Space is becoming more vital for the interest of humankind. Its importance cannot be understated in the coming future, where space will become even more crucial for international security and global prosperity. There are several aspects of the importance of space: i) space has abundant potential for material natural resources; ii) countries can use outer space to help life on Earth, for example…
Economic Diplomacy is one of Indonesia’s foreign policy priorities. Among it’s various forms and mechanisms, trade, investment, export and import are the most recognized terms. As a priority, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) have encouraged many stakeholders to be involved, and the recent one is Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (MSOEs). It is expected that by collaborating with the MSOE…
Indonesia’s adoption of the Free and Active foreign policy doctrine in 1948 entails the need to maintain strategic autonomy, especially within the development of its defence capabilities. The US and its allies' military embargo during the 1990s period is an expensive lesson learned for Indonesia in its efforts to maintain independency. In this regard, this paper suggested that to maintain ind…
The Treaty Law has been prevailing for more than twenty years and it is appropriate to question its relevancy and implementation. Moreover, there are three judicial cases on international agreements and the Treaty Law that reflect the emerge of issues concerning treaty incorporation in Indonesia. Hence, using qualitative method, this review analysed the concept of treaty incorporation and its i…
In 2022, Ethiopia was the second largest country in Africa in terms of population. It has a population of 120 million people, with work force amounting to 56 million people. Ethiopia’s GDP per capita is around 1.000 USD, the number will keeps increasing since Ethiopia manage to maintain its economic growth at 8,8% on average for the past 20 years. Ethiopian people is working hard to transform…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (MoFA RI) needs to take steps following the agreement between Indonesia and Japan to elevate the partnership status from the Strategic Partnership to the comprehensive Strategic Partnership at the 8th Indonesia-Japan Ministerial Level Strategic Dialogue on March 6, 2023, in Tokyo. The formulation of the steps needs to be carried ou…
Diverse issues faced by the missions have to be addressed effectively and efficiently, to reach the optimum goals for economic diplomacy. All aspects of organization need to be addressed to achieve organizational best outcome. An organization would not achieve its goal effectively and efficiently if they focused only on one of the issues. This paper would try to assist the enhancement of Indone…
Support for the advancement of Indonesian SMEs, which number around 65 million, is a main priority for the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, which is also Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (MOFA) main priority in carrying out the economic diplomacy. The economic diplomacy is expected to create business opportunities of businessmen, especially for SMEs. MOFA played roles with various promoti…
Foreign public and private entities have been utilising the Metaverse for economic purposes. However, Indonesia has not fully utilised it. This paper argues that Indonesian Foreign Ministry and diplomats should explore utilisation of the Metaverse to advance Indonesian economic diplomacy. Not doing so may trap Indonesia as a mere market and hinder Indonesia from economic innovation. This pap…
The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers film to be a valuable asset of popular cultural diplomacy. The film industry has the potential to contribute significantly to a country's brand, image, soft power, and creative economy. Through film, Indonesia can promote its nature, culture, values, history, tourism, products, and economy. Indonesian films can compete with foreign films in t…