Indonesia’s Humanitarian Diplomacy under Jokowi’s Era: Non-megaphone Diplomacy?

Firsty Chintya Laksmi Perbawani

2018

Abstract

Jokowi’s presidential era brought a new path for Indonesia’s foreign policy, especially in terms of diplomacy. The focus of Indonesia’s foreign policy that used to be security then shifted to one of humanitarian since late 2016 when Indonesia began to send humanitarian aids to Rakhine, Myanmar. In 2017, humanitarian diplomacy became more intense, particularly in the Pacific region; this could be seen from how Indonesia initiated a number of regional meetings with humanitarian agenda such as possible counterterrorism means in Marawi, Philippines, and how Indonesia initiated the arrangement between Bangladesh and Myanmar regarding the issue of repatriation; in which both were conducted under the ASEAN framework. This paper intends to explain the factors behind the rise of Indonesia’s current humanitarian diplomacy and the extent of which it affects Indonesia’s foreign policy. This paper finds that: (1) humanitarian diplomacy becomes one way in order to end crisis and achieve regional stability; and (2) through humanitarian diplomacy, Indonesia introduces a new way to approach crisis that is one by doing direct actions without using force. By analyzing the concepts of megaphone and non-megaphone diplomacy, this paper argues that the rise of humanitarian diplomacy is a means taken by Indonesia in shifting their foreign policy approach to non-megaphone diplomacy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Perbawani F. (2018). Indonesia’s Humanitarian Diplomacy under Jokowi’s Era: Non-megaphone Diplomacy?. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 250-257. DOI: 10.5220/0010275700002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Firsty Chintya Laksmi Perbawani},
title={Indonesia’s Humanitarian Diplomacy under Jokowi’s Era: Non-megaphone Diplomacy?},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={250-257},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010275700002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - Indonesia’s Humanitarian Diplomacy under Jokowi’s Era: Non-megaphone Diplomacy?
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Perbawani F.
PY - 2018
SP - 250
EP - 257
DO - 10.5220/0010275700002309