{"title":"8. Drifting towards Dynamic Equilibrium: Indonesia’s South China Sea Policy under Yudhoyono","authors":"Evan A. Laksmana.","doi":"10.1355/9789814786973-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814786973-009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines Indonesia’s South China Sea policy under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. For much of his administration (2004–14), Indonesia held on to three interrelated policy concepts: non-claimant, honest broker, and confidence-builder. Indonesia is a non-claimant as it does not stake a claim in the disputed waters of the Spratlys. Indonesia maintained a non-claimant status because China has yet to clarify publicly its infamous “nine-dash line” map. In the absence of such clarification, Jakarta has not acknowledged that any maritime boundary dispute with Beijing exists — which has allowed Indonesia to exploit the hydrocarbon and marine resources of the Natunas’ exclusive economic zones (EEZs). Ambiguity over the nine-dash line thus seemingly benefited both China and Indonesia. A non-claimant position has further allowed Indonesia to play the role of an “honest broker” among the claimants. Indonesia has played that role by becoming a confidence-builder seeking to peacefully manage, rather than legally resolve, the disputes through multilateral","PeriodicalId":395276,"journal":{"name":"Aspirations with Limitations","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122694714","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":"6. International Labour Migration: A Very Mixed Blessing","authors":"C. Manning, Sukamdi","doi":"10.1355/9789814786973-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814786973-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395276,"journal":{"name":"Aspirations with Limitations","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132861864","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":"4. International Economic Cooperation during the Yudhoyono Presidency","authors":"M. M. Wihardja, S. Negara","doi":"10.1355/9789814786973-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814786973-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395276,"journal":{"name":"Aspirations with Limitations","volume":"827 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116143603","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}
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