The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (MoFA RI) needs to take steps following the agreement between Indonesia and Japan to elevate the partnership status from the Strategic Partnership to the comprehensive Strategic Partnership at the 8th Indonesia-Japan Ministerial Level Strategic Dialogue on March 6, 2023, in Tokyo. The formulation of the steps needs to be carried ou…
Diverse issues faced by the missions have to be addressed effectively and efficiently, to reach the optimum goals for economic diplomacy. All aspects of organization need to be addressed to achieve organizational best outcome. An organization would not achieve its goal effectively and efficiently if they focused only on one of the issues. This paper would try to assist the enhancement of Indone…
Support for the advancement of Indonesian SMEs, which number around 65 million, is a main priority for the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, which is also Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (MOFA) main priority in carrying out the economic diplomacy. The economic diplomacy is expected to create business opportunities of businessmen, especially for SMEs. MOFA played roles with various promoti…
Foreign public and private entities have been utilising the Metaverse for economic purposes. However, Indonesia has not fully utilised it. This paper argues that Indonesian Foreign Ministry and diplomats should explore utilisation of the Metaverse to advance Indonesian economic diplomacy. Not doing so may trap Indonesia as a mere market and hinder Indonesia from economic innovation. This pap…
The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers film to be a valuable asset of popular cultural diplomacy. The film industry has the potential to contribute significantly to a country's brand, image, soft power, and creative economy. Through film, Indonesia can promote its nature, culture, values, history, tourism, products, and economy. Indonesian films can compete with foreign films in t…
In the midst of the growing food, energy and climate crises, the issue of water is becoming more strategic. Water not only touches upon people’s daily lives, but also intersects many interests in foreign policy. With its immense capabilities to do more, Indonesia should elevate the issue of water in its foreign policy, in which Kemlu plays a central role by unleashing water diplomacy. This mu…
As one of basic duties of diplomats, reporting continues to play important roles in diplomacy. This means that diplomats every day produce huge amount of data, information, and knowledge which need to be managed and processed to be used for foreign-policy making. The great amounts of information then form collective knowledge or institutional memory of the Ministry. Management of such tremendou…
In ensuring an organization meets its goals, the performance management system (PMS) plays a significant role. It covers an extensive range of mechanisms to convey the key objectives. It involves a focus on actors, an implementation strategy, the development of a measurement system, an objective setting, related and adequate audit systems, and a performance-oriented management system (Bouckaert…
As economic diplomacy constitutes Indonesia’s foreign policy priority, advancing Indonesia’s economic diplomacy in Suriname fits this agenda setting by tapping into potential non-traditional markets. By conducting a literature review research and interviews with related stakeholders of both countries, the policy paper aims at presenting policy recommendations to the Ministry of Foreign Affa…
Buku tersebut berisikan pengetahuan dasar tentang teknik-teknik berkomunikasi, bagaimana memahami media serta kiat-kiat memanfaatkan media sebagai penunjang kegiatan di bidang penerangan.