Jokowi's Maritime Axis: Change and Continuity of Indonesia's Role in Indo-Pacific
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the maritime axis concept coined by Indonesian President Joko Widodo and the possible changes in Indonesian foreign and defence policy required as to achieve this maritime axis.
Abstract: Indonesia is undergoing transition and soon, a new president will be inaugurated. The new president brings promises of new foreign and defence policy for Indonesia, building upon Indonesia’s prior principles and putting renewed consideration on Indonesia’s geopolitical position in the Indo-Pacific. This paper examines the “maritime axis”, the concept coined by President Joko Widodo and the possible changes in Indonesian foreign and defence policy required as to achieve the maritime axis. In foreign policy, Indonesia is expected to contribute more to the Indian Ocean Rim Association while maintaining its ASEAN centrality. In defence, there is a significant change in Indonesia’s defence outlook from land-based to maritime-based. Also, Indonesia looks towards India as a security partner in securing the Indian Ocean.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse and evaluate Indonesia's grappling with the Indo-Pacific and evaluate its actorness in the region, its strategic discourse on the region and its commitment to the region.
Abstract: This article analyses and evaluates Indonesia’s grappling with the Indo-Pacific. Analysis is threefold – Indonesia’s actorness in the Indo-Pacific, its strategic discourse on the Indo-Pacific, and ...
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...The significance of this public declaration was clear, “Jokowi [Widodo] has positioned Indonesia as an Indo-Pacific power” (Piesse, 2015: 1; also Agastia and Perwita, 2015; Aufiya, 2017)....
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TL;DR: The authors applied Faircloughian approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA) to understand the coverage of "maritime" in Indonesian online media, focusing on three aspects when analyzing written discourses: representations, relations, and identities.
Abstract: The concept of maritime (maritime) is frequently discussed among the Indonesian people, a fact that may be attributed to the emphasis that has been given to maritime issues by President Joko Widodo since his candidacy. This article applies Faircloughian approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA) to understand the coverage of ‘maritime’ in Indonesian online media. This paradigm has been selected because the media does not simply act as a neutral medium through its publication and coverage; rather, media have specific ideologies, which can be described and analyzed through critical discourse analysis. This approach focuses on three aspects when analyzing written discourses: representations, relations, and identities. Representation refers to specific words and grammatical structures to construct reality; relations refer to the connections between the subjects as depicted in the discourse; and identity refers to reporters’ positions in their coverage of online media, including their biases. In general, relations and identities in Indonesian online media coverage have been oriented towards the government and society. The government has been constructed ambiguously by online media, but depictions of government have tended to be positive, with a focus on the success of its maritime programs.
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...As such, maritime issues — long neglected by the media — received further attention, which it maintained as Widodo and his Minister of Fisheries and Oceans sought to realize the global maritime axis doctrine [1]....
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01 Apr 2017TL;DR: In this article, a framework of MDA, which is used to examine the issues with Indonesia's MDA-building process at three levels: strategic, operational, and technical.
Abstract: The Global Maritime Fulcrum has been an essential cornerstone of Indonesian foreign and domestic policy for the Joko Widodo administration. It envisions Indonesia as a regional maritime power capable of providing maritime security within its territorial waters and within the Indo-Pacific region. It also captures Indonesia’s ambition to boost its maritime economy. The Joko Widodo administration has been building the Global Maritime Fulcrum for three years. Though physical development has indeed been remarkable, there has been a lack of a focus on developing maritime domain awareness, or MDA. As an essential foundation of maritime policy, it is important that a state invests in ensuring adequate MDA-building capacities to guide its maritime policy. Without proper MDA, it would be difficult for maritime stakeholders to allocate and prioritise maritime resources to the key areas of concern of the Global Maritime Fulcrum. This paper constructs a framework of MDA, which is used to examine the issues with Indonesia’s MDA-building process at three levels: strategic, operational, and technical. It identifies three issues, namely a lack of capacity to conduct sustained MDA operations, a lack of inter-agency coordination, and the problem of maritime ‘sense-making’. Several policy recommendations aimed at increasing Indonesia’s capacity to build MDA are proposed at the end.
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