jokowi’s visit will highlight why indonesia is a natural u.s. partner
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1 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight
Why Indonesia Is a Natural US PartnerBy Brian Harding October 21 2015
On Ocober 26 Indonesian Presiden Joko Widodo known universally as Jokowi will
visi he W hie House o mee wih Presiden Barack Obama capping a busy season
o presidenial-level diplomacy wih Eas Asia1 Jokowi will also give a speech o busi-
ness leaders in Washingon and wil l visi San Francisco o mee wih ech execuives
during his rip
o he business leaders Jokowi will make he case ha 12 monhs ino his adminisra-
ion he has improved he oreign invesmen climae and ha Indonesia is open or
business o Presiden Obama he will sress ha Indonesia is a key parner on a range o
regional and global issues and ha he naion is no urning inward as many observers
ear Troughou he visi Jokowi and his advisors will seek o ell his personal sory991252a
journey ha should resonae wih any American willing o lisen
Jokowi elected as vanguard of change
In Ocober 2014 Jokowi became he presiden o Indonesia succeeding Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono who sepped down afer a consiuionally limied wo erms in
office2 Tis ransiion o power demonsraes he exraordinary progress Indonesia has
made since he bloody end o auhoriarian Presiden Suharorsquos 33-year reign in 19983
In deeaing Prabowo Subiano a scion o he Jakara esablishmen Jokowirsquos elecion
also marked a repudiaion o business as usual I was Jokowirsquos down-o-earh credenials
and poliical-ousider persona ha appealed o voers wary o he influence o poliical
elies who susain a culure o ren-seeking and paronage Despie his relaively limied
experience99125210 years ago he was a urniure salesman and hree years ago he was
mayor o a small ciy991252Jokowi was seen as a reormer capable o improving he lives o
average Indonesians despie a poliical environmen dominaed by money poliics His
rags-o-riches sory and personal undersanding o he challenges acing ens o millions
o Indonesians brough hope ha he could be a new ype o Indonesian poliical leader4
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In he broader conex o Asiarsquos poliical culure i was noable ha Jokowi ran as a
progressive and won amid a sea o conservaive Indonesian poliical elies and leaders
hroughou Eas Asia A principal hrus o Jokowirsquos campaign message was he need
o reduce inequaliy in Indonesia by invesing in healh care and educaion o help
level he playing field or low-income Indonesians He has been able o make progress
on his ron Some o his firs acs as presiden were o phase ou uel subsidies hadisproporionaely benefied he rich and o redirec he savings o educaion and healh
care or he poor5 Jokowi also ran as a clean reormer and afer gaining office he ook
he unprecedened sep o veting his cabine choices wih Indonesiarsquos Corrupion
Eradicaion Commission6 While Jokowirsquos ambiious plans o rapidly improve inra-
srucure largely have ye o maerialize a key underlying principle o his vision is
o increase conneciviy hroughou he Indonesian archipelago and hereby reduce
inequaliy beween relaively prosperous Java and Sumara in he wes and he poorer
islands in he eas7
Headwinds
Unorunaely Jokowirsquos elecion came wih unreasonable expecaions given srong
headwinds or Indonesiarsquos economy and Jokowirsquos relaive lack o saure wih he coun-
ryrsquos poliical and business elie
While largely ou o Jokowirsquos conrol he economy has no done well during his enure
His 12 monhs in power have coincided wih a slowing Chinese economy and a relaed
decline in prices o he commodiies ha had ueled 6 percen annual gross domesic
produc or GDP growh in Indonesia rom 2010 o 20138
As a resul GDP growhhas slowed o 47 percen9 and unmasked deep underlying problems in he Indonesian
economy including an underdeveloped manuacuring secor10 While atracing oreign
invesmen has been a major prioriy or Jokowi inernaional invesors have remained
wary o Indonesiarsquos regulaory environmen bureaucraic red ape and lenghy negaive
invesmen lis o is credi he Jokowi adminisraion has been ocused on improving
licensing procedures and oher barriers o enry bu i remains o be seen wheher inves-
ors will respond Te Indonesian rupiah alling o is lowes level since he 1997ndash1998
Asian financial crisis has added o difficulies11
A highly complex poliical environmen has also been a drag on Jokowirsquos policy agenda
Despie winning 53 percen o he voe12 his pary991252he Indonesian Democraic Pary
o Sruggle or PDI-P991252only conrols 19 percen o parliamen seas13 and is hereore in
a coaliion wih five oher paries each o which holds cabine posiions Even wihin his
own pary Jokowi wields only moderae influence wih ormer Presiden and curren
pary Chairwoman Megawai Sukarnopuri calling he shos and effecively conrol-
ling several minisers14 Vice Presiden Jusu Kalla who was chosen by he pary is ye
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anoher power cener wih deeply enrenched personal ineress and srong ies o a
major opposiion pary15 In every relaionship Jokowi is he newcomer o Jakara ry-
ing o navigae a highly complex web o personal poliical and business alliances many
o which benefi rom business as usual
Given his complex poliical errain Jokowi undersood rom day one ha he would
need bureaucraic savvy and srong public backing in order o ge hings done Onhe bureaucraic ron Jokowi has been somewha successul paricularly in cenral-
izing decision-making16 However Jokowirsquos honeymoon wih he Indonesian public
was shor lived largely due o his reusal o sand up or he Corrupion Eradicaion
Commission991252previously he mos respeced insiuion in he counry991252when i
named a police general who Jokowi had nominaed o be naional chie o police a he
behes o Megawai a graf suspec17 Nine monhs laer Jokowirsquos approval raings have
marginally recovered bu many Indonesians now long or sronger leadership18
Jokowi and the world
Wih he worldrsquos ourh-larges populaion membership in he G-20 and de aco lead-
ership o he Associaion o Souheas Asian Naions or ASEAN Indonesia is a major
regional player wih global imporance Is example as a large Muslim-majoriy naion
wih a highly successul democracy 19 is an imporan demonsraion o he world o he
inheren compaibiliy beween Islam and democracy Under Yudhoyono Indonesia
emerged rom he ashes o he Asian financial crisis o become a key inernaional player
perhaps mos imporanly working successully o hold ASEAN ogeher when crises
hreaened o pull i apar20
Jokowirsquos clear ocus on domesic policy issues has creaed concerns inernaionally and
among Indonesiarsquos oreign policy elie ha he counry will urn inward and disconinue
is emergence as a major acor in he inernaional sysem Tis has come a a ime when
progress oward a diplomaic soluion o he Souh China Sea dispue and he Rohingya
migran crisis necessiae more ASEAN cohesion making Indonesian leadership more
imporan han ever Ye Jokowi has explicily downgraded he imporance o ASEAN
in Indonesian oreign policy and reused o call Indonesiarsquos leadership in ASEAN is op
oreign policy prioriy as i had been in he pas21 His appoinmen o Reno Marsudi991252a
Europe specialis chosen largely because Jokowi believes ha she undersands he con-
cerns o average Indonesians22 much like Jokowi himsel991252as miniser o oreign affairs
does no sugges an ambiious role or Indonesia in Asia aken ogeher many in he
inernaional communiy are concerned ha Indonesia migh no be able o play he role
o roubleshooer when problems arise as i ofen did when ormer Presiden Yudhoyono
and ormer Foreign Miniser Mary Naalegawa were a he helm23
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In a break rom radiion Jokowi has se his sighs boh more broadly and more narrowly
in he conduc o oreign policy by prioriizing bilaeral relaions wih major powers wih
he overarching aim o achieving pracical gains or Indonesia Mos noably Jokowi has
ocused on increasing oreign invesmen in Indonesia paricularly in inrasrucure24
However coninued uncerainy in he regulaory environmen including concerns over
sae-invesor dispue setlemen issues25 have hampered invesmen realizaion
One major policy plaorm ha has inernaional implicaions is Jokowirsquos pledge o urn
Indonesia ino a ldquoglobal mariime ulcrumrdquo26 While his is primarily a domesic policy
iniiaive991252aimed a increasing conneciviy hroughou he Indonesian archipelago and
accruing more economic benefis rom Indonesian litoral waers991252i provides hope ha
Indonesia will play an increasingly prominen role in broader regional mariime affairs
US-Indonesia relations
US-Indonesia relaions are warm and growing having improved markedly in recen years Tis has paricularly been he case since Presidens Obama and ormer Presiden
Yudhoyono signed he US-Indonesia Comprehensive Parnership agreemen in 2010
which creaed an annual meeing beween he US secreary o sae and he Indonesian
oreign miniser and insiuionalized cooperaion beween he wo governmens
across a range o fields27 Presiden Obamarsquos and Presiden Yudhoyonorsquos deep personal
ineres in he relaionship991252parly he resul o significan ime spen in one anoherrsquos
counriesrsquo991252provided ballas o he relaionship during he five and a hal years he wo
overlapped in office Warm personal ies beween Obama and Jokowi which have been
