The economic diplomacy efforts conducted by the Indonesian government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have yielded significant results, such as Indonesia’s successful leadership in the G20. However, the country’s economic strength in the semiconductor sector is not yet evident. Indonesia is now behind other Asian countries in the semiconductor field. The question arises: how can eco…
International law has recognized the concept of an archipelagic state based on the provisions of Part IV of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS, 1982) which was later ratified by Indonesia through Law Number 17 of 1985 concerning Ratification of the UNCLOS. Thus, the sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction of the Republic of Indonesia over water space…
In November 2016, Indonesia became the world's first VPA partner country to obtain the right to issue FLEGT licenses to accompany exports of verified legal timber and timber products to the EU. This critical milestone in implementing Indonesia's VPA with the EU reflects growing global recognition of Indonesia's timber legality assurance system: the Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu, or SVLK. Thi…
As a tropical archipelagic state, Indonesia is more likely to experience the most substantial impacts and facing the threat of losing its low, small islands to the warming temperature of the planet. By signing the Paris Agreement and ratifying in national law, Indonesia affirmed its commitment to combat climate change. The Updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) has been submitted to …
In 2021, Indonesia and The United States has formed Indonesia – United States Joint Climate Task Force to boost the effort to achieve The Paris Agreement. The United States itself demonstrated its commitment to climate change concerns in 2021, a day after Biden's Inauguration as President of the United States, by re-joining the Paris Agreement after withdrawing its pledge in 2017. Under Biden…
Economic diplomacy has been one of the 4+1 foreign policy priorities 2020-2024 set by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of the Republic of Indonesia. Unfortunately, recent reports in 2020 show that Indonesia's GVC participation still relies on upstream production and limited manufacturing. Thus, despite all the potentials in Southeast Asia, Indonesia still needs to catch up with its lag in…
The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has further emphasized health as a non-traditional security threat exacerbating global security dilemmas and complexity on various aspects of life. The contestation of countries in the world to protect their respective conditions as a priority is inevitable. Many pharmaceutical supplying countries prioritize the allocation of their products to mitigate the pan…
Indonesia is a country rich in diversity and abundant resources. Every region in Indonesia has cultural properties containing moral, wisdom, cultural, and spiritual values. These cultural properties are also known as Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Traditional Cultural Expressions (GRTKTCE). Due to its high moral values and great potential to contribute to the national economy, th…
Indonesia is a party to the Paris Agreement, a commitment in which the world agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Indonesia submitted its first Nationally Determined Contributions or NDC in November 2016, with five years periodical update as mandated by articl…
With existing use cases of blockchain from anticorruption, cybersecurity, even foreign policies and development aid – The government of Indonesia, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can learn such potentials be more efficient, provide better services, respond to the demands for transparency and accountability, thus increase the trust of citizens and nations This paper identifies a…