The Implementation of Indonesia’s Free and Active Foreign Policy Over the Russia-Ukraine War During Indonesia’s G20 Presidency
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- G20; Indonesia; Free and Active; Foreign Policy; Russia-Ukraine War
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Indonesia’s G20 presidency will provide a great platform for the country to demonstrate its influence as a major regional actor to the international community. As the G20 Summit in Bali takes place during the Russia-Ukraine war, it will be a critical measure for Indonesia’s foreign policy integrity and consistency. The participation of Russia in the G20 group has generated a split among G20 members that consider Russia to be an enemy in the Ukraine war. This isn’t the first time it’s happened in the near future; after the 2014 annexation of Ukraine, Russia has also been excluded from the G8 members. However, in the bigger Group of Twenty, which includes emerging countries such as China, India, and Saudi Arabia, the scenario will be different, as these countries tend to be neutral toward the western superpower bloc. The G20 Summit theme is “Recover Together, Recover Stronger” and the focus of the gathering in Bali will be on the economy, particularly economic cooperation during the recovery from Covid-19. Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs further stated that as host, the country would be impartial and would not take decisions based on pressure from other nations. Strong western superpowers, led by the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, objected the clause, threatening a boycott in the absence of those countries’ leaders. Indonesia, which has previously served as an ASEAN mediator in the 1991 war between Cambodia and Vietnam, has the opportunity to boost its position and image in the G20 presidency by “punching above its weight”. Indonesia holds a unique position in the dynamic global political constellation as a country with a free and active foreign policy. This is stated in Article 3 of Law Number 37 Year 1999 on Foreign Relations, which states that “free and active” is a foreign policy that is based on Indonesia’s national interests to support the realization of a world order based on independence, eternal peace, and social justice, rather than a neutral policy. In arranging who will participate and what agenda will be the emphasis of the Summit, the G20 event in Bali will be a contestation of Indonesia’s free and active foreign policy. The direction of the Indonesian government’s policy in hosting the G20 Summit in the next months, as well as the obligations of its presidency, will serve as a model for its successors and the most significant task the G20 group will address in the coming years.
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TY - CONF AU - Helga Yohana Simatupang AU - Michael Romulus Panggabean PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/24 TI - The Implementation of Indonesia’s Free and Active Foreign Policy Over the Russia-Ukraine War During Indonesia’s G20 Presidency BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Innovation on Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences (ICOSI-HESS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 590 EP - 602 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-65-7_49 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-65-7_49 ID - Simatupang2022 ER -