plainly eviden in heir exchanges on he sidelines o several regional summis over he
pas year coninue o conribue o a posiive amosphere in bilaeral relaions28
Afer nearly 15 years o rozen miliary-miliary ies due o he Indonesian armed orcesrsquo
human righs abuses during he 1990s cooperaion on deense and securiy issues has
emerged as a highligh o bilaeral relaions wih dozens o annual miliary exercises
counererrorism and law enorcemen cooperaion and several US deense equipmen
sales o Indonesia29 On poliical securiy affairs he Unied Saes and Indonesia are
working closely ogeher in inernaional orums30 People-o-people ies are also grow-
ing and he Unied Saes and Indonesia have begun o work ogeher on economic
developmen projecs in hird counries such as Myanmar and Papua New Guinea31
Unorunaely economic ies have lagged behind wih bilaeral rade a only approxi-
maely $30 billion and rade policy a perennial issue o disagreemen32
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Jokowi visits the White House
Presiden Jokowirsquos visi is se o produce numerous angible resuls racking closely
wih his mission o advance Indonesiarsquos saure as a mariime-cenric power mariime
cooperaion will be a he op o he agenda which will include a new agreemen on
coas guard cooperaion33 Deense indusry cooperaion will also be high on he lis
wih US firms ineresed in benefiing rom a growing deense budge and Indonesiaseeking o develop is own indigenous deense indusry34
Commercial deals may also be concluded which would be an imporan signal ha
recen reorms o he invesmen climae mean ha Indonesia is indeed open or busi-
ness35 I so his would breah new lie ino an economic relaionship ha lags behind
oher pars o he parnership
Wih deliverables nearly finalized Jokowi will now ocus on projecing an image o
himsel as a global leader wih a human ouch he one ha his supporers991252boh
Indonesian and inernaional991252have hoped he could be While ies beween he UniedSaes and Indonesia improved dramaically under Presiden Yudhoyono Presiden
Jokowirsquos personal charisma provides an opporuniy o demonsrae why he Unied
Saes and Indonesia share so much in common While i has been difficul or Jokowi o
mee he expecaions hrus on him by he 71 million Indonesians who voed or him
he represens heir collecive opimism and hope or a beter uure as well as a belie
ha one can rise rom povery o he presidency jus as he did I is hard o imagine a
more naural parner or he Unied Saes
Brian Harding is the Director for East and Southeast Asia for the National Security and
International Policy team at the Center for American Progress
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Endnotes
1 The White House ldquoStatement by the Press Secretary on theVisit of President Joko Widodo of Indonesiardquo Press releaseSeptember 21 2015 available at httpjakartausembassygovnewswh_150921enhtml
2 Indonesian Const amend I art 7 available at httpcon-finderrichmondeduadmindocsIndonesia1stpdf (lastaccessed October 2015)
3 Joe Cochrane ldquoIn Southeast Asia Indonesia Is an UnlikelyRole for Democracyrdquo The New York Times September 42014 available at httpwwwnytimescom20140905worldasiain-southeast-asia-indonesia-becomes-a-role-model-for-democracyhtml
4 Ross Tapsell ldquoThe Jokowi Phenomenonrdquo Inside Story January16 2014 available at httpinsidestoryorgauthe-jokowi-phenomenon
5 The Economist ldquoA good scraprdquo January 10 2015 available athttpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21638179-jokowi-abandons-wasteful-fuel-subsidies-fiscal-prospects-bright-en-good-scrap
6 Novy Lumanauw and Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowi Strikes EightNames From Cabinet Line-Up After KPK Red Flagrdquo JakartaGlobe October 22 2014 available at httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowi-strikes-eight-names-cabinet-
line-kpk-red-flag
7 Linda Yulisman ldquoJokowi renews commitment to eastern In-donesiardquo The Jakarta Post May 26 2015 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20150526jokowi-renews-commitment-eastern-indonesiahtml
8 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentldquoOECD Economic Surveys I ndonesiardquo (2015) availableat httpwwwoecdorgecosurveysOverview-Indone-sia-2015pdf
9 The World Bank ldquoIndonesia Economic Quarterly July2015 Slower Gainsrdquo July 8 2015 available at httpwwwworldbankorgennewsfeature20150708indonesia-economic-quarterly-july-2015
10 The World Bank ldquoPicking up the Pace Reviving Growth in In-donesiarsquos Manufacturing Sectorrdquo (2012) available at httpwwwworldbankorgcontentdamWorldbankdocument
Indonesia-ExecSum-Manufacturing-ENGpdf
11 Patturaja Murugaboopathy ldquoRupiah woes Clock ticking forunhedged Indonesian companiesrdquo Reuters May 20 2015available at httpwwwreuterscomarticle20150520in-donesia-markets-rupiah-hedging-idUSL3N0YB2IJ20150520
12 Yenni Kwok ldquoWith the Election of Joko Widodo IndonesiaWrites a New Chapterrdquo Time July 23 2014 available athttptimecom3020999indonesia-joko-widodo-jokowi-declared-president
13 Joe Cochrane ldquoEarly Count in Indonesia Favors Largest Op-position Partyrdquo The New York Times April 9 2014 available athttpwwwnytimescom20140410worldasiaIndonesia-electionshtml
14 Anita Rachman and Ben Otto ldquoMegarsquos Message to JokowiIrsquom the Bossrdquo The Wall Street Journal April 11 2015 availableat httpblogswsjcomindonesiarealtime20150411megas-message-to-jokowi-im-the-boss
15 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ldquoIndonesian presi-dential frontrunner Jokowi picks ex-vice president Kallaas running materdquo May 19 2014 available at httpwwwabcnetaunews2014-05-19an-indonesian-presidential-frontrunner-jokowi-picks-kalla-as-ru5462402
16 Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowirsquos Chief of Staff Given Even More Power-ful Rolerdquo Jakarta Globe March 2 2015 available at http jakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowis-chief-staff-given-even-powerful-role
17 Catriona Croft-Cusworth ldquoThe honeymoon is over forJokowirdquo The Sydney Morning Herald July 11 2015 availableat httpwwwsmhcomaunationalthe-honeymoon-is-over-for-jokowi-20150709-gi98ughtml
18 Saiful Muljani Research and Consulting ldquoSMRC TingkatKepuasan Publik terhadap Jokowi Masih MencerminkanSuara PilPres 2014rdquo October 20 2015 available at httpwwwsaifulmujanicomblog20151020smrc-tingkat-kepuasan-publik-terhadap-jokowi-masih-mencerminkan-suara-pilpres-2014
19 Drew DeSilver ldquoWorldrsquos Muslim population morewidespread than you might thinkrdquo Pew Research CenterJune 7 2013 available at httpwwwpewresearchorgfact-tank20130607worlds-muslim-population-more-widespread-than-you-might-think
20 Bagus BT Saragih ldquoRI finds common ASEAN ground in seadisputerdquo The Jakarta Post July 23 2012 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20120723ri-finds-com-mon-asean-ground-sea-disputehtml
21 The Economist ldquoA thousand jilted friendsrdquo May 2 2015 avail-able at httpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21650173-new-president-charts-markedly-different-course-thousand- jilted-friends
22 Erwida Maulia ldquoIndonesiarsquos Foreign Policy Turns DomesticUnder Jokowirdquo Jakarta Globe December 10 2014 availableat httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsindonesias-foreign-policy-turns-domestic-jokowi
23 Prashanth Parameswaran ldquoIs Indonesia Turning Away FromASEAN Under Jokowirdquo The Diplomat December 18 2014available at httpthediplomatcom201412is-indonesia-turning-away-from-asean-under-jokowi
24 President Joko Widodo ldquoFull Speech Jokowi at APEC CEOSummit 2014rdquo Rappler November 10 2014 availableat httpwwwrapplercomworldregionsasia-pacificindonesia74620-full-speech-joko-widodo-apec-summit-beijing
25 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoInvestor-StateDispute Settlement (ISDS)rdquo available at httpsustrgovabout-uspolicy-officespress-officefact-sheets2015marchinvestor-state-dispute-settlement-isds (last accessedOctober 2015)
26 Rendi A Witular ldquoJokowi launches maritime doctrine to theworldrdquo The Jakarta Post November 13 2014 available athttpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141113jokowi-launches-maritime-doctrine-worldhtml
27 The White House ldquoThe US-Indonesia Comprehensive Part-nershiprdquo Press release June 27 2010 available at httpswwwwhitehousegovthe-press-officeus-indonesia-com-prehensive-partnership
28 Rendi A Witular ldquoObamarsquos unlikely question to JokowiHowrsquos Puncakrdquo The Jakarta Post November 11 2014 avail-able at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141111obama-s-unlikely-question-jokowi-how-s-puncakhtml
29 ldquoTimeline US-Indonesia Relationsrdquo Contemporary Southeast Asia A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 32 (3)(2010) 395ndash398 available at httpsmusejhuedujournalscontemporary_southeast_asia_a_journal_of_interna-tional_and_strategic_affairsv032323article01htm USDepartment of State ldquoUnited States-Indonesia Relatio nsrdquoPress release September 3 2012 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201209197277htm
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30 Robin Bush ldquoAs Host Indonesia Anticipates Obamarsquos FirstEast Asia Summitrdquo The Asia Foundation November 16 2011available at httpasiafoundationorgin-asia20111116as-host-indonesia-anticipates-obamas-first-east-asia-sum-mit
