THE ROLE OF INDONESIA'S STRATEGIC PARTNERS IN MAINTAINING SOUTH CHINA MARITIME SECURITY
Keywords:
Strategic Partners, South China Maritime SecurityAbstract
For Indonesia, the Indo-Pacific region is a regional concept that involves ASEAN as the most strategic region. The World Maritime Axis Policy for Indonesia is important with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region with maritime cooperation that can continue to be strengthened with other countries in the region, both through ASEAN as a strategic regional organization and cooperation with countries outside ASEAN membership. , including India. This research use qualitative methods. The required library data can then be collected from journal articles, books, related media news in recent years, and national documents of each country. Strategic partnerships provide freedom for Indonesia without being bound by alliance obligations, in which regionally relevant middle-power partners with the same interests can collectively enhance Indonesia's defense capabilities. The opportunity to forge strategic partnerships with Japan, India, and Australia is to be noticed. Through strategic partnerships, Indonesia can continue to carry out its Free and Active foreign policy while meeting security needs to deal with regional threats. Deeper strategic partnerships with Japan, India, and Australia can then be a prospect that deserves further exploration because, besides this. It is a form of arrangement between middle powers countries that have shared values such as democracy, recognizing the importance of maritime security, preventing domination of one hegemon in Asia, maintaining the free and open Indo-Pacific (including the security and stability of the South China Sea), respecting the sovereignty of each country, and surviving the vortex of great powers competition, cooperation between partner countries is also following policy principles Free Active and able to meet Indonesia's security needs.
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