Tourism village is among the most essential instruments of tourism diplomacy. After defining the concept of a tourism village, this paper will examine how tourism village diplomacy is necessary as a complementary element of a nation's foreign policy. This paper will further argue that tourism villages will support sustainable development that can preserve the environment, culture and history, e…
Global food security are facing multiple challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and the climate change has causes a series of shocks and have causes a reversal of progress in several economic and social dimensions, including food security and agricultural productivity. Indonesia is definitely not immune to this, Indonesia's food secur…
Indonesia submitted the updated NDC and the Long-Term Strategy on Low Carbon and Climate Resilience 2050 (LTS-LCCR 2050) documents to the UNFCC. Indonesia set its vision to achieving net zero emission no later than 2060. Carbon pricing considered as the most effective alternative from economic perspective. Carbon pricing is increasingly recognized as important source of funding as it can gen…
This paper tries to analyze how to optimize Indonesia’s public diplomacy by strengthening the Indonesian Language for Foreign Speakers Program (Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing/BIPA). The Indonesian language is spoken by about 269 million people of the total of Indonesia’s population (Badan Bahasa, 2022). The Indonesian language is the national language of Indonesia, where it is spoken n…
Indonesia’s creative economy diplomacy has been successful in gaining its support and reputation with the decision on The United Nations to declared 2021 as a year of Sustainable Creative Economy and hosting World Conference on Creative Economy. Therefore it is time to use it as leverage and implement it for concrete actions in economic diplomacy. Animation as a sub-sector creative economy…
Indonesia is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of palm oil. In 2018 the European Union (EU) passed the revision of its Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) in their bid to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and deforestation while increasing the use of renewable energy. RED II and its Delegated Regulation policies have implicitly placed palm oil as a major cause of G…
The significant role of culture in diplomacy has been recognized and its achievements and success stories are the evidence. Cultural diplomacy can take various shapes from arts exhibition, gastronomy, performing traditional music and dances to offering language courses and education exchange. Indonesia has many cultural potentials that should be advantageous to Indonesia's cultural diplomacy an…
Outbound Investment is not a new concept for global economic players, and Indonesia has just started to gear up its effort enhanced with Government’s backed. Indonesian State-Owned Enterprises (SoE) outbound investment in 2019 valued at US$ 17.5 billion, while the world reached the value of outward investment US$ 1.54 trillion. UNCTAD recorded there was a 40% decrease of global direct investm…
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the fundamental weakness that existed in the global health system which offers inadequate protection from pandemics, from the issues of the gross inequity in global vaccine distribution to the ‘me-first’ approaches that left the most vulnerable people and nations without vaccines, medicines, and health equipment. All prevention, preparedness, detection, an…
The President's declaration to enhance economic cooperation with Africa gives new direction to relevant stakeholders in Indonesia to prioritize the collaboration with countries in Africa. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs followed up this direction by organizing the Indonesia Africa Forum (IAF) in 2018 and the Indonesia-Africa Infrastructure Dialogue (IAID) in 2019. The IAF resulted in business d…