31 US Department of State ldquoUnited States and Indonesia SignSouth-South and Triangular Cooperation Memorandumof Understanding To Support Developing Countriesrdquo Pressrelease February 17 2014 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201402221712htm
32 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoIndonesiardquo availableat httpsustrgovcountries-regionssoutheast-asia-pacificindonesia (last accessed October 2015)
33 Authorrsquos conversations with Indonesian officials during adialogue held at the Center for American Progress Washing-ton DC October 7 2015
34 Ibid
35 Ibid
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2 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
In he broader conex o Asiarsquos poliical culure i was noable ha Jokowi ran as a
progressive and won amid a sea o conservaive Indonesian poliical elies and leaders
hroughou Eas Asia A principal hrus o Jokowirsquos campaign message was he need
o reduce inequaliy in Indonesia by invesing in healh care and educaion o help
level he playing field or low-income Indonesians He has been able o make progress
on his ron Some o his firs acs as presiden were o phase ou uel subsidies hadisproporionaely benefied he rich and o redirec he savings o educaion and healh
care or he poor5 Jokowi also ran as a clean reormer and afer gaining office he ook
he unprecedened sep o veting his cabine choices wih Indonesiarsquos Corrupion
Eradicaion Commission6 While Jokowirsquos ambiious plans o rapidly improve inra-
srucure largely have ye o maerialize a key underlying principle o his vision is
o increase conneciviy hroughou he Indonesian archipelago and hereby reduce
inequaliy beween relaively prosperous Java and Sumara in he wes and he poorer
islands in he eas7
Headwinds
Unorunaely Jokowirsquos elecion came wih unreasonable expecaions given srong
headwinds or Indonesiarsquos economy and Jokowirsquos relaive lack o saure wih he coun-
ryrsquos poliical and business elie
While largely ou o Jokowirsquos conrol he economy has no done well during his enure
His 12 monhs in power have coincided wih a slowing Chinese economy and a relaed
decline in prices o he commodiies ha had ueled 6 percen annual gross domesic
produc or GDP growh in Indonesia rom 2010 o 20138
As a resul GDP growhhas slowed o 47 percen9 and unmasked deep underlying problems in he Indonesian
economy including an underdeveloped manuacuring secor10 While atracing oreign
invesmen has been a major prioriy or Jokowi inernaional invesors have remained
wary o Indonesiarsquos regulaory environmen bureaucraic red ape and lenghy negaive
invesmen lis o is credi he Jokowi adminisraion has been ocused on improving
licensing procedures and oher barriers o enry bu i remains o be seen wheher inves-
ors will respond Te Indonesian rupiah alling o is lowes level since he 1997ndash1998
Asian financial crisis has added o difficulies11
A highly complex poliical environmen has also been a drag on Jokowirsquos policy agenda
Despie winning 53 percen o he voe12 his pary991252he Indonesian Democraic Pary
o Sruggle or PDI-P991252only conrols 19 percen o parliamen seas13 and is hereore in
a coaliion wih five oher paries each o which holds cabine posiions Even wihin his
own pary Jokowi wields only moderae influence wih ormer Presiden and curren
pary Chairwoman Megawai Sukarnopuri calling he shos and effecively conrol-
ling several minisers14 Vice Presiden Jusu Kalla who was chosen by he pary is ye
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anoher power cener wih deeply enrenched personal ineress and srong ies o a
major opposiion pary15 In every relaionship Jokowi is he newcomer o Jakara ry-
ing o navigae a highly complex web o personal poliical and business alliances many
o which benefi rom business as usual
Given his complex poliical errain Jokowi undersood rom day one ha he would
need bureaucraic savvy and srong public backing in order o ge hings done Onhe bureaucraic ron Jokowi has been somewha successul paricularly in cenral-
izing decision-making16 However Jokowirsquos honeymoon wih he Indonesian public
was shor lived largely due o his reusal o sand up or he Corrupion Eradicaion
Commission991252previously he mos respeced insiuion in he counry991252when i
named a police general who Jokowi had nominaed o be naional chie o police a he
behes o Megawai a graf suspec17 Nine monhs laer Jokowirsquos approval raings have
marginally recovered bu many Indonesians now long or sronger leadership18
Jokowi and the world
Wih he worldrsquos ourh-larges populaion membership in he G-20 and de aco lead-
ership o he Associaion o Souheas Asian Naions or ASEAN Indonesia is a major
regional player wih global imporance Is example as a large Muslim-majoriy naion
wih a highly successul democracy 19 is an imporan demonsraion o he world o he
inheren compaibiliy beween Islam and democracy Under Yudhoyono Indonesia
emerged rom he ashes o he Asian financial crisis o become a key inernaional player
perhaps mos imporanly working successully o hold ASEAN ogeher when crises
hreaened o pull i apar20
Jokowirsquos clear ocus on domesic policy issues has creaed concerns inernaionally and
among Indonesiarsquos oreign policy elie ha he counry will urn inward and disconinue
is emergence as a major acor in he inernaional sysem Tis has come a a ime when
progress oward a diplomaic soluion o he Souh China Sea dispue and he Rohingya
migran crisis necessiae more ASEAN cohesion making Indonesian leadership more
imporan han ever Ye Jokowi has explicily downgraded he imporance o ASEAN
in Indonesian oreign policy and reused o call Indonesiarsquos leadership in ASEAN is op
oreign policy prioriy as i had been in he pas21 His appoinmen o Reno Marsudi991252a
Europe specialis chosen largely because Jokowi believes ha she undersands he con-
cerns o average Indonesians22 much like Jokowi himsel991252as miniser o oreign affairs
does no sugges an ambiious role or Indonesia in Asia aken ogeher many in he
inernaional communiy are concerned ha Indonesia migh no be able o play he role
o roubleshooer when problems arise as i ofen did when ormer Presiden Yudhoyono
and ormer Foreign Miniser Mary Naalegawa were a he helm23
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4 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
In a break rom radiion Jokowi has se his sighs boh more broadly and more narrowly
in he conduc o oreign policy by prioriizing bilaeral relaions wih major powers wih
he overarching aim o achieving pracical gains or Indonesia Mos noably Jokowi has
ocused on increasing oreign invesmen in Indonesia paricularly in inrasrucure24
However coninued uncerainy in he regulaory environmen including concerns over
sae-invesor dispue setlemen issues25 have hampered invesmen realizaion
One major policy plaorm ha has inernaional implicaions is Jokowirsquos pledge o urn
Indonesia ino a ldquoglobal mariime ulcrumrdquo26 While his is primarily a domesic policy
iniiaive991252aimed a increasing conneciviy hroughou he Indonesian archipelago and
accruing more economic benefis rom Indonesian litoral waers991252i provides hope ha
Indonesia will play an increasingly prominen role in broader regional mariime affairs
US-Indonesia relations
US-Indonesia relaions are warm and growing having improved markedly in recen years Tis has paricularly been he case since Presidens Obama and ormer Presiden
Yudhoyono signed he US-Indonesia Comprehensive Parnership agreemen in 2010
which creaed an annual meeing beween he US secreary o sae and he Indonesian
oreign miniser and insiuionalized cooperaion beween he wo governmens
across a range o fields27 Presiden Obamarsquos and Presiden Yudhoyonorsquos deep personal
ineres in he relaionship991252parly he resul o significan ime spen in one anoherrsquos
counriesrsquo991252provided ballas o he relaionship during he five and a hal years he wo
overlapped in office Warm personal ies beween Obama and Jokowi which have been
plainly eviden in heir exchanges on he sidelines o several regional summis over he
pas year coninue o conribue o a posiive amosphere in bilaeral relaions28
Afer nearly 15 years o rozen miliary-miliary ies due o he Indonesian armed orcesrsquo
human righs abuses during he 1990s cooperaion on deense and securiy issues has
emerged as a highligh o bilaeral relaions wih dozens o annual miliary exercises
counererrorism and law enorcemen cooperaion and several US deense equipmen
sales o Indonesia29 On poliical securiy affairs he Unied Saes and Indonesia are
working closely ogeher in inernaional orums30 People-o-people ies are also grow-
ing and he Unied Saes and Indonesia have begun o work ogeher on economic
developmen projecs in hird counries such as Myanmar and Papua New Guinea31
Unorunaely economic ies have lagged behind wih bilaeral rade a only approxi-
maely $30 billion and rade policy a perennial issue o disagreemen32
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Jokowi visits the White House
Presiden Jokowirsquos visi is se o produce numerous angible resuls racking closely
wih his mission o advance Indonesiarsquos saure as a mariime-cenric power mariime
cooperaion will be a he op o he agenda which will include a new agreemen on
coas guard cooperaion33 Deense indusry cooperaion will also be high on he lis
wih US firms ineresed in benefiing rom a growing deense budge and Indonesiaseeking o develop is own indigenous deense indusry34
