Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo: Enhancing Indonesia’s Multilateral Defence Diplomacy?

Defence diplomacy has gained attention in the past decades. Hence, Indonesia has also developed its defence diplomacy for achieving its strategic interests. In Indonesia’s defence diplomacy, bilateral forms have dominated the practice of joint exercises with its defence partners. However, under the...

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Autor principal:	Frega Wenas Inkiriwang
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	SAGE Publishing 2021
Materias:	International relations JZ2-6530 Political institutions and public administration - Asia (Asian studies only) JQ1-6651 Social sciences and state - Asia (Asian studies only) H53
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:61aafa260d0a4665b95e1b06508e52562021-11-18T22:33:37ZMultilateral Naval Exercise Komodo: Enhancing Indonesia’s Multilateral Defence Diplomacy?1868-10341868-488210.1177/18681034211008905https://doaj.org/article/61aafa260d0a4665b95e1b06508e52562021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1177/18681034211008905https://doaj.org/toc/1868-1034https://doaj.org/toc/1868-4882Defence diplomacy has gained attention in the past decades. Hence, Indonesia has also developed its defence diplomacy for achieving its strategic interests. In Indonesia’s defence diplomacy, bilateral forms have dominated the practice of joint exercises with its defence partners. However, under the Yudhoyono administration in 2014, Indonesia hosted its first multilateral joint exercise, the Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo (MNEK), which aimed at facilitating multilateral engagement with greater international partners. This exercise was continued by the Widodo administration as a biannual event in the following years. Since this multilateral exercise has rarely been studied, this article attempts to qualitatively examine how this exercise has developed and contributed to Indonesia’s multilateral defence diplomacy. To support the analysis, this article relies on a combination of documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews, including with numerous participants of past MNEK exercises in 2014, 2016, and 2018.Frega Wenas InkiriwangSAGE PublishingarticleInternational relationsJZ2-6530Political institutions and public administration - Asia (Asian studies only)JQ1-6651Social sciences and state - Asia (Asian studies only)H53ENJournal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Vol 40 (2021)
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description	Defence diplomacy has gained attention in the past decades. Hence, Indonesia has also developed its defence diplomacy for achieving its strategic interests. In Indonesia’s defence diplomacy, bilateral forms have dominated the practice of joint exercises with its defence partners. However, under the Yudhoyono administration in 2014, Indonesia hosted its first multilateral joint exercise, the Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo (MNEK), which aimed at facilitating multilateral engagement with greater international partners. This exercise was continued by the Widodo administration as a biannual event in the following years. Since this multilateral exercise has rarely been studied, this article attempts to qualitatively examine how this exercise has developed and contributed to Indonesia’s multilateral defence diplomacy. To support the analysis, this article relies on a combination of documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews, including with numerous participants of past MNEK exercises in 2014, 2016, and 2018.
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title	Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo: Enhancing Indonesia’s Multilateral Defence Diplomacy?
title_short	Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo: Enhancing Indonesia’s Multilateral Defence Diplomacy?
title_full	Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo: Enhancing Indonesia’s Multilateral Defence Diplomacy?
title_fullStr	Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo: Enhancing Indonesia’s Multilateral Defence Diplomacy?
title_full_unstemmed	Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo: Enhancing Indonesia’s Multilateral Defence Diplomacy?
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Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo: Enhancing Indonesia’s Multilateral Defence Diplomacy?

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