For decades, the relationship between Indonesia and the Pacific Islands region is unkempt. Indonesia is still recognized as a ‘new friend’ to its eastern part neighbors, while the Pacific Islands region is still perceived as a ‘far away land’ that Indonesia barely looks into it let alone has a warm and meaningful relationship. Although in the 1970s, Indonesia situated the Pacific Island…
Countries engage in nation branding strategy to attract tourists, increase export and encourage investment. As such, the underlying purpose of nation branding converge with Indonesia’s economic diplomacy objectives. Indonesia has started its journey on nation branding, but it lacks a unifying element in doing so. At the outset, it has several ‘brands’ to promote for different purposes, as…
Strengthening economic diplomacy is one of the highest priorities and main agendas of the Foreign Ministry (MoFA). The economic instruments of diplomacy have become more important since post-cold war. In the era of digitalization (4.0), the needs to utilize the internet and technology to optimize the work of economic diplomacy is unavoidable. The internet has become vital to public and brought …
In almost a decade of cooperation under the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), Indonesia and the EU have achieved considerable positive results, notably in the environmental sector. However, from the economic perspective, there was untapped potential. The statistics on trade value between the two partners provide that Indonesia’s wood …
The promotion of SMEs is mentioned within Kemlu’s Renstra 2020-2024 as one of the strategies to propel economic development and post-pandemic economic recovery. This is in line with the fact that SMEs absorb around 97% of employment in Indonesia, and hence helping SMEs is in conjunction with helping the livelihood of the people in general. However, it seems that promotion of SMEs is beginning…
In the past years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Indonesia (MOFA RI) has refocused its priorities, including to further advance economic diplomacy to help accelerate the recovery of Indonesia’s economy. To achieve this, various policies to further boost trade and investment ties have been actively pursued in recent years. Moreover, numerous breakthroughs have also been under…
Climate change due to global warming has caused various negative impacts around the world. One of the negative impacts of climate change is the rise in global sea level. Indonesia, as the largest archipelago country in the world, is very vulnerable to the impact of sea level rise. In this regard, Indonesia as an archipelagic state is also affected by the sea level rise which might sink Indonesi…
This paper argues that “the end of war” in Afghanistan as claimed by the US President does not necessarily translate to the beginning of peace. The people of Afghanistan, especially girls, women and minority groups are still facing structural and cultural violence. Left unaddressed, the people of Afghanistan will keep finding themselves in new cycles of conflicts with more grievances and vi…
The connection between gastronomy and diplomacy has been underway for so long that Lord Palmerston, the British PM from 1859 to 1865, considered dining as the soul of diplomacy. Such combination of soft power has correspondingly been practiced by Indonesia in conducting diplomatic exercises and international relations, either by the Central Government or Indonesian Foreign Representatives acros…
This paper examines the nation brand image notion through the active public diplomacy of Socio-Cultural Affairs at the Indonesian Embassies. The research will be conducted by survey and random sampling for the interview. Literature review is employed as the method to develop the conceptual model. This paper suggests that the multifaceted nature of Indonesia can be covered in the nation brand im…