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Recalibrating Indonesia’s strategic defense policy towards the NPT: Rescinding the indefinite discrimination
This paper argues that the Indonesian government needs to adjust its defence strategy in line with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the cornerstone of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime for over fifty years. However, despite the NPT's three pillars of preventing proliferation, promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy and disarmament, its credibility is under threat due to ongoing proliferation efforts, nationalism, great power competition, the spread of nuclear weapons technology and polarisation among member states. This is evident in the strict non-proliferation and arms control regulations imposed on Non-Nuclear Weapons States (NNWS), while Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) face no such verification of their compliance with disarmament obligations. The world's nuclear-armed states currently possess nearly 13,500 nuclear warheads, over 90% of which belong to the US and Russia. The paper says that the NPT's indefinite extension cannot be interpreted as indefinite possession of nuclear weapons or indefinite disarmament process. It does this through three main analyses. These are the NPT's implementation and discriminative nature, the absence of verification on nuclear disarmament, and the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). As coordinator of the NAM Working Group on Disarmament, Indonesia is expected to strengthen resources against the imbalanced implementation of the NPT and fulfil its commitment to a world without nuclear weapons.
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