{"title":"Empowering Urban Diplomacy: Surabaya’s Sister City Collaboration with Kitakyushu, Japan for Sustainable Development","authors":"Rasta Hayuning Dzazira, Dhani Putra Pratama","doi":"10.18196/jpcn.v2i1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v2i1.17","url":null,"abstract":"This research examines the dynamic paradiplomacy practices of Surabaya City Government through its robust Sister City cooperation with Kitakyushu, Japan, forged since 1997. Paradiplomacy, as a guide for foreign policy conducted by sub-national actors, provides a platform for cities to engage in international networks and pursue their interest. By applying the International Cooperation Theory and Concepts of Paradiplomacy, this study employs a descriptive qualitative research approach with literature study and interviews to analyze the successful implementation of this collaboration. The research focuses on the city’s concerted efforts towards achieving a Green Sister City status, aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals and promoting environmental sustainability. Surabaya’s paradiplomatic endeavors complement the national diplomatic efforts, showcasing Indonesia’s rising regional government’s role in international affairs. The study highlights the significance of urban diplomacy in driving sustainable development initiatives through cross-border collaborations. ","PeriodicalId":164355,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134339858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asessing the Impacts of Paradiplomacy on Batam-Singapore Cooperation: A Case Study in Tourism, Economic Growth, and Infrastructure Development","authors":"Rangga Putra Abdi","doi":"10.18196/jpcn.v2i1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v2i1.27","url":null,"abstract":"Paradiplomacy is a concept that enables sub-national entities to establish relationships with counterparts in other countries. One form of paradiplomacy is sister cities, where local governments of one country collaborate with regional governments from other countries to jointly develop their respective regions. The partnership between Batam and Singapore City as sister cities focuses primarily on promoting tourism, while also enhancing cooperation in the development of Batam across various sectors, such as investment, transportation, tourism, labor, and agribusiness. Additionally, they collaborate on projects like the development of Funtasy Island. This research adopts a qualitative methodology, drawing from a range of sources, including research articles, journals, and the latest news updates from all involved parties. The theory of international cooperation is applied to establish correlations between the concepts of paradiplomacy and sister cities, aligning with the study's objectives and discussion. Batam's paradiplomacy efforts operate within the scope of Indonesia's Free Trade Zone (FTZ). Notably, investment emerges as a key focal point, with Batam selected as a primary and priority target for future investments in the region.","PeriodicalId":164355,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130051485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fostering Bilateral Ties: Exploring Paradiplomacy in the Sister City Collaboration between Padang and Ba Ria Vung Tau","authors":"Adinda Daffa Aprilian, Fatihatur Rahmi Azizah","doi":"10.18196/jpcn.v2i1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v2i1.33","url":null,"abstract":"Padang, situated on the west coast of West Sumatra, serves as the capital city of West Sumatra Province, renowned for its thriving industrial, trade, service sectors, and tourism. Owing to the diverse and unique characteristics of Padang, the city has established a Sister City collaboration with Ba Ria Vung Tau. The latter, having expressed keen interest in this partnership, engaged in fruitful negotiations with Padang's Mayor, culminating in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on May 31, 2016. The primary motivation behind this collaboration is the striking geographical and demographic similarities between the two cities, as well as their shared potential for growth. This paper examines the establishment of Sister City cooperation within the framework of paradiplomacy, which seeks to forge cooperative ties between domestic and foreign regions.","PeriodicalId":164355,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132061505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laili Nur Atikah, Christy Damayanti, Untari Narulita, T. P. Handayani