Commercial deals may also be concluded which would be an imporan signal ha
recen reorms o he invesmen climae mean ha Indonesia is indeed open or busi-
ness35 I so his would breah new lie ino an economic relaionship ha lags behind
oher pars o he parnership
Wih deliverables nearly finalized Jokowi will now ocus on projecing an image o
himsel as a global leader wih a human ouch he one ha his supporers991252boh
Indonesian and inernaional991252have hoped he could be While ies beween he UniedSaes and Indonesia improved dramaically under Presiden Yudhoyono Presiden
Jokowirsquos personal charisma provides an opporuniy o demonsrae why he Unied
Saes and Indonesia share so much in common While i has been difficul or Jokowi o
mee he expecaions hrus on him by he 71 million Indonesians who voed or him
he represens heir collecive opimism and hope or a beter uure as well as a belie
ha one can rise rom povery o he presidency jus as he did I is hard o imagine a
more naural parner or he Unied Saes
Brian Harding is the Director for East and Southeast Asia for the National Security and
International Policy team at the Center for American Progress
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Endnotes
1 The White House ldquoStatement by the Press Secretary on theVisit of President Joko Widodo of Indonesiardquo Press releaseSeptember 21 2015 available at httpjakartausembassygovnewswh_150921enhtml
2 Indonesian Const amend I art 7 available at httpcon-finderrichmondeduadmindocsIndonesia1stpdf (lastaccessed October 2015)
3 Joe Cochrane ldquoIn Southeast Asia Indonesia Is an UnlikelyRole for Democracyrdquo The New York Times September 42014 available at httpwwwnytimescom20140905worldasiain-southeast-asia-indonesia-becomes-a-role-model-for-democracyhtml
4 Ross Tapsell ldquoThe Jokowi Phenomenonrdquo Inside Story January16 2014 available at httpinsidestoryorgauthe-jokowi-phenomenon
5 The Economist ldquoA good scraprdquo January 10 2015 available athttpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21638179-jokowi-abandons-wasteful-fuel-subsidies-fiscal-prospects-bright-en-good-scrap
6 Novy Lumanauw and Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowi Strikes EightNames From Cabinet Line-Up After KPK Red Flagrdquo JakartaGlobe October 22 2014 available at httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowi-strikes-eight-names-cabinet-
line-kpk-red-flag
7 Linda Yulisman ldquoJokowi renews commitment to eastern In-donesiardquo The Jakarta Post May 26 2015 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20150526jokowi-renews-commitment-eastern-indonesiahtml
8 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentldquoOECD Economic Surveys I ndonesiardquo (2015) availableat httpwwwoecdorgecosurveysOverview-Indone-sia-2015pdf
9 The World Bank ldquoIndonesia Economic Quarterly July2015 Slower Gainsrdquo July 8 2015 available at httpwwwworldbankorgennewsfeature20150708indonesia-economic-quarterly-july-2015
10 The World Bank ldquoPicking up the Pace Reviving Growth in In-donesiarsquos Manufacturing Sectorrdquo (2012) available at httpwwwworldbankorgcontentdamWorldbankdocument
Indonesia-ExecSum-Manufacturing-ENGpdf
11 Patturaja Murugaboopathy ldquoRupiah woes Clock ticking forunhedged Indonesian companiesrdquo Reuters May 20 2015available at httpwwwreuterscomarticle20150520in-donesia-markets-rupiah-hedging-idUSL3N0YB2IJ20150520
12 Yenni Kwok ldquoWith the Election of Joko Widodo IndonesiaWrites a New Chapterrdquo Time July 23 2014 available athttptimecom3020999indonesia-joko-widodo-jokowi-declared-president
13 Joe Cochrane ldquoEarly Count in Indonesia Favors Largest Op-position Partyrdquo The New York Times April 9 2014 available athttpwwwnytimescom20140410worldasiaIndonesia-electionshtml
14 Anita Rachman and Ben Otto ldquoMegarsquos Message to JokowiIrsquom the Bossrdquo The Wall Street Journal April 11 2015 availableat httpblogswsjcomindonesiarealtime20150411megas-message-to-jokowi-im-the-boss
15 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ldquoIndonesian presi-dential frontrunner Jokowi picks ex-vice president Kallaas running materdquo May 19 2014 available at httpwwwabcnetaunews2014-05-19an-indonesian-presidential-frontrunner-jokowi-picks-kalla-as-ru5462402
16 Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowirsquos Chief of Staff Given Even More Power-ful Rolerdquo Jakarta Globe March 2 2015 available at http jakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowis-chief-staff-given-even-powerful-role
17 Catriona Croft-Cusworth ldquoThe honeymoon is over forJokowirdquo The Sydney Morning Herald July 11 2015 availableat httpwwwsmhcomaunationalthe-honeymoon-is-over-for-jokowi-20150709-gi98ughtml
18 Saiful Muljani Research and Consulting ldquoSMRC TingkatKepuasan Publik terhadap Jokowi Masih MencerminkanSuara PilPres 2014rdquo October 20 2015 available at httpwwwsaifulmujanicomblog20151020smrc-tingkat-kepuasan-publik-terhadap-jokowi-masih-mencerminkan-suara-pilpres-2014
19 Drew DeSilver ldquoWorldrsquos Muslim population morewidespread than you might thinkrdquo Pew Research CenterJune 7 2013 available at httpwwwpewresearchorgfact-tank20130607worlds-muslim-population-more-widespread-than-you-might-think
20 Bagus BT Saragih ldquoRI finds common ASEAN ground in seadisputerdquo The Jakarta Post July 23 2012 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20120723ri-finds-com-mon-asean-ground-sea-disputehtml
21 The Economist ldquoA thousand jilted friendsrdquo May 2 2015 avail-able at httpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21650173-new-president-charts-markedly-different-course-thousand- jilted-friends
22 Erwida Maulia ldquoIndonesiarsquos Foreign Policy Turns DomesticUnder Jokowirdquo Jakarta Globe December 10 2014 availableat httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsindonesias-foreign-policy-turns-domestic-jokowi
23 Prashanth Parameswaran ldquoIs Indonesia Turning Away FromASEAN Under Jokowirdquo The Diplomat December 18 2014available at httpthediplomatcom201412is-indonesia-turning-away-from-asean-under-jokowi
24 President Joko Widodo ldquoFull Speech Jokowi at APEC CEOSummit 2014rdquo Rappler November 10 2014 availableat httpwwwrapplercomworldregionsasia-pacificindonesia74620-full-speech-joko-widodo-apec-summit-beijing
25 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoInvestor-StateDispute Settlement (ISDS)rdquo available at httpsustrgovabout-uspolicy-officespress-officefact-sheets2015marchinvestor-state-dispute-settlement-isds (last accessedOctober 2015)
26 Rendi A Witular ldquoJokowi launches maritime doctrine to theworldrdquo The Jakarta Post November 13 2014 available athttpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141113jokowi-launches-maritime-doctrine-worldhtml
27 The White House ldquoThe US-Indonesia Comprehensive Part-nershiprdquo Press release June 27 2010 available at httpswwwwhitehousegovthe-press-officeus-indonesia-com-prehensive-partnership
28 Rendi A Witular ldquoObamarsquos unlikely question to JokowiHowrsquos Puncakrdquo The Jakarta Post November 11 2014 avail-able at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141111obama-s-unlikely-question-jokowi-how-s-puncakhtml
29 ldquoTimeline US-Indonesia Relationsrdquo Contemporary Southeast Asia A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 32 (3)(2010) 395ndash398 available at httpsmusejhuedujournalscontemporary_southeast_asia_a_journal_of_interna-tional_and_strategic_affairsv032323article01htm USDepartment of State ldquoUnited States-Indonesia Relatio nsrdquoPress release September 3 2012 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201209197277htm
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30 Robin Bush ldquoAs Host Indonesia Anticipates Obamarsquos FirstEast Asia Summitrdquo The Asia Foundation November 16 2011available at httpasiafoundationorgin-asia20111116as-host-indonesia-anticipates-obamas-first-east-asia-sum-mit
31 US Department of State ldquoUnited States and Indonesia SignSouth-South and Triangular Cooperation Memorandumof Understanding To Support Developing Countriesrdquo Pressrelease February 17 2014 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201402221712htm
32 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoIndonesiardquo availableat httpsustrgovcountries-regionssoutheast-asia-pacificindonesia (last accessed October 2015)
33 Authorrsquos conversations with Indonesian officials during adialogue held at the Center for American Progress Washing-ton DC October 7 2015
34 Ibid
35 Ibid
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anoher power cener wih deeply enrenched personal ineress and srong ies o a
major opposiion pary15 In every relaionship Jokowi is he newcomer o Jakara ry-
ing o navigae a highly complex web o personal poliical and business alliances many
o which benefi rom business as usual
Given his complex poliical errain Jokowi undersood rom day one ha he would
need bureaucraic savvy and srong public backing in order o ge hings done Onhe bureaucraic ron Jokowi has been somewha successul paricularly in cenral-
izing decision-making16 However Jokowirsquos honeymoon wih he Indonesian public
was shor lived largely due o his reusal o sand up or he Corrupion Eradicaion
Commission991252previously he mos respeced insiuion in he counry991252when i
named a police general who Jokowi had nominaed o be naional chie o police a he
