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…
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has longed sought to acquire nuclear arsenals for what it perceives as a form of survival and deterrent from the US nuclear threat and invasion. After numerous nuclear and missile tests, the DPRK is assumed to have the technology and capability to launch a nuclear strike to the US with its latest Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Various …
We are living in the era of a digitally hyper-connected world where cybersecurity is becoming a front and center issue for all of us, not only in the hands of IT officers or specialists. Recently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Republic of Indonesia faced a serious bracing of its computer system, forcing it to shut down for almost three months, from the last week of January 202…
The debate about the need for Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN) to be established in 2024 has brought further discourse about whether a country like Indonesia needs to focus more on immediate needs during this troubling time and forsake the need for long-term goals such as infrastructure. This paper will dwell on the discourse of whether Indonesia needs to abandon its infrastructure development due to t…
As the sustainable development and its three pillars (economic growth, environmental protection and social integrity) arises in the international discourse, the issue of sustainability gains currency in an all-encompassing field. The notion of sustainability standard has entered into international trade through certification. Especially in the international trade of nature-based commodities, su…