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Strengthening Indonesia’s trade diplomacy in the Pacific to secure national sovereignty
This paper proposes elevating trade diplomacy as a core pillar of Indonesia's Pacific strategy to strengthen influence and trust amid intensifying geopolitical competition with implications for Papua-related narratives. Although Indonesia has built strong diplomatic goodwill through development cooperation, its trade presence in the Pacific—particularly in Melanesia—lags behind key partners due to limited policy instruments and low private sector participation. The study recommends a dual-track approach: (I) enhancing preferential trade frameworks, and (II) prioritizing regular, reciprocal buying missions as a practical, low-cost instrument to activate private sector engagement and build sustained commercial relationships. First-year implementation proposes a niche product database and mini trade missions to strengthen long-term economic interdependence and reduce Indonesia's diplomatic vulnerabilities in the Pacific.
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