In order to strengthen Indonesia’s leadership and contribution at the regional and global level, the country has been playing an active and constructive role representing developing countries as well as a “middle-power” to help find ways and solutions to address common-shared issues. Indonesia along with “like-minded, middle-power” countries saw the need to find innovative approaches …
In line with the main priorities of President Joko Widodo in foreign policy to focus on economic diplomacy with the aim to bring economic benefit for Indonesian through trade and investment, as well as to support national development programs, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia has been actively pursuing policies, activities and initiative within the corridor of econom…
Market and the creative economy industry became the central potentials for the Indonesian industry. The 3,43% share of the Indonesian population of the world and its rich natural resources made the country’s bargaining power as a potential creative economy market. According to the Global Religious Futures, Indonesia is the largest Muslim majority country globally, with a total of 229.62 milli…
Protection of migrant workers has been one of Indonesia’s foreign policy cornerstones. For the past few years there were significant improvements on the protection and management of Indonesian migrant workers but not at the same extend when it comes to seafarers working on board of foreign fishing vessel. Fiji as the hub in the pacific attracts many Indonesian seafarers working on board of fo…
Since 2015, the Government of Indonesia has implemented a moratorium on sending Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) to Middle Eastern countries. This was done because of the high number of PMI problems in the Middle East. However, sending PMIs to the Middle East continues using various methods, including non-procedural methods. Sending PMI with non-procedural methods causes PMI to be vulnerable t…
In ensuring an organization meets its goals, the performance management system (PMS) plays a significant role. It covers an extensive range of mechanisms to convey the key objectives. It involves a focus on actors, an implementation strategy, the development of a measurement system, an objective setting, related and adequate audit systems, and a performance-oriented management system (Bouckaert…
As economic diplomacy constitutes Indonesia’s foreign policy priority, advancing Indonesia’s economic diplomacy in Suriname fits this agenda setting by tapping into potential non-traditional markets. By conducting a literature review research and interviews with related stakeholders of both countries, the policy paper aims at presenting policy recommendations to the Ministry of Foreign Affa…
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to the workplace and brought attention to employee well-being. Additionally, the younger generations, as the dominant percentage of the global workforce, realize well-being is a significant value in an organization. As the disruptions swiftly grow, strengthening organizational culture can be a critical tool to improve productivity post-pan…
As one of basic duties of diplomats, reporting continues to play important roles in diplomacy. This means that diplomats every day produce huge amount of data, information, and knowledge which need to be managed and processed to be used for foreign-policy making. The great amounts of information then form collective knowledge or institutional memory of the Ministry. Management of such tremendou…
In the midst of the growing food, energy and climate crises, the issue of water is becoming more strategic. Water not only touches upon people’s daily lives, but also intersects many interests in foreign policy. With its immense capabilities to do more, Indonesia should elevate the issue of water in its foreign policy, in which Kemlu plays a central role by unleashing water diplomacy. This mu…