promotion through the Bali Democracy Forum, and Indonesia's engagement toward democratization in Myanmar.

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Indonesia's ‘Great Power’ Aspirations: A Critical View

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Muslim Leadership and the Threats of Transnational Terrorism: Comparing Indonesia and Saudi Arabia

Muslim Leadership and the Threats of Transnational Terrorism: Comparing Indonesia and Saudi Arabia

What Threat? Leadership, Strategic Culture, and Indonesian Foreign Policy in the South China Sea

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