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Optimizing Indonesian Aid and technical assistance as important instruments of diplomacy in Africa

This paper aims to analyze the role of Indonesian Aid and technical assistance as soft power to achieve diplomatic objectives in Africa. Since its establishment in 2019, Indonesian Aid is trying to reformulate the exercise of Indonesian soft power with the ideal to centralize all grants and technical assistance to beneficiaries. However, it has not yet fulfilled its full potential because there are some compromising factors, such as: lack of foreign policy elements, dispersed target, long bureaucracy, absence of information on potential counterparts, and different regulations. Indonesian Aid has not addressed these issues because its function, based on the Minister of Finance Regulation, focuses only on managing endowment fund.

Under these circumstances and by using specific terms like Indonesian Aid, grants and technical assistance, soft power, and international aid and development, this paper will analyze on how to optimize the role of Indonesian Aid with Africa as the center of analysis. There are four reasons why Africa is important in the discussion of international development cooperation. First, it has been the target of President Joko Widodo in terms of export destination. Second, Africa is also mentioned in the annual press statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs as the main target of Indonesian development cooperation. Thirdly, its nature as continent consists of Less Income Countries makes it naturally considered as potential beneficiaries. Last, focus on Africa reflects strategic follow up of Indonesia-Africa Forum (IAF) in 2018 and Indonesia-Africa Infrastructure Dialogue (IAID) in 2019. Moreover, Africa meets the criteria of prioritized beneficiaries as stated in Minister for Foreign Affairs Regulation No. 15/2020.

Based on the analysis, this paper provides at least three policy choices to optimize Indonesian Aid and technical assistance, which are: revitalizing foreign policy element of Indonesian Aid, building reliable bank data, and integrating Indonesian Aid into Indonesian public diplomacy. From the choices, it recommends Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia (Indonesian MoFA) to start working on building reliable bank data as the first step to help Indonesian Aid Working Group making assessment faster while taking more proactive policy. Meanwhile, the other two policy choices should also be implemented in longer future. All three policies are necessary to help optimizing Indonesian Aid and technical assistance as the important instrument of diplomacy to achieve Indonesian diplomatic objectives in the region.

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Sesdilu 74-2023
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