The focus of this paper is to explain the interest of the United States in eliminating Indonesia from the category of developing countries. The United States through the USTR considers that several indicators of the regulations they set on trade have shown that Indonesia is not a developing country that deserves to receive subsidized facilities in their trade cooperation. That is why by tak…
This study describes the process and path of Indonesia’s diplomacy towards UNESCO to formalize Pencak Silat as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indonesia. The discussion includes a description of the activities carried out by the actors since the process of preparing the pencak silat’s dossier, until it was determined by UNESCO. The nomination process is carried out through the Secret…
This study aims to explain about Indonesia’s policy during 2020 after seeing the fact that its coal exports to India decrease dramatically due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, India is one of Indonesia's main export destinations after China. The research method used in this research is descriptive analysis with qualitative research type. The data collection technique used is 'library r…
As soon as US President inauguration, Donald Trump shows transactional foreign policy style on how US dealing with Saudi arms sales and conducting arms deal worth US$110 billion. Yet, this arms sale poses several criticisms on its effect toward human rights issue. This research aims to analyze the role of Trump and closest advisers that might take part inventing the policy to maintain arms …
The focus of this research is to describe the policy strategy carried out by Indonesia regarding China's domination and expansion in the Indo-Pacific. The rise of China which consists of economy and military, partnership, investment, and trade, changed the regional system and also created a revolution for other countries. Indonesia sees that China's economic power will affect its national i…
This research discuss about Indonesia’s interests in strengthening counter terrorism cooperation relations with the United States of America in effort to overcome the terrorism threat in Indonesia. Terrorism is the enemy of all nations and transnational in nature thus there is a need for various cooperation to eradicate it. The terrorism activity that have appeared both internationally an…
This study discusses the dispute settlement process between the two countries through dispute settlement body WTO. World Trade Organization (WTO) is a global international organization that specifically regulates issues in trade between countries. WTO itself replaces the role of GATT 1947 as an international trade institution. In 2017, Australia declared that Indonesia had dumped A4 paper …
This study discusses the Indonesian state policy on paper waste imports from the United States in 2017-2019. Paper and pulp is an important industry in Indonesia and ranks ninth as the world's largest pulp producer, and sixth in the paper industry. The lack of raw materials for new paper in Indonesia encourages the import of paper waste as raw material for paper in Indonesia. In this study,…
Cultural Diplomacy between Indonesia and South Korea through youth exchange programs or also known as IKYEP (Indonesian Korean Youth Exchange Program) during President Joko Widodo's tenure, 2014-2019. The spread of the Korean Wave in Indonesia influenced Indonesia and South Korea to collaborate in various fields, including in the field of education such as youth exchanges and expert exchan…
This study aims to explain the cooperation of state actors in the form of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The case study taken is the Role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Handling Cases of Illegal Organ Trafficking in China, the IGO which is engaged in global public health, raised the issue of organ trafficking in China in 2008, a…
Illegal trade is an important issue in Indonesia. One form of illegal trade is the existence of the used clothing trade. Bengkalis Regency, which is an area that interacts directly with Malaysia and is a cross-border location of the Malacca Strait, has the potential for various violations such as clothing smuggling, which is considered to be disturbing the national industry. The theory use…
This paper explain the cultural diplomacy carried out by Indonesia against Russia through the 2016-2017 Indonesian Festival. For the first time, Indonesia is holding the largest integrated cultural festival in Russia, starting in 2016. As a country with cultural diversity, Indonesia uses the Indonesian Festival as a means to carry out cultural diplomacy in order to promote Indonesian cultur…
This research aims to explain the causes of the emergence of policies that explicitly reject Latin American immigrants during the leadership of President Donald Trump, even though the United States managed to overcome the immigrant crisis that occurred in the previous leadership. Migration flows continued to decline until Trump's time, but he still issued a fairly tough policy against immi…
The focus of this paper is to analyze ASEAN's endeavor to resolve conflicts in the South China Sea with China: Code of Conduct Analysis in 2018, the South China Sea is a sea with enormous natural resources and the second-largest economic route in the world. China wants to fully control the South China Sea with a nine-dash line to gain the full advantage in the South China Sea. ASEAN doesn�…
Indonesia is one of the largest fresh banana producing countries in the world, Asia, and the largest exporter to China. Starting from the increasing number of exports in 2016-2018, there was an increase in banana exports to China. It turns out that the demand by China has not been fulfilled by Indonesia. This study discusses why there was an increase in Indonesia's fresh banana exports to …
Prior to the growth of digitalization globally, the value of bitcoin was less fascinated and unpopular. In the first of bitcoin trials, it was use by a person in America who went to Papa’s John Pizza and he used more than a thousand coins to purchased a slice of it. But nowadays, bitcoin knowns as the most luxurious things in the world. The bitcoin appearances had caught many attentions,…
The effect of the arms embargo imposed by the US on Indonesia has reduced the deterrence of the Indonesian military force and coupled with the old defense equipment, it is not commensurate with the area that must be guarded. Therefore, Indonesia needs cooperation partners to increase its military strength and to modernize defense equipment. Ukraine was chosen as a cooperation partner in th…
This research focuses on the cooperation carried out by Afghanistan- China through the BRI (Belt Road Initiative) in advancing the economy in Afghanistan. This collaboration refers to BRI's policy in which Afghanistan is one of the project countries for land routes through rail facilities as well as connecting ports to ports in countries such as Pakistan and Iran. Several agreements were m…
Indonesia is an agricultural country where most of the population works in agriculture, especially the horticulture and sub-sector of vegetable farming has the potential to increas farmers’ income through increasing the productivity. However the vegetable farming has some obstacles. To solve the obstacles or the problems and improve agriculture, Indonesia has carried out various ways, one…
This research discussed Indonesia's motivation in export affiliation of Indonesian-Dutch home decorations to Europe. This research aimed to explain and determine the reasons and the partnership between the two countries to continue expanding export opportunities for Indonesian home decoration products which have abundant potential for raw materials to the European market. The European marke…