Indonesia

While Indonesia’s ratification has given a boost to the CTBT, the positions of the other hold-out countries do not show any promise of forward movement.

• Ch. Viyyanna Sastry
• January 09, 2012
• IDSA Comments

To maximise gains from their bilateral relations, India and Indonesia have to tread a middle path - a mix of furthering economic complementarities while competing to attract foreign investments.

• Rahul Mishra
• January 25, 2011
• Issue Brief

President Yudhoyono’s visit is likely to take the strategic partnership to the next level.

• Pankaj K Jha
• January 24, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Political, economic and strategic factors in the post-Cold War period call for expanded co-operation between India and Indonesia.

• Baladas Ghoshal
• January 20, 2011
• Issue Brief

The cultural linkages between India and Indonesia have to be leveraged, as a foreign policy tool, to take India-Indonesia relations to the next level.

• Rahul Mishra
• January 19, 2011
• Issue Brief

During the course of their sixty year-old bilateral relationship, Indonesia and China have gone through many ups and downs. A great part of the formative years of this relationship was marred by mutual apathy, if not distrust.

• Rahul Mishra , Irfa Puspitasari
• November 22, 2010
• Issue Brief

President Obama’s visit to Indonesia is expected to excise the sense of drift in the relationship that had crept in the post-Suharto phase of transition.

• Udai Bhanu Singh
• November 10, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Indonesia, which has been taking significant measures to curb terrorism, scored another success with the arrest of Abu Bakar Ba'asyir aka ABB, suspected of having funded and ideologically motivated Al Qaeda Aceh, in early August 2010. The arrest is just one of the steps in a long, consistent and protracted fight to maintain Indonesia’s secular, democratic and republican credentials.

• Rahul Mishra , Irfa Puspitasari
• September 09, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Many Papuans prefer to internationalise their plight and seek a third party to settle the issue as they do not trust the Jakarta elites and Indonesians in general.

• Bilveer Singh
• August 25, 2010
• IDSA Comments

This commentary attempts to answer the question as to why the flow of jihadis is unending despite tough measures being undertaken by Jakarta, on its own or in collaboration with its regional and international partners.

• Bilveer Singh
• August 24, 2010
• IDSA Comments