behes o Megawai a graf suspec17 Nine monhs laer Jokowirsquos approval raings have
marginally recovered bu many Indonesians now long or sronger leadership18
Jokowi and the world
Wih he worldrsquos ourh-larges populaion membership in he G-20 and de aco lead-
ership o he Associaion o Souheas Asian Naions or ASEAN Indonesia is a major
regional player wih global imporance Is example as a large Muslim-majoriy naion
wih a highly successul democracy 19 is an imporan demonsraion o he world o he
inheren compaibiliy beween Islam and democracy Under Yudhoyono Indonesia
emerged rom he ashes o he Asian financial crisis o become a key inernaional player
perhaps mos imporanly working successully o hold ASEAN ogeher when crises
hreaened o pull i apar20
Jokowirsquos clear ocus on domesic policy issues has creaed concerns inernaionally and
among Indonesiarsquos oreign policy elie ha he counry will urn inward and disconinue
is emergence as a major acor in he inernaional sysem Tis has come a a ime when
progress oward a diplomaic soluion o he Souh China Sea dispue and he Rohingya
migran crisis necessiae more ASEAN cohesion making Indonesian leadership more
imporan han ever Ye Jokowi has explicily downgraded he imporance o ASEAN
in Indonesian oreign policy and reused o call Indonesiarsquos leadership in ASEAN is op
oreign policy prioriy as i had been in he pas21 His appoinmen o Reno Marsudi991252a
Europe specialis chosen largely because Jokowi believes ha she undersands he con-
cerns o average Indonesians22 much like Jokowi himsel991252as miniser o oreign affairs
does no sugges an ambiious role or Indonesia in Asia aken ogeher many in he
inernaional communiy are concerned ha Indonesia migh no be able o play he role
o roubleshooer when problems arise as i ofen did when ormer Presiden Yudhoyono
and ormer Foreign Miniser Mary Naalegawa were a he helm23
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In a break rom radiion Jokowi has se his sighs boh more broadly and more narrowly
in he conduc o oreign policy by prioriizing bilaeral relaions wih major powers wih
he overarching aim o achieving pracical gains or Indonesia Mos noably Jokowi has
ocused on increasing oreign invesmen in Indonesia paricularly in inrasrucure24
However coninued uncerainy in he regulaory environmen including concerns over
sae-invesor dispue setlemen issues25 have hampered invesmen realizaion
One major policy plaorm ha has inernaional implicaions is Jokowirsquos pledge o urn
Indonesia ino a ldquoglobal mariime ulcrumrdquo26 While his is primarily a domesic policy
iniiaive991252aimed a increasing conneciviy hroughou he Indonesian archipelago and
accruing more economic benefis rom Indonesian litoral waers991252i provides hope ha
Indonesia will play an increasingly prominen role in broader regional mariime affairs
US-Indonesia relations
US-Indonesia relaions are warm and growing having improved markedly in recen years Tis has paricularly been he case since Presidens Obama and ormer Presiden
Yudhoyono signed he US-Indonesia Comprehensive Parnership agreemen in 2010
which creaed an annual meeing beween he US secreary o sae and he Indonesian
oreign miniser and insiuionalized cooperaion beween he wo governmens
across a range o fields27 Presiden Obamarsquos and Presiden Yudhoyonorsquos deep personal
ineres in he relaionship991252parly he resul o significan ime spen in one anoherrsquos
counriesrsquo991252provided ballas o he relaionship during he five and a hal years he wo
overlapped in office Warm personal ies beween Obama and Jokowi which have been
plainly eviden in heir exchanges on he sidelines o several regional summis over he
pas year coninue o conribue o a posiive amosphere in bilaeral relaions28
Afer nearly 15 years o rozen miliary-miliary ies due o he Indonesian armed orcesrsquo
human righs abuses during he 1990s cooperaion on deense and securiy issues has
emerged as a highligh o bilaeral relaions wih dozens o annual miliary exercises
counererrorism and law enorcemen cooperaion and several US deense equipmen
sales o Indonesia29 On poliical securiy affairs he Unied Saes and Indonesia are
working closely ogeher in inernaional orums30 People-o-people ies are also grow-
ing and he Unied Saes and Indonesia have begun o work ogeher on economic
developmen projecs in hird counries such as Myanmar and Papua New Guinea31
Unorunaely economic ies have lagged behind wih bilaeral rade a only approxi-
maely $30 billion and rade policy a perennial issue o disagreemen32
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Jokowi visits the White House
Presiden Jokowirsquos visi is se o produce numerous angible resuls racking closely
wih his mission o advance Indonesiarsquos saure as a mariime-cenric power mariime
cooperaion will be a he op o he agenda which will include a new agreemen on
coas guard cooperaion33 Deense indusry cooperaion will also be high on he lis
wih US firms ineresed in benefiing rom a growing deense budge and Indonesiaseeking o develop is own indigenous deense indusry34
Commercial deals may also be concluded which would be an imporan signal ha
recen reorms o he invesmen climae mean ha Indonesia is indeed open or busi-
ness35 I so his would breah new lie ino an economic relaionship ha lags behind
oher pars o he parnership
Wih deliverables nearly finalized Jokowi will now ocus on projecing an image o
himsel as a global leader wih a human ouch he one ha his supporers991252boh
Indonesian and inernaional991252have hoped he could be While ies beween he UniedSaes and Indonesia improved dramaically under Presiden Yudhoyono Presiden
Jokowirsquos personal charisma provides an opporuniy o demonsrae why he Unied
Saes and Indonesia share so much in common While i has been difficul or Jokowi o
mee he expecaions hrus on him by he 71 million Indonesians who voed or him
he represens heir collecive opimism and hope or a beter uure as well as a belie
ha one can rise rom povery o he presidency jus as he did I is hard o imagine a
more naural parner or he Unied Saes
Brian Harding is the Director for East and Southeast Asia for the National Security and
International Policy team at the Center for American Progress
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Endnotes
1 The White House ldquoStatement by the Press Secretary on theVisit of President Joko Widodo of Indonesiardquo Press releaseSeptember 21 2015 available at httpjakartausembassygovnewswh_150921enhtml
2 Indonesian Const amend I art 7 available at httpcon-finderrichmondeduadmindocsIndonesia1stpdf (lastaccessed October 2015)
3 Joe Cochrane ldquoIn Southeast Asia Indonesia Is an UnlikelyRole for Democracyrdquo The New York Times September 42014 available at httpwwwnytimescom20140905worldasiain-southeast-asia-indonesia-becomes-a-role-model-for-democracyhtml
4 Ross Tapsell ldquoThe Jokowi Phenomenonrdquo Inside Story January16 2014 available at httpinsidestoryorgauthe-jokowi-phenomenon
5 The Economist ldquoA good scraprdquo January 10 2015 available athttpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21638179-jokowi-abandons-wasteful-fuel-subsidies-fiscal-prospects-bright-en-good-scrap
6 Novy Lumanauw and Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowi Strikes EightNames From Cabinet Line-Up After KPK Red Flagrdquo JakartaGlobe October 22 2014 available at httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowi-strikes-eight-names-cabinet-
line-kpk-red-flag
7 Linda Yulisman ldquoJokowi renews commitment to eastern In-donesiardquo The Jakarta Post May 26 2015 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20150526jokowi-renews-commitment-eastern-indonesiahtml
8 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentldquoOECD Economic Surveys I ndonesiardquo (2015) availableat httpwwwoecdorgecosurveysOverview-Indone-sia-2015pdf
9 The World Bank ldquoIndonesia Economic Quarterly July2015 Slower Gainsrdquo July 8 2015 available at httpwwwworldbankorgennewsfeature20150708indonesia-economic-quarterly-july-2015
10 The World Bank ldquoPicking up the Pace Reviving Growth in In-donesiarsquos Manufacturing Sectorrdquo (2012) available at httpwwwworldbankorgcontentdamWorldbankdocument
Indonesia-ExecSum-Manufacturing-ENGpdf
11 Patturaja Murugaboopathy ldquoRupiah woes Clock ticking forunhedged Indonesian companiesrdquo Reuters May 20 2015available at httpwwwreuterscomarticle20150520in-donesia-markets-rupiah-hedging-idUSL3N0YB2IJ20150520
12 Yenni Kwok ldquoWith the Election of Joko Widodo IndonesiaWrites a New Chapterrdquo Time July 23 2014 available athttptimecom3020999indonesia-joko-widodo-jokowi-declared-president
13 Joe Cochrane ldquoEarly Count in Indonesia Favors Largest Op-position Partyrdquo The New York Times April 9 2014 available athttpwwwnytimescom20140410worldasiaIndonesia-electionshtml
14 Anita Rachman and Ben Otto ldquoMegarsquos Message to JokowiIrsquom the Bossrdquo The Wall Street Journal April 11 2015 availableat httpblogswsjcomindonesiarealtime20150411megas-message-to-jokowi-im-the-boss
15 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ldquoIndonesian presi-dential frontrunner Jokowi picks ex-vice president Kallaas running materdquo May 19 2014 available at httpwwwabcnetaunews2014-05-19an-indonesian-presidential-frontrunner-jokowi-picks-kalla-as-ru5462402
16 Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowirsquos Chief of Staff Given Even More Power-ful Rolerdquo Jakarta Globe March 2 2015 available at http jakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowis-chief-staff-given-even-powerful-role
