{"id":31046,"date":"2017-03-24T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=31046"},"modified":"2017-03-24T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T23:41:20","slug":"maritime-recalibration-indonesia-australia-defence-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/maritime-recalibration-indonesia-australia-defence-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"The (maritime) recalibration of Indonesia\u2013Australia defence relations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week Indonesian defence minister, Ryamizard Ryacudu, met with his Australian counterpart, Marise Payne, for the annual Indonesia\u2013Australia Defence Ministers\u2019 meeting<\/a>. On the face of it, defence relations between Indonesia and Australia seem to be back on track following the brief suspension<\/a> of defence language training cooperation in December. Indeed, the broad priorities and common interests discussed in the meeting were encouraging.<\/p>\n

Minister Payne highlighted<\/a> the importance of ASEAN security frameworks as well as the support for the recently signed Joint Declaration on Maritime Cooperation<\/a>.\u00a0Issues relating to defence science and technology as well as regional peacekeeping were also raised.<\/p>\n

From the Indonesian side<\/a>, Minister Ryacudu addressed the issue of American military presence in Australia and his expectation that Australia might encourage South Pacific states to support Indonesia\u2019s territorial integrity. He also emphasised President Widodo\u2019s Global Maritime Fulcrum<\/a> (GMF) vision and Indonesia\u2019s role in the Indian Ocean Rim Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We should now consider broad recalibrations at three levels to strengthen the defence relationship and make it less \u2018incident-prone\u2019. First, at the bilateral level, President Widodo\u2019s GMF doctrine could become a starting point to strategically align our mutual interests. Although the doctrine was launched<\/a> in 2014, the policy priorities and programs only materialised after he signed Presidential Regulation No. 16 on Indonesian Sea Policy<\/a> late last month.<\/p>\n

The decree came with both with a long-term framework and a short-term action scheme (see breakdown here<\/a>). These documents reflect the government’s desire to achieve a dozen maritime-related goals ranging from marine sustainability to diplomatic initiatives. They could also serve as a \u2018set of menus\u2019 through which Canberra could tailor and refine the recent joint maritime declaration\u2014whether they relate to the economy, security, or even people-to-people exchanges. Strategically linking bilateral relations to Jakarta\u2019s GMF and Sea Policy provides some domestic political cushion in Jakarta, helps generate a substantive framework for discussion, and elevates the regional potential of the partnership.<\/p>\n

Second, at the defence level, TNI\u2013ADF dynamics shouldn\u2019t be the sole determinant of the relationship. Instead, defence ties could be stabilised by expanding<\/a> and institutionalising the role of non-military security actors\u2014such as police forces and coast guards\u2014as well as non-government actors. Defence relations, after all, are increasingly tasked with addressing the growing complex nexus of traditional and non-traditional security challenges. Indonesia\u2019s civilian defence community could be a valuable partner to the TNI and, when sufficiently developed and institutionalised, a useful bridge to the Australian strategic community.<\/p>\n

Finally, we need to reinforce but modify existing military education and training programs as the lynchpin of the TNI\u2013ADF relationship and better align them to the strategic maritime interests of both countries. We might reassess, for example, Australia\u2019s army-centric training programs for the TNI. None of the top ten education and training courses conducted between 1999 and 2015\u2014which trained almost half of the Indonesians\u2014were explicitly maritime-related. In fact, there were only 82 TNI soldiers and officers (around 5%) that went through seven explicitly maritime-related courses. Those courses ran for an average duration of six weeks compared with English language training programs which averaged twice as long.<\/p>\n

Given Indonesia\u2019s current maritime focus we should now consider options to boost the number and duration of maritime-related courses, which could range from maritime safety and security, naval shipbuilding, to marine environmental science and engineering as well as counter-trafficking operations at sea. We should also assess whether security-related courses could be expanded to include more participation from Indonesia\u2019s civilian defence community in areas such as defence policymaking, maritime operations law, or defence management.<\/p>\n

These maritime-driven recalibrations could gradually both broaden and deepen defence ties between Indonesia and Australia. But as these are long-term evolutions and Jakarta and Canberra need to exercise strategic patience for the time being. The maritime geography that binds us as neighbours doesn\u2019t need to condemn us to perpetual crises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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