{"title":"Development of Sister City Cooperation Between Semarang and Jung-gu in 2009–2017","authors":"Laili Nur Atikah, Christy Damayanti, Untari Narulita, T. P. Handayani","doi":"10.18196/jpcn.v2i1.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v2i1.22","url":null,"abstract":"Located in Central Java Province, Semarang City is one of Indonesia’s major urban centers. As a type of paradiplomacy, the Regional Government of Semarang City has established sister city relationships with the governments of Brisbane (Australia), Beihai, Nanjing, and Fuzhou (China), Split (Croatia), and Jung-gu, Ulsan Metropolitan City (South Korea). At the office of the Mayor of Jung-gu in Ulsan Metropolitan City, South Korea, the Governments of Semarang and Jung-gu signed a point of cooperation formalizing their sister city relationship. Shared interests, exchanging potentials, reciprocal relationships, being actively oriented toward the community, the existence of short- and long-term strategic benefits, exclusivity and closeness in the sense of not having a sister city relationship with other cities, and stable political conditions in the country where the sister city was located were all principles that should be prioritized in carrying out this cooperation. The historical foundations of the diplomatic relationships between Semarang and Jung-gu were bolstered by infrastructure and natural resources facilitating and encouraging further development of the two cities’ previously substantial relations. ","PeriodicalId":164355,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133034330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurkhoiriyah Siregar, Muhammad Fawwaz Syafiq Rizqullah
{"title":"Sister City Partnership of Bandung and Kawasaki in the Environmental Sector during 2017-2020","authors":"Nurkhoiriyah Siregar, Muhammad Fawwaz Syafiq Rizqullah","doi":"10.18196/jpcn.v1i2.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v1i2.23","url":null,"abstract":"Between 2017 and 2020, Bandung, Indonesia, and Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, worked together as part of a sister city collaboration in the environmental sector. Bandung and Kawasaki are sister cities, and their governments have cooperated to address Bandung’s waste management and environmental issues as part of this sister-city collaboration. This study employed an interview and a literature review alongside a descriptive qualitative method to get to the bottom of the research topic. This study also applied the theories of “sister cities” and “city diplomacy” in assessing the findings. The study’s findings revealed that the collaboration helped strengthen Bandung’s human resources and enhance the city’s ability to manage and deal with waste issues. This study also discovered that the partnership ran into problems with finances, the Covid-19 pandemic, the communication process, and the priority given to training initiatives over infrastructure. ","PeriodicalId":164355,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121302502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of Indonesia-South Korea Cooperation in the Saemaul Undong Program in Sumbermulyo Village, Bantul, through a Participatory Approach","authors":"Radika Ayu Agustiana, Silvia Dian Anggraeni, Ardila Putri, Adli Hazmi","doi":"10.18196/jpcn.v1i2.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v1i2.19","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1970s, under President Park Chung Hee, the Saemaul Undong Movement was established to overcome the economic issues in underdeveloped and impoverished rural areas. Saemaul Undong is based on three principles: diligence, self-help, and cooperation. The program’s success in South Korea inspired the government to promote it to other countries, especially those in need. Sumbermulyo Village was one of three villages in the Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY) selected in 2015 when an MoU on collaboration with Saemaul Undong was signed between Indonesia and South Korea. The study revealed several differences in perceptions among the various stakeholders involved in the implementation of Saemaul Undong in Sumbermulyo Village, especially concerning funding, using several indicators of a participatory approach elaborated with in-depth interviews from relevant sources. The training program designed to alter people’s worldviews was sometimes criticized for taking too long to produce desirable results. The implementation deviated from the plan as a result. ","PeriodicalId":164355,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132034505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iva Rachmawati, Siti Darwinda Mohamad Pero, Muhammad Ridho Wirawan
{"title":"The Role of Paradiplomacy in the Development of the Aruk Border Area","authors":"Iva Rachmawati, Siti Darwinda Mohamad Pero, Muhammad Ridho Wirawan","doi":"10.18196/jpcn.v1i2.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v1i2.18","url":null,"abstract":"Being isolated and lacking public facilities, border areas tend to be neglected. On the other hand, border areas can serve as economic and social hubs if isolation is broken through development and international cooperation. The Aruk border area in Sambas Regency was extremely underdeveloped before the construction of the Aruk Cross-border Post (PLBN). Opening the remoteness of Aruk was a challenging endeavor. However, through the local government’s efforts, Aruk has become one of the wheels of the economy in Sajingan Besar District, Sambas Regency. Using the concepts of the formal and informal roles of paradiplomacy in transborder diplomacy, this article reviews how paradiplomacy attempts to open up the isolation of Aruk for the welfare of the people at the border. This qualitative research discovered that the roles of formal and informal paradiplomacy in Sambas have significantly affected the development of the regency. Formal relationships have been held in the KK Sosek Malindo, while informal relationships have been built by personal relationships owned by regional sub-national actors. The two relations have encouraged the birth of policies supporting the border area’s development in Aruk.","PeriodicalId":164355,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128288715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tian Adhia Nugraha, Andini Hayu Agus Putri, M. Ahmad
