Indonesia’s Perception and Strategy toward China’s OBOR Expansion: Hedging with Balancing

Mursitama, Tirta Nugraha; Ying, Yao

doi:10.1080/10971475.2020.1809816

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“…Several of the past research has employed theoretical perspectives in investigating Indonesia's strategic reactions. While Mursitama and Ying (2021) use an integrative framework of balancing, bandwagoning, and hedging in exploring Indonesia's strategies towards the BRI, Yeremia (2020) employs the image theory in international relations by investigating Indonesian diplomats and foreign policy scholars' perceptions of China. As for Indonesia's responses to Indo‐Pacific politics, Agastia (2020) employs the role theory for examining Indonesia's national role conception as a middle power within the new Indo‐Pacific structure.…”

Section: Hedging As a State's Strategic Responsementioning

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Indonesia's response to the Belt and Road Initiative and the Indo‐Pacific: A pivotal state's hedging strategy

Yoshimatsu

2022

Asian Politics and Policy

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Regional politics surrounding Southeast Asia has exhibited significant developments with China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and counter initiatives through the Indo-Pacific concept. This article seeks to examine Indonesia's strategic reactions to such regional developments. It argues that Indonesia has exhibited policy responses to the BRI and the Indo-Pacific concept by hedging against uncertainties created by China's economic prowess through the adoption of mutually contradictory policy options. Such a hedging strategy was present in various dimensions: adopting economic accommodation and economic diversification regarding the BRI; taking confrontational strategies in maritime security tensions with China while pursuing economic pragmatism for attracting BRI funds; and restraining reliance on China and its BRI by pushing forwards Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) regional initiative that uses the Indo-Pacific term. The findings indicate that Indonesia's position is crucial for bolstering ASEAN's status as the main regional organization under evolving regional politics.

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Section: Hedging As a State's Strategic Responsementioning

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Indonesia's response to the Belt and Road Initiative and the Indo‐Pacific: A pivotal state's hedging strategy

Yoshimatsu

2022

Asian Politics and Policy

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“…The writer divides these barriers into two characteristics. [13] First, the juridical barriers so that some of these obstacles are related to policies issued by the government, such as the difficulty of implementing Law Number 17 of 2008 concerning Shipping which is intended to create a climate of fair business competition and the emergence of several other regulations that are counterproductive with the aim to be achieved. In addition, there are non-juridical obstacles, such as the inability of the private sector to meet capital requirements to be able to compete with the previous rulers (status quo).…”

Section: Barriers To Creating Efficiency In Indonesian Portsmentioning

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Obstructions and Efforts to Create Port Efficiency in the Perspective of Business Competition Law

Sutanto¹,

Sara²

2022

Proceedings of the First Multidiscipline International Conference, MIC 2021, October 30 2021, Jakarta, Indonesia

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This examination intends to recognize and dissect the snags that cause shortcomings in strategic policies at ports that are uncalled for business rivalry and analyze legitimate cures that can be taken. This kind of exploration standardizes honest examination. There are a few methodologies utilized in this exploration. The lawful interaction to monetary review and regularizing juridical framework. This exploration uses auxiliary information, including essential legitimate materials, optional legal materials, and lawful tertiary materials. In light of the conversation, the essayist can depict a few ends. That there are a few types of strategic approaches and governance arrangements that, eventually, can cause failure in ports. These obstructions are isolated into two properties. The first is juridical obstructions, and the second is non-juridical boundaries. Juridical impediments remember hindrances from government arrangements for the type of guidelines identified with strategic policies in ports and infringement of rivalry law. In the interim, non-juridical obstructions, for example, business structures that permit administrators to play double parts other than as administrators, the powerlessness of the private area to contribute and the event of unlawful exact, so the expenses caused are charged to products which trigger high costs. As an answer for these issues, a few endeavors can be taken. Legitimate endeavors that can be taken to make productivity in ports are law requirements against guidelines that are considered satisfactory, however not yet decisive, trailed by streamlining the job of establishments that have the position to complete oversight.

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“…As Chinese investments grow rapidly in Indonesia, there are some interesting developments in the Indonesia-China trade relationship. With the implementation of BRI projects, there has been a shift from a state-led Governmentto-Government (G2G) scheme [51] to a Business-to-Business (B2B) scheme [52,53]. Although such an arrangement reduces the burden on government, the monitoring of the B2B scheme is more difficult, especially if the companies involved are not listed.…”

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Mitigating social-ecological risks from the surge in China’s overseas investment: an Indonesian profile

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Rapid development has become a global priority as countries strive to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Sustainable development is crucial for increasing human well-being in emerging economies while avoiding perverse outcomes on livelihoods, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promises to help countries reach their national goals for economic growth, trade, and development, but there remain widespread concerns over how this boom in Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) will impact social-ecological systems. Here, we discuss the risks implicit in BRI-related FDI projects to ecosystems and local communities, and how these risks can be mitigated or exacerbated by national governance of BRI projects and national development policies. We frame our discussion around Indonesia, where convoluted governance of some of the largest Chinese FDI projects may reduce accountability, and a recent job creation law brings risks of rapid unsustainable development practices across this biodiversity hotspot.

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Indonesia’s Perception and Strategy toward China’s OBOR Expansion: Hedging with Balancing

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Indonesia's response to the Belt and Road Initiative and the Indo‐Pacific: A pivotal state's hedging strategy

Indonesia's response to the Belt and Road Initiative and the Indo‐Pacific: A pivotal state's hedging strategy

Obstructions and Efforts to Create Port Efficiency in the Perspective of Business Competition Law

Mitigating social-ecological risks from the surge in China’s overseas investment: an Indonesian profile

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