A review and analysis of “Unlikely allies? Australia, Indonesia and strategic cultures of middle power” (Beeson et al. 2020) in a commentary and explainer format on Instagram.
Commentary
Diah Angendari is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University and her dissertation examines the interplay between imaginaries, power, and interests in policymaking. She’s using the case study of AI in Indonesia to understand the factors that shape these policies.
Professor Jennifer Westacott AC, Australia’s Business Champion for Indonesia shares what it means for Indonesia not just to be Australia’s neighbour, but also a partner of choice.
This is the foundation for regional security and sustainable development. It is also the best hope we have for meeting the challenges of the future, from the clean energy transition to digital disruption, and from sustainable cities to public health.
Indonesia is creating jobs at an unprecedented rate. In 2024 alone, the country added 4.8 million new jobs, pushing the unemployment rate below 5 per cent as GDP growth rebounded to 5 per cent. While this appears groundbreaking on paper, national sentiment and statistics tell a different story.
Indonesia’s post-pandemic and legitimacy crisis has resulted in the country renewing its developmentalist strategies but new powerful politico-economic forces have emerged seeking to capitalise on these development agendas.
Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has identified the halal industry as a strategic pillar in Indonesia’s pursuit of becoming a developed nation. He underscored the importance of fostering independence across halal sectors such as Islamic finance, food and beverage, Muslim fashion, and Islamic media content.
How exactly are these online food platforms reshaping Indonesian society? And what happens when we compare their impact across different cultural and economic contexts? A fascinating new study by Nadia Egalita, a PhD researcher at RMIT, offers insights into these questions through comparative ethnographic research conducted in Surabaya and Melbourne.
In Indonesia, a boom in demand for seaweed from largely China-based industry has transformed seaweed farmers’ relationships with the sea and each other, creating new imperatives to assert “ownership” of sea space and have those claims backed up by grassroots state officials.
Despite significant strides in recent decades, Indonesia continues to face one of Southeast Asia’s higher maternal mortality rates. A recent study published by Syaraji and colleagues (2024) found that for every 100,000 live births, approximately 249 women die from pregnancy-related causes.
Indonesia sebagai negara pertama yang dikunjungi setelah Partai Buruh memenangkan pemilu menunjukkan perlunya Australia untuk memperkuat hubungannya dengan Indonesia.
Historically, Chinese-Indonesians have been rejected from mainstream society. In 1966, they were asked to legally change their “Chinese individual or family names”, as suspicions grew that Chinese-Indonesians still had a strong connection with the Chinese mainland and communism.
Indonesian student numbers in Australia have been in freefall for decades. Scholars, teachers and education leaders have sought to solve this problem and their quest has garnered dramatic labels such as ‘holy grail’, ‘missing link’ and ‘perfect storm’.
Indigenous knowledge is about the understandings, skills and philosophies created by indigenous peoples from their long-term interactions with their natural surroundings.
Indonesia’s strategic position as a country with a free and active foreign policy can be leveraged to optimize opportunities amid global tensions, with a special focus on the perspectives and behaviors of Generation Z consumers as the main drivers of the digital economy.
Utilising the original national survey data prior to the 2024 presidential election, the author finds that authoritarian beliefs and nostalgia for the authoritarian past do not explain support for Prabowo.
