Economic diplomacy has been one of the 4+1 foreign policy priorities 2020-2024 set by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of the Republic of Indonesia. Unfortunately, recent reports in 2020 show that Indonesia's GVC participation still relies on upstream production and limited manufacturing. Thus, despite all the potentials in Southeast Asia, Indonesia still needs to catch up with its lag in…
The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized health as a non-traditional security threat exacerbating global security dilemmas and complexity on various aspects of life. The contestation of countries in the world to protect their respective conditions as a priority is inevitable. Many pharmaceutical supplying countries prioritize the allocation of their products to mitigate the pan…
Indonesia is a country rich in diversity and abundant resources. Every region in Indonesia has cultural properties containing moral, wisdom, cultural, and spiritual values. These cultural properties are also known as Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Traditional Cultural Expressions (GRTKTCE). Due to its high moral values and great potential to contribute to the national economy, th…
Indonesia is a party to the Paris Agreement, a commitment in which the world agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Indonesia submitted its first Nationally Determined Contributions or NDC in November 2016, with five years periodical update as mandated by articl…
With existing use cases of blockchain from anticorruption, cybersecurity, even foreign policies and development aid – The government of Indonesia, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can learn such potentials be more efficient, provide better services, respond to the demands for transparency and accountability, thus increase the trust of citizens and nations This paper identifies a…