several issues and challenges to be faced, such as the
Asian financial crisis (1997-1998), poverty, human
rights issues and corruption. This problem is enough
to create chaos on the condition of Indonesia at that
time both in domestic and its relation with other
countries in the international world. Even according
to Rodolfo Severino (in Tan, 2007: 162), Indonesia
has also lost its leadership in ASEAN. Indonesia's
leadership period after Soeharto, namely B.J.
Habibie, Abdurrahman Wahid, and Megawati
Soekarnoputri, were more cautious in fulfilling their
foreign ambitions (Tan, 2007: 162). This is because
there is still a good image of Indonesia in the eyes of
the international community. Indonesia's decline is
also coupled with natural disasters, namely
tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides, and flash floods.
This then resulted in Indonesia focusing on the
rehabilitation and recovery of the country, so that
foreign ambitions were also damped. For seven
years also, Indonesia's foreign policy through
diplomacy is more directed towards gaining aid for
economic recovery, ensuring that domestic separatist
movements are not exposed, and building support
for democratization (Tan, 2007: 162). It also carries
the policy of "million friends zero enemy" as a
novelty in Indonesian foreign policy which then
brings about the effects described in the previous
section.
In the international eyes, Indonesia is seen as a
country that has a diverse ethnicity, religion,
language, geography, history, to political
organizations. In addition, Indonesia is assumed to
be a "imagined communities" by Benedict
Anderson, which is meant by a community that has a
sense of belonging and nationalism from different
backgrounds because it emerges from colonization
that both colonized Indonesia at that time Moon,
2009: 256). Through Indonesia's unfamiliarity with
this distinction and staying peaceful and
harmonious, Indonesia wants to create an image in
the eyes of the international community that
Indonesia also wants to establish such relations
through the "milion friends zero enemy" policy
without seeing the difference. Indonesia also wants
to emphasize that all parties are important.
Establishing a relationship intended by the policy is
not limited to the state alone, but also to individuals
(people to people) and non-governmental
organizations (Falahi, 2012: 229-30).
In addition to being an "imagined communities",
Indonesian identity can also be seen as a country
with the largest Muslim population in the world.
According to Warner and Walker (2011: 115),
religion as a national identity can also influence the
adoption of a foreign policy. The role of religion, in
this case Islam because Indonesia is known as the
most populous Islamic country, was true enough to
give influence. This can be seen from the position of
Indonesia which is the only country that abstained in
giving sanctions for Iran and supporting Palestine as
a sovereign country. However, Indonesia does not
take sides in an alliance in international politics.
Referring to Holsti (1990), Indonesia's national
role in the international system is known as a non-
aligned country. It can be seen from Indonesia who
is the leader of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Through the Non-Aligned Movement, Indonesia
seeks to become a neutral country without taking
sides to any camp. When Indonesia views
Indonesia's decision in its "million friends zero
enemy" policy, Indonesia plays the role of a country
that befriends all countries without seeking enemies.
It can be said that Indonesia wants to portray
Indonesia's national role through this foreign policy.
In addition to the Non-Aligned Movement,
Indonesia also wants to improve relations with
countries that during the previous reign were not the
main focus of Indonesia's international political
agenda.
In ideological variables, Indonesia is famous for
its ideology of Pancasila which contains five
principles, namely nationalism, humanitarianism,
representative government, social justice, and belief
in one God (Guy, 1958: 314). Based on Pancasila,
Indonesia's foreign policy is "freely active" since
Soekarno's reign. Despite the policy of "million
friends zero enemy", it does not mean "free active"
is simply abandoned. Because basically, "million
friends zero enemy" is just a strengthening of the
policy of "free active" politics born by President
Soekarno (The Diplomat, 2014). The goal to be
achieved is to be the same, ie, to be impartial of any
bloc and to make friendships with all countries. Its
application lies in increasing Indonesia's
contribution to international forums and
strengthening Indonesia's cooperation with other
countries, especially neighboring countries. The
addition of efforts to the achievement of Indonesia's
impartial objectives lies only in terms of quantity
only, so it is referred to only as adjustment policy
changes (The Diplomat, 2014 and Hermann, 1990:
5-6). According to Hermann (1990: 5-6) in his
article "Changing Course: When Government
Choose to Redirect Foreign Policy", there are four
kinds of foreign policy changes of a country. The
first is adjustment changes, which are policy
changes that only increase or reduce the effort to
achieve the objectives of a foreign policy. This