As Indonesia gets closer to preside over the G20 Leaders Summit in November 2022, the critical foundation was laid during the Bali G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in July. But the path to November could be rough as Indonesia needs to weather out the current geopolitical and environmental recession to seek opportunities and foster collective enterprise amid glooming global forecast. Indonesia must rests and muster its national resources in the strength of its values and the vigor of its foreign policy and diplomacy tradition if it wants to successfully spearhead a leadership role than just a chairmanship ones.
ASEAN and its tenacity to progress
The 38th and 39th ASEAN Summits have been concluded. This year’s Summits will be positively scrutinized for many years to come. For the first time…
Making sense of ASEAN’s decision on Myanmar: A legal point of view
This article was published in thejakartapost.com with the title “Making sense of ASEAN’s decision on Myanmar: A legal point of view”. Click…
AUKUS, Indonesia, and the Indo-Pacific cauldron
In his renowned 2014 book, “Asia’s Cauldron: South China Sea and the End of Stable Pacific” Robert D. Kaplan offered…
Prospects and Challenges for Indonesia to Counter IUU Fishing as a Transnational Organized Crime
Authors: Ahmad Almaududy Amri Ph.D and Aloysius Selwas Taborat LL.M* [I wrote this article in collaboration with my colleague Ahmad…
How Singapore summit impacts Southeast Asia
By: Aloysius Selwas Taborat and Danurdoro K.M. Parnohadiningrat *Another collaboration. This time was with my friend Danurdoro. Written in the…
Instilling ‘musyawarah’ in UN Security Council
by: Aloysius Selwas Taborat *This was published by theJakartaPost on April 8, 2018. Pretty much driven by the air attacked…
The Djuanda Declaration has more to offer
by: Muhammad Taufan and Aloysius Selwas Taborat *This is an article that I co-authored with my colleague Muhammad Taufan Ph.D and…
Trump’s executive order fiasco and US – Indo relationship
As the events unfolds, Trump’s Executive Order titled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” continue…
A Law Enforcement Response to Hostage Taking: ACCT in Perspective
[DISCLAIMER : This post has not been adjusted to new developments in hostage taking situation. The recent release of another four Indonesian…
Aloysius Selwas Taborat 