17 Catriona Croft-Cusworth ldquoThe honeymoon is over forJokowirdquo The Sydney Morning Herald July 11 2015 availableat httpwwwsmhcomaunationalthe-honeymoon-is-over-for-jokowi-20150709-gi98ughtml
18 Saiful Muljani Research and Consulting ldquoSMRC TingkatKepuasan Publik terhadap Jokowi Masih MencerminkanSuara PilPres 2014rdquo October 20 2015 available at httpwwwsaifulmujanicomblog20151020smrc-tingkat-kepuasan-publik-terhadap-jokowi-masih-mencerminkan-suara-pilpres-2014
19 Drew DeSilver ldquoWorldrsquos Muslim population morewidespread than you might thinkrdquo Pew Research CenterJune 7 2013 available at httpwwwpewresearchorgfact-tank20130607worlds-muslim-population-more-widespread-than-you-might-think
20 Bagus BT Saragih ldquoRI finds common ASEAN ground in seadisputerdquo The Jakarta Post July 23 2012 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20120723ri-finds-com-mon-asean-ground-sea-disputehtml
21 The Economist ldquoA thousand jilted friendsrdquo May 2 2015 avail-able at httpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21650173-new-president-charts-markedly-different-course-thousand- jilted-friends
22 Erwida Maulia ldquoIndonesiarsquos Foreign Policy Turns DomesticUnder Jokowirdquo Jakarta Globe December 10 2014 availableat httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsindonesias-foreign-policy-turns-domestic-jokowi
23 Prashanth Parameswaran ldquoIs Indonesia Turning Away FromASEAN Under Jokowirdquo The Diplomat December 18 2014available at httpthediplomatcom201412is-indonesia-turning-away-from-asean-under-jokowi
24 President Joko Widodo ldquoFull Speech Jokowi at APEC CEOSummit 2014rdquo Rappler November 10 2014 availableat httpwwwrapplercomworldregionsasia-pacificindonesia74620-full-speech-joko-widodo-apec-summit-beijing
25 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoInvestor-StateDispute Settlement (ISDS)rdquo available at httpsustrgovabout-uspolicy-officespress-officefact-sheets2015marchinvestor-state-dispute-settlement-isds (last accessedOctober 2015)
26 Rendi A Witular ldquoJokowi launches maritime doctrine to theworldrdquo The Jakarta Post November 13 2014 available athttpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141113jokowi-launches-maritime-doctrine-worldhtml
27 The White House ldquoThe US-Indonesia Comprehensive Part-nershiprdquo Press release June 27 2010 available at httpswwwwhitehousegovthe-press-officeus-indonesia-com-prehensive-partnership
28 Rendi A Witular ldquoObamarsquos unlikely question to JokowiHowrsquos Puncakrdquo The Jakarta Post November 11 2014 avail-able at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141111obama-s-unlikely-question-jokowi-how-s-puncakhtml
29 ldquoTimeline US-Indonesia Relationsrdquo Contemporary Southeast Asia A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 32 (3)(2010) 395ndash398 available at httpsmusejhuedujournalscontemporary_southeast_asia_a_journal_of_interna-tional_and_strategic_affairsv032323article01htm USDepartment of State ldquoUnited States-Indonesia Relatio nsrdquoPress release September 3 2012 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201209197277htm
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30 Robin Bush ldquoAs Host Indonesia Anticipates Obamarsquos FirstEast Asia Summitrdquo The Asia Foundation November 16 2011available at httpasiafoundationorgin-asia20111116as-host-indonesia-anticipates-obamas-first-east-asia-sum-mit
31 US Department of State ldquoUnited States and Indonesia SignSouth-South and Triangular Cooperation Memorandumof Understanding To Support Developing Countriesrdquo Pressrelease February 17 2014 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201402221712htm
32 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoIndonesiardquo availableat httpsustrgovcountries-regionssoutheast-asia-pacificindonesia (last accessed October 2015)
33 Authorrsquos conversations with Indonesian officials during adialogue held at the Center for American Progress Washing-ton DC October 7 2015
34 Ibid
35 Ibid
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4 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
In a break rom radiion Jokowi has se his sighs boh more broadly and more narrowly
in he conduc o oreign policy by prioriizing bilaeral relaions wih major powers wih
he overarching aim o achieving pracical gains or Indonesia Mos noably Jokowi has
ocused on increasing oreign invesmen in Indonesia paricularly in inrasrucure24
However coninued uncerainy in he regulaory environmen including concerns over
sae-invesor dispue setlemen issues25 have hampered invesmen realizaion
One major policy plaorm ha has inernaional implicaions is Jokowirsquos pledge o urn
Indonesia ino a ldquoglobal mariime ulcrumrdquo26 While his is primarily a domesic policy
iniiaive991252aimed a increasing conneciviy hroughou he Indonesian archipelago and
accruing more economic benefis rom Indonesian litoral waers991252i provides hope ha
Indonesia will play an increasingly prominen role in broader regional mariime affairs
US-Indonesia relations
US-Indonesia relaions are warm and growing having improved markedly in recen years Tis has paricularly been he case since Presidens Obama and ormer Presiden
Yudhoyono signed he US-Indonesia Comprehensive Parnership agreemen in 2010
which creaed an annual meeing beween he US secreary o sae and he Indonesian
oreign miniser and insiuionalized cooperaion beween he wo governmens
across a range o fields27 Presiden Obamarsquos and Presiden Yudhoyonorsquos deep personal
ineres in he relaionship991252parly he resul o significan ime spen in one anoherrsquos
counriesrsquo991252provided ballas o he relaionship during he five and a hal years he wo
overlapped in office Warm personal ies beween Obama and Jokowi which have been
plainly eviden in heir exchanges on he sidelines o several regional summis over he
pas year coninue o conribue o a posiive amosphere in bilaeral relaions28
Afer nearly 15 years o rozen miliary-miliary ies due o he Indonesian armed orcesrsquo
human righs abuses during he 1990s cooperaion on deense and securiy issues has
emerged as a highligh o bilaeral relaions wih dozens o annual miliary exercises
counererrorism and law enorcemen cooperaion and several US deense equipmen
sales o Indonesia29 On poliical securiy affairs he Unied Saes and Indonesia are
working closely ogeher in inernaional orums30 People-o-people ies are also grow-
ing and he Unied Saes and Indonesia have begun o work ogeher on economic
developmen projecs in hird counries such as Myanmar and Papua New Guinea31
Unorunaely economic ies have lagged behind wih bilaeral rade a only approxi-
maely $30 billion and rade policy a perennial issue o disagreemen32
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5 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
Jokowi visits the White House
Presiden Jokowirsquos visi is se o produce numerous angible resuls racking closely
wih his mission o advance Indonesiarsquos saure as a mariime-cenric power mariime
cooperaion will be a he op o he agenda which will include a new agreemen on
coas guard cooperaion33 Deense indusry cooperaion will also be high on he lis
wih US firms ineresed in benefiing rom a growing deense budge and Indonesiaseeking o develop is own indigenous deense indusry34
Commercial deals may also be concluded which would be an imporan signal ha
recen reorms o he invesmen climae mean ha Indonesia is indeed open or busi-
ness35 I so his would breah new lie ino an economic relaionship ha lags behind
oher pars o he parnership
Wih deliverables nearly finalized Jokowi will now ocus on projecing an image o
himsel as a global leader wih a human ouch he one ha his supporers991252boh
Indonesian and inernaional991252have hoped he could be While ies beween he UniedSaes and Indonesia improved dramaically under Presiden Yudhoyono Presiden
Jokowirsquos personal charisma provides an opporuniy o demonsrae why he Unied
Saes and Indonesia share so much in common While i has been difficul or Jokowi o
mee he expecaions hrus on him by he 71 million Indonesians who voed or him
he represens heir collecive opimism and hope or a beter uure as well as a belie
ha one can rise rom povery o he presidency jus as he did I is hard o imagine a
more naural parner or he Unied Saes
Brian Harding is the Director for East and Southeast Asia for the National Security and
International Policy team at the Center for American Progress
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6 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
Endnotes
1 The White House ldquoStatement by the Press Secretary on theVisit of President Joko Widodo of Indonesiardquo Press releaseSeptember 21 2015 available at httpjakartausembassygovnewswh_150921enhtml
2 Indonesian Const amend I art 7 available at httpcon-finderrichmondeduadmindocsIndonesia1stpdf (lastaccessed October 2015)
3 Joe Cochrane ldquoIn Southeast Asia Indonesia Is an UnlikelyRole for Democracyrdquo The New York Times September 42014 available at httpwwwnytimescom20140905worldasiain-southeast-asia-indonesia-becomes-a-role-model-for-democracyhtml
4 Ross Tapsell ldquoThe Jokowi Phenomenonrdquo Inside Story January16 2014 available at httpinsidestoryorgauthe-jokowi-phenomenon
