{"id":4845,"date":"2013-03-26T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T02:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2013-03-27T06:50:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:50:56","slug":"indonesia-and-strategic-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/indonesia-and-strategic-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia and \u2018strategic trust\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Indonesia's<\/a>One of the main features of the Indonesian President\u2019s speech<\/a> to last week\u2019s Jakarta International Defense Dialogue<\/a> was the concept of \u2018strategic trust\u2019. Admitting this was difficult to define, he referred to it as \u2018an evolving sense of mutual confidence between nations – particularly between government and militaries\u2019 that enables parties to work together more effectively and, more importantly, peacefully.<\/p>\n

President SBY offered two examples from Indonesia\u2019s own history where strategic trust has been the glue in otherwise shattered relationships: between Indonesia and East Timor (a poignant reference given East Timor\u2019s PM Xanana Gusm\u00e3o was sitting in the audience), and between the Indonesian government and GAM in Aceh. His message is that it\u2019s something that can bring bitter enemies together very gradually over time, \u2018brick by brick\u2019, and it has to reach from top leadership to the bottom rung.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a particularly radical concept, and it has been bounced around before<\/a>. But what President SBY has put in words is, for instance, what Australia is seeking to build with regional partners. If we were asking ourselves, \u2018what does it take to be strategic partners with Indonesia?\u2019, SBY has got an easy answer: \u2018strategic trust\u2019, as it\u2019s understood in Jakarta. And that\u2019s the beauty of abstraction: you\u2019re off the hook proving it in quantitative terms but you certainly can say you\u2019re working towards it.<\/p>\n

The President gets further mileage from a term \u2018strategic trust\u2019 because it\u2019s entirely consistent with the back catalogue of Indonesia\u2019s regional and international proclamations. Strategic trust is an extension of Indonesia\u2019s foreign policy of \u2018dynamic equilibrium\u2019<\/a> and its diplomatic approach of having \u2018a million friends and zero enemies\u2019<\/a>. It continues to affirm Indonesia\u2019s desire to be seen as a balancer within the region, not only between global and emerging powers, but also between Asia\u2013Pacific partners. It comes as no surprise that the President would cite opportunities for strategic trust-building as areas where Indonesia has been active diplomatically: in Myanmar\u2019s democratic transition and the South China Sea Code of Conduct.<\/p>\n

The speech might not be ground-breaking but it\u2019s clever for slipping a diplomatic buzzword into a forum like JIDD. There\u2019s no doubt \u2018strategic trust\u2019 was whispered around the JIDD stalls throughout the day and after. Media<\/a> coverage<\/a> of the event has played up SBY\u2019s speech like he was \u2018dropping the mic\u2019<\/a> on strategic thinking. But at the end of the day, \u2018strategic trust\u2019 is a term that, if incorporated into our everyday diplomatic parlance and practice with Indonesia, wouldn\u2019t be a bad thing.<\/p>\n

Natalie Sambhi is an analyst at ASPI and editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Strategist. Image courtesy of President of the Republic of Indonesia<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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