{"title":"Keraton Yogyakarta Cultural Diplomacy: Krida Mardawa as an Actor of Javanese Cultural Diplomacy in Introducing Cultural Heritage Value","authors":"Tian Adhia Nugraha, Andini Hayu Agus Putri, M. Ahmad","doi":"10.18196/jpcn.v1i2.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v1i2.21","url":null,"abstract":"Cultural diplomacy can be a way to strengthen state relations with the international community. Indonesia through the Keraton Yogyakarta has taken this method as an approach to enhance and establish ties with the destination country for cultural diplomacy. The Keraton Yogyakarta is known as an institution that maintains and preserves the Javanese culture of Yogyakarta. On several occasions, the Keraton Yogyakarta through Krida Mardawa. became an actor in Indonesian cultural diplomacy. This study shows the efforts made by the Keraton Yogyakarta through the arts division of Krida Mardawa in cultural diplomacy as well as promoting Indonesian culture abroad. This study uses qualitative data collection with primary sources and uses the approach of Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Heritage Value theories, along with the concept of Cultural Institutions. In this study, there are findings that the Keraton Yogyakarta does not only carry out cultural diplomacy by promoting Javanese culture. but there are efforts to introduce the philosophical values possessed by Javanese culture to the international world.","PeriodicalId":164355,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130829615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tia Agustina, Azhar, Andries Lionardo, Ferdiansyah Rivai, Yuniarsih Manggarsari
{"title":"The Effort of Musi Banyuasin to Gain Interest in the International World","authors":"Tia Agustina, Azhar, Andries Lionardo, Ferdiansyah Rivai, Yuniarsih Manggarsari","doi":"10.18196/jpcn.v1i2.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v1i2.20","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the Musi Banyuasin Regency Government’s role as a regional actor in international affairs. Regional governments can develop the region and affect the regional economy thanks to paradiplomacy, one of the phenomena in international relations that seeks to involve international relations actors. This research was grounded in the paradiplomacy theory proposed by Pertti Joenniemi and Alexander Sergunin. This study employed a descriptive qualitative method, aiming to provide a general overview of the subject of study by using data collected in their raw form without applying any analysis and drawing any pertinent conclusions. Primary data were collected from the Musi Banyuasin Regency Government. In contrast, secondary data came from the Musi Banyuasin Regency Government’s official website and news articles discussing the research subject. Following the findings, the Government of Musi Banyuasin Regency fulfilled its role as an international relations actor by implementing paradiplomatic methods such as promoting a positive image of the region through participation in international forums, joining international organizations, and collaborating with them.","PeriodicalId":164355,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116831078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Implementation of Sister City Agreement on Tourism between the Special Region of Yogyakarta Indonesia and Kyoto Japan","authors":"Luna Tristofa, Aaron Tham","doi":"10.18196/jpcn.v1i1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v1i1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Sister City between Yogyakarta and Kyoto is one of the most active cooperations in Indonesia. This cooperation covers various fields such as academics, economy, culture, and tourism. This paper focuses merely on the tourism sector program from 2015 to 2018 because Yogyakarta and Kyoto are famous tourism destinations. Moreover, from 2015 to 2018, there was a significant increase in Japanese tourists coming to Yogyakarta. It prompts an investigation on ‘how did the implementation of the cooperative agreement in tourism from 2015 to 2018 between the Special Region of Yogyakarta and Kyoto lead to mutual benefits?’. It is underpinned by two theoretical frameworks: the sister city concept and cultural diplomacy. This research aims to unpack the implementation of the Sister City Program between the Special Region of Yogyakarta and Kyoto in tourism from 2015 to 2018. This research revealed successful cooperation related to disaster risk and tourism management, promotion, and information.","PeriodicalId":164355,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116293373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}