5 The Economist ldquoA good scraprdquo January 10 2015 available athttpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21638179-jokowi-abandons-wasteful-fuel-subsidies-fiscal-prospects-bright-en-good-scrap
6 Novy Lumanauw and Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowi Strikes EightNames From Cabinet Line-Up After KPK Red Flagrdquo JakartaGlobe October 22 2014 available at httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowi-strikes-eight-names-cabinet-
line-kpk-red-flag
7 Linda Yulisman ldquoJokowi renews commitment to eastern In-donesiardquo The Jakarta Post May 26 2015 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20150526jokowi-renews-commitment-eastern-indonesiahtml
8 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentldquoOECD Economic Surveys I ndonesiardquo (2015) availableat httpwwwoecdorgecosurveysOverview-Indone-sia-2015pdf
9 The World Bank ldquoIndonesia Economic Quarterly July2015 Slower Gainsrdquo July 8 2015 available at httpwwwworldbankorgennewsfeature20150708indonesia-economic-quarterly-july-2015
10 The World Bank ldquoPicking up the Pace Reviving Growth in In-donesiarsquos Manufacturing Sectorrdquo (2012) available at httpwwwworldbankorgcontentdamWorldbankdocument
Indonesia-ExecSum-Manufacturing-ENGpdf
11 Patturaja Murugaboopathy ldquoRupiah woes Clock ticking forunhedged Indonesian companiesrdquo Reuters May 20 2015available at httpwwwreuterscomarticle20150520in-donesia-markets-rupiah-hedging-idUSL3N0YB2IJ20150520
12 Yenni Kwok ldquoWith the Election of Joko Widodo IndonesiaWrites a New Chapterrdquo Time July 23 2014 available athttptimecom3020999indonesia-joko-widodo-jokowi-declared-president
13 Joe Cochrane ldquoEarly Count in Indonesia Favors Largest Op-position Partyrdquo The New York Times April 9 2014 available athttpwwwnytimescom20140410worldasiaIndonesia-electionshtml
14 Anita Rachman and Ben Otto ldquoMegarsquos Message to JokowiIrsquom the Bossrdquo The Wall Street Journal April 11 2015 availableat httpblogswsjcomindonesiarealtime20150411megas-message-to-jokowi-im-the-boss
15 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ldquoIndonesian presi-dential frontrunner Jokowi picks ex-vice president Kallaas running materdquo May 19 2014 available at httpwwwabcnetaunews2014-05-19an-indonesian-presidential-frontrunner-jokowi-picks-kalla-as-ru5462402
16 Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowirsquos Chief of Staff Given Even More Power-ful Rolerdquo Jakarta Globe March 2 2015 available at http jakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowis-chief-staff-given-even-powerful-role
17 Catriona Croft-Cusworth ldquoThe honeymoon is over forJokowirdquo The Sydney Morning Herald July 11 2015 availableat httpwwwsmhcomaunationalthe-honeymoon-is-over-for-jokowi-20150709-gi98ughtml
18 Saiful Muljani Research and Consulting ldquoSMRC TingkatKepuasan Publik terhadap Jokowi Masih MencerminkanSuara PilPres 2014rdquo October 20 2015 available at httpwwwsaifulmujanicomblog20151020smrc-tingkat-kepuasan-publik-terhadap-jokowi-masih-mencerminkan-suara-pilpres-2014
19 Drew DeSilver ldquoWorldrsquos Muslim population morewidespread than you might thinkrdquo Pew Research CenterJune 7 2013 available at httpwwwpewresearchorgfact-tank20130607worlds-muslim-population-more-widespread-than-you-might-think
20 Bagus BT Saragih ldquoRI finds common ASEAN ground in seadisputerdquo The Jakarta Post July 23 2012 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20120723ri-finds-com-mon-asean-ground-sea-disputehtml
21 The Economist ldquoA thousand jilted friendsrdquo May 2 2015 avail-able at httpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21650173-new-president-charts-markedly-different-course-thousand- jilted-friends
22 Erwida Maulia ldquoIndonesiarsquos Foreign Policy Turns DomesticUnder Jokowirdquo Jakarta Globe December 10 2014 availableat httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsindonesias-foreign-policy-turns-domestic-jokowi
23 Prashanth Parameswaran ldquoIs Indonesia Turning Away FromASEAN Under Jokowirdquo The Diplomat December 18 2014available at httpthediplomatcom201412is-indonesia-turning-away-from-asean-under-jokowi
24 President Joko Widodo ldquoFull Speech Jokowi at APEC CEOSummit 2014rdquo Rappler November 10 2014 availableat httpwwwrapplercomworldregionsasia-pacificindonesia74620-full-speech-joko-widodo-apec-summit-beijing
25 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoInvestor-StateDispute Settlement (ISDS)rdquo available at httpsustrgovabout-uspolicy-officespress-officefact-sheets2015marchinvestor-state-dispute-settlement-isds (last accessedOctober 2015)
26 Rendi A Witular ldquoJokowi launches maritime doctrine to theworldrdquo The Jakarta Post November 13 2014 available athttpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141113jokowi-launches-maritime-doctrine-worldhtml
27 The White House ldquoThe US-Indonesia Comprehensive Part-nershiprdquo Press release June 27 2010 available at httpswwwwhitehousegovthe-press-officeus-indonesia-com-prehensive-partnership
28 Rendi A Witular ldquoObamarsquos unlikely question to JokowiHowrsquos Puncakrdquo The Jakarta Post November 11 2014 avail-able at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141111obama-s-unlikely-question-jokowi-how-s-puncakhtml
29 ldquoTimeline US-Indonesia Relationsrdquo Contemporary Southeast Asia A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 32 (3)(2010) 395ndash398 available at httpsmusejhuedujournalscontemporary_southeast_asia_a_journal_of_interna-tional_and_strategic_affairsv032323article01htm USDepartment of State ldquoUnited States-Indonesia Relatio nsrdquoPress release September 3 2012 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201209197277htm
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7 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
30 Robin Bush ldquoAs Host Indonesia Anticipates Obamarsquos FirstEast Asia Summitrdquo The Asia Foundation November 16 2011available at httpasiafoundationorgin-asia20111116as-host-indonesia-anticipates-obamas-first-east-asia-sum-mit
31 US Department of State ldquoUnited States and Indonesia SignSouth-South and Triangular Cooperation Memorandumof Understanding To Support Developing Countriesrdquo Pressrelease February 17 2014 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201402221712htm
32 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoIndonesiardquo availableat httpsustrgovcountries-regionssoutheast-asia-pacificindonesia (last accessed October 2015)
33 Authorrsquos conversations with Indonesian officials during adialogue held at the Center for American Progress Washing-ton DC October 7 2015
34 Ibid
35 Ibid
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5 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
Jokowi visits the White House
Presiden Jokowirsquos visi is se o produce numerous angible resuls racking closely
wih his mission o advance Indonesiarsquos saure as a mariime-cenric power mariime
cooperaion will be a he op o he agenda which will include a new agreemen on
coas guard cooperaion33 Deense indusry cooperaion will also be high on he lis
wih US firms ineresed in benefiing rom a growing deense budge and Indonesiaseeking o develop is own indigenous deense indusry34
Commercial deals may also be concluded which would be an imporan signal ha
recen reorms o he invesmen climae mean ha Indonesia is indeed open or busi-
ness35 I so his would breah new lie ino an economic relaionship ha lags behind
oher pars o he parnership
Wih deliverables nearly finalized Jokowi will now ocus on projecing an image o
himsel as a global leader wih a human ouch he one ha his supporers991252boh
Indonesian and inernaional991252have hoped he could be While ies beween he UniedSaes and Indonesia improved dramaically under Presiden Yudhoyono Presiden
Jokowirsquos personal charisma provides an opporuniy o demonsrae why he Unied
Saes and Indonesia share so much in common While i has been difficul or Jokowi o
mee he expecaions hrus on him by he 71 million Indonesians who voed or him
he represens heir collecive opimism and hope or a beter uure as well as a belie
ha one can rise rom povery o he presidency jus as he did I is hard o imagine a
more naural parner or he Unied Saes
Brian Harding is the Director for East and Southeast Asia for the National Security and
International Policy team at the Center for American Progress
8202019 Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
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6 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
Endnotes
1 The White House ldquoStatement by the Press Secretary on theVisit of President Joko Widodo of Indonesiardquo Press releaseSeptember 21 2015 available at httpjakartausembassygovnewswh_150921enhtml
2 Indonesian Const amend I art 7 available at httpcon-finderrichmondeduadmindocsIndonesia1stpdf (lastaccessed October 2015)
3 Joe Cochrane ldquoIn Southeast Asia Indonesia Is an UnlikelyRole for Democracyrdquo The New York Times September 42014 available at httpwwwnytimescom20140905worldasiain-southeast-asia-indonesia-becomes-a-role-model-for-democracyhtml
4 Ross Tapsell ldquoThe Jokowi Phenomenonrdquo Inside Story January16 2014 available at httpinsidestoryorgauthe-jokowi-phenomenon
5 The Economist ldquoA good scraprdquo January 10 2015 available athttpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21638179-jokowi-abandons-wasteful-fuel-subsidies-fiscal-prospects-bright-en-good-scrap
