Papers

• “Bottleneck” in Indonesian Military Career Management Anton Aliabbas Paramadina University

  Up-and-stay structure is one of career flow structure that is used by many foreign militaries including Indonesia. According to Harry A Thie et al (1994:79), by applying this structure, accumulation of ‘deadwood’ within the organisation might occur. The study examines practical implication of current design of soldier career management in the Indonesian Army (2015-2017). During 2013-2014, the Army has revised three primary documents regarding soldier career management. The documents were the Army Doctrine on Personnel, Army Main Guideline Book on Personnel, and Technical Guidance Book on Army Officer Career Management. The study finds the new framework contributes to promotion bottleneck in high-ranking Army’s soldiers. The study also indicates that the up-and-stay structure creates a deficit of lower-ranking soldiers. Implications for conceptual, practical and recommendations for future studies are discussed.

• Indonesia’s Defence Diplomacy Transformation: The Post New Order Dynamics Frega Wenas Inkiriwang London School of Economics and Political Science

  This paper attempts to analyse the transformation of Indonesia’s Defence Diplomacy in the Post New Order period. In this period, there was a significant development in the country. The military which was used as a political tool by the authoritarian regime underwent a fundamental reform. The process was supported by the military leaders which resulted in the issuance of the new Law on Indonesian National Defence Forces in 2004. This legal basis has since guided how the Indonesian military operates in dealing with external and internal security threats and curbed the socio-political role of the Indonesian military which is associated with the New Order period. However, it has not specifically touched upon the implementation of defence diplomacy, which has significantly increased within the last decade.

  Therefore, the paper scrutinises the transformation of Indonesia’s defence diplomacy by comparing the development under different administrations in the Post New Order era. In examining this transformation, the paper firstly highlights the policy crafted by various administrations. This paper also identifies the process of incorporating defence diplomacy in numerous defence white papers in the Post New Order period, which has become the reflection of Indonesia’s defence policy. And subsequently, the paper observes how Indonesia has implemented its defence diplomacy over time by focusing on three key aspects, the actors, the activities and the formats.

  An examination of Indonesia’s defence diplomacy transformation in the Post New Order era is critical to help understand how Indonesia has developed its engagement with external partners through diplomacy by using its military, as one of the national instruments. Hence, this paper offers an alternate approach in studying Indonesia’s defence diplomacy under democratic control.

• Maritime Perspective on Indonesian Defence White Paper Anton Aliabbas Paramadina University Shiskha Prabawaningtyas Paramadina University

  Indonesian Defence White Paper published in the years of 1995, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2014, and 2015 should be constructed and functioned as a legal based guideline to Indonesia’s state building as a maritime state after the introduction of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas in 1982 and accepts the territorial sovereignty of Indonesia at seas. As a country consists of 17.508 islands and locates in geostrategic position between Indian and Pacific Ocean, the functions of the sea is at the core debate of state building of becoming a maritime state. Mahan (1890), Till (2009), and Salim (2015) conclude and list preconditions of what constitute a maritime state by building its maritime power. Defence White Paper functions as a state’s grand strategic plan in projecting the Indonesian maritime power including its defence capability. This paper aims to locate the gap between policy orientation and implementation in building Indonesian maritime state by applying the narrative analysis to the six publication of White Defence Paper. By addressing the gap, this paper seeks to locate the hybrid space that undermine the Indonesian state building to be a maritime state.

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Keywords

• Geopolitics
• Indonesia
• Military