Indonesia’s increasingly complex diplomatic environment requires the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kemlu) to institutionalize its Strategic Diplomatic Capital, including the knowledge, experience, and networks of senior diplomats. However, reliance on individual expertise risks the loss of institutional knowledge due to retirement, reassignment, and organizational rotation. This policy brief r…
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…
Every organization produces data, information and knowledge on a daily basis. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of the Republic of Indonesia as the government institution in charge of foreign policy gathers and processes a tremendous amount of information daily. In addition to data and information, MoFA also produces knowledge and know-how through diplomatic and policy making practice. The…