Indonesia’s Policy Projection on Regional Security After The Formation of The National Defense Council

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10.2991/978-2-38476-442-6_14How to use a DOI?

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Foreign policy; defense policy; regional security; National Defense Council; Prabowo Subianto

Abstract

This study aims to project Indonesia’s defense policy in response to security dynamics, especially in the Southeast Asia Region after President Prabowo Subianto formed the National Defense Council. The Study uses a qualitative research method with a descriptive research type to describe the projection of Indonesia’s defense policy in the region in responding to current security threats. Even though Indonesia is not directly involved in some cases, neighboring countries undoubtedly always take Indonesia’s response into account due to its significant leadership role in the region. The results of this study describe the formation of a national defense council theoretically using the governmental politics model approach, which should be able to integrate foreign policy and defense policy in responding to security dynamics. The existence of the National Defense Council is expected to improve the relevance of Indonesia’s defense policy, where, with its leadership in the region, Indonesia’s foreign policies will always receive attention, especially on several issues, such as defense and regional security. However, it took more than two decades to realize this; these two decades of regional security have illustrated how necessary it is to provide comprehensive considerations when formulating policies to determine strategic responses in the field of national defense. Ultimately, this research answers a question about the potential for integration between Indonesia’s foreign policy and defense policy. The impact of this research is to eliminate the gray area that often occurs when making foreign policy decisions and defense policies. Efforts to limit the gray area in the decision-making process will make the resulting policy more capable of providing strategic impact because it is compiled on comprehensive and adaptive rationality.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Renaldo Benarrivo
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/07/04
TI  - Indonesia’s Policy Projection on Regional Security After The Formation of The National Defense Council
BT  - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Business, Economics, Social Sciences, and Humanities - Humanities and Social Sciences Track (ICOBEST-HSS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 149
EP  - 159
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-442-6_14
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-442-6_14
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