diplomacy

Editorial: The Outsiders and Prabowo’s Human Rights Whitewashing Diplomacy

In her farewell speech in front of many Indonesian diplomats last Friday, former Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi could not hold back...
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Editorial: Test of Prabowo’s Regional Leadership in Myanmar Fragmentation

Under President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, risks being perceived as a paper tiger—strong in rhetoric but weak...
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4 min read

Editorial: The Sound of Silence

As Indonesia is embarking on its own version of diplomacy on Myanmar, a quiet diplomacy or non-megaphone diplomacy as its foreign...
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3 min read

Editorial: Foreign Policy for Sale?

While money can’t buy everything, it surely could buy Indonesia. Well, at least it could buy a few elites in Indonesia...
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7 min read

Successful Intelligence, Soft Diplomacy and Global Role Under SBY

That morning at the end of February 2010, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa came to the presidential palace to report to President...
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Editorial: Jokowi’s Most Defining Moments

Call it a stroke of genius, a coincidence or a mere luck, but Indonesia’s heavily criticized initial hesitance to condemn Russia’s...
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