6 Novy Lumanauw and Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowi Strikes EightNames From Cabinet Line-Up After KPK Red Flagrdquo JakartaGlobe October 22 2014 available at httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowi-strikes-eight-names-cabinet-
line-kpk-red-flag
7 Linda Yulisman ldquoJokowi renews commitment to eastern In-donesiardquo The Jakarta Post May 26 2015 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20150526jokowi-renews-commitment-eastern-indonesiahtml
8 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentldquoOECD Economic Surveys I ndonesiardquo (2015) availableat httpwwwoecdorgecosurveysOverview-Indone-sia-2015pdf
9 The World Bank ldquoIndonesia Economic Quarterly July2015 Slower Gainsrdquo July 8 2015 available at httpwwwworldbankorgennewsfeature20150708indonesia-economic-quarterly-july-2015
10 The World Bank ldquoPicking up the Pace Reviving Growth in In-donesiarsquos Manufacturing Sectorrdquo (2012) available at httpwwwworldbankorgcontentdamWorldbankdocument
Indonesia-ExecSum-Manufacturing-ENGpdf
11 Patturaja Murugaboopathy ldquoRupiah woes Clock ticking forunhedged Indonesian companiesrdquo Reuters May 20 2015available at httpwwwreuterscomarticle20150520in-donesia-markets-rupiah-hedging-idUSL3N0YB2IJ20150520
12 Yenni Kwok ldquoWith the Election of Joko Widodo IndonesiaWrites a New Chapterrdquo Time July 23 2014 available athttptimecom3020999indonesia-joko-widodo-jokowi-declared-president
13 Joe Cochrane ldquoEarly Count in Indonesia Favors Largest Op-position Partyrdquo The New York Times April 9 2014 available athttpwwwnytimescom20140410worldasiaIndonesia-electionshtml
14 Anita Rachman and Ben Otto ldquoMegarsquos Message to JokowiIrsquom the Bossrdquo The Wall Street Journal April 11 2015 availableat httpblogswsjcomindonesiarealtime20150411megas-message-to-jokowi-im-the-boss
15 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ldquoIndonesian presi-dential frontrunner Jokowi picks ex-vice president Kallaas running materdquo May 19 2014 available at httpwwwabcnetaunews2014-05-19an-indonesian-presidential-frontrunner-jokowi-picks-kalla-as-ru5462402
16 Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowirsquos Chief of Staff Given Even More Power-ful Rolerdquo Jakarta Globe March 2 2015 available at http jakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowis-chief-staff-given-even-powerful-role
17 Catriona Croft-Cusworth ldquoThe honeymoon is over forJokowirdquo The Sydney Morning Herald July 11 2015 availableat httpwwwsmhcomaunationalthe-honeymoon-is-over-for-jokowi-20150709-gi98ughtml
18 Saiful Muljani Research and Consulting ldquoSMRC TingkatKepuasan Publik terhadap Jokowi Masih MencerminkanSuara PilPres 2014rdquo October 20 2015 available at httpwwwsaifulmujanicomblog20151020smrc-tingkat-kepuasan-publik-terhadap-jokowi-masih-mencerminkan-suara-pilpres-2014
19 Drew DeSilver ldquoWorldrsquos Muslim population morewidespread than you might thinkrdquo Pew Research CenterJune 7 2013 available at httpwwwpewresearchorgfact-tank20130607worlds-muslim-population-more-widespread-than-you-might-think
20 Bagus BT Saragih ldquoRI finds common ASEAN ground in seadisputerdquo The Jakarta Post July 23 2012 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20120723ri-finds-com-mon-asean-ground-sea-disputehtml
21 The Economist ldquoA thousand jilted friendsrdquo May 2 2015 avail-able at httpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21650173-new-president-charts-markedly-different-course-thousand- jilted-friends
22 Erwida Maulia ldquoIndonesiarsquos Foreign Policy Turns DomesticUnder Jokowirdquo Jakarta Globe December 10 2014 availableat httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsindonesias-foreign-policy-turns-domestic-jokowi
23 Prashanth Parameswaran ldquoIs Indonesia Turning Away FromASEAN Under Jokowirdquo The Diplomat December 18 2014available at httpthediplomatcom201412is-indonesia-turning-away-from-asean-under-jokowi
24 President Joko Widodo ldquoFull Speech Jokowi at APEC CEOSummit 2014rdquo Rappler November 10 2014 availableat httpwwwrapplercomworldregionsasia-pacificindonesia74620-full-speech-joko-widodo-apec-summit-beijing
25 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoInvestor-StateDispute Settlement (ISDS)rdquo available at httpsustrgovabout-uspolicy-officespress-officefact-sheets2015marchinvestor-state-dispute-settlement-isds (last accessedOctober 2015)
26 Rendi A Witular ldquoJokowi launches maritime doctrine to theworldrdquo The Jakarta Post November 13 2014 available athttpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141113jokowi-launches-maritime-doctrine-worldhtml
27 The White House ldquoThe US-Indonesia Comprehensive Part-nershiprdquo Press release June 27 2010 available at httpswwwwhitehousegovthe-press-officeus-indonesia-com-prehensive-partnership
28 Rendi A Witular ldquoObamarsquos unlikely question to JokowiHowrsquos Puncakrdquo The Jakarta Post November 11 2014 avail-able at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141111obama-s-unlikely-question-jokowi-how-s-puncakhtml
29 ldquoTimeline US-Indonesia Relationsrdquo Contemporary Southeast Asia A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 32 (3)(2010) 395ndash398 available at httpsmusejhuedujournalscontemporary_southeast_asia_a_journal_of_interna-tional_and_strategic_affairsv032323article01htm USDepartment of State ldquoUnited States-Indonesia Relatio nsrdquoPress release September 3 2012 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201209197277htm
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7 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
30 Robin Bush ldquoAs Host Indonesia Anticipates Obamarsquos FirstEast Asia Summitrdquo The Asia Foundation November 16 2011available at httpasiafoundationorgin-asia20111116as-host-indonesia-anticipates-obamas-first-east-asia-sum-mit
31 US Department of State ldquoUnited States and Indonesia SignSouth-South and Triangular Cooperation Memorandumof Understanding To Support Developing Countriesrdquo Pressrelease February 17 2014 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201402221712htm
32 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoIndonesiardquo availableat httpsustrgovcountries-regionssoutheast-asia-pacificindonesia (last accessed October 2015)
33 Authorrsquos conversations with Indonesian officials during adialogue held at the Center for American Progress Washing-ton DC October 7 2015
34 Ibid
35 Ibid
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6 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
Endnotes
1 The White House ldquoStatement by the Press Secretary on theVisit of President Joko Widodo of Indonesiardquo Press releaseSeptember 21 2015 available at httpjakartausembassygovnewswh_150921enhtml
2 Indonesian Const amend I art 7 available at httpcon-finderrichmondeduadmindocsIndonesia1stpdf (lastaccessed October 2015)
3 Joe Cochrane ldquoIn Southeast Asia Indonesia Is an UnlikelyRole for Democracyrdquo The New York Times September 42014 available at httpwwwnytimescom20140905worldasiain-southeast-asia-indonesia-becomes-a-role-model-for-democracyhtml
4 Ross Tapsell ldquoThe Jokowi Phenomenonrdquo Inside Story January16 2014 available at httpinsidestoryorgauthe-jokowi-phenomenon
5 The Economist ldquoA good scraprdquo January 10 2015 available athttpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21638179-jokowi-abandons-wasteful-fuel-subsidies-fiscal-prospects-bright-en-good-scrap
6 Novy Lumanauw and Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowi Strikes EightNames From Cabinet Line-Up After KPK Red Flagrdquo JakartaGlobe October 22 2014 available at httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowi-strikes-eight-names-cabinet-
line-kpk-red-flag
7 Linda Yulisman ldquoJokowi renews commitment to eastern In-donesiardquo The Jakarta Post May 26 2015 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20150526jokowi-renews-commitment-eastern-indonesiahtml
8 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentldquoOECD Economic Surveys I ndonesiardquo (2015) availableat httpwwwoecdorgecosurveysOverview-Indone-sia-2015pdf
9 The World Bank ldquoIndonesia Economic Quarterly July2015 Slower Gainsrdquo July 8 2015 available at httpwwwworldbankorgennewsfeature20150708indonesia-economic-quarterly-july-2015
10 The World Bank ldquoPicking up the Pace Reviving Growth in In-donesiarsquos Manufacturing Sectorrdquo (2012) available at httpwwwworldbankorgcontentdamWorldbankdocument
Indonesia-ExecSum-Manufacturing-ENGpdf
11 Patturaja Murugaboopathy ldquoRupiah woes Clock ticking forunhedged Indonesian companiesrdquo Reuters May 20 2015available at httpwwwreuterscomarticle20150520in-donesia-markets-rupiah-hedging-idUSL3N0YB2IJ20150520
12 Yenni Kwok ldquoWith the Election of Joko Widodo IndonesiaWrites a New Chapterrdquo Time July 23 2014 available athttptimecom3020999indonesia-joko-widodo-jokowi-declared-president
13 Joe Cochrane ldquoEarly Count in Indonesia Favors Largest Op-position Partyrdquo The New York Times April 9 2014 available athttpwwwnytimescom20140410worldasiaIndonesia-electionshtml
14 Anita Rachman and Ben Otto ldquoMegarsquos Message to JokowiIrsquom the Bossrdquo The Wall Street Journal April 11 2015 availableat httpblogswsjcomindonesiarealtime20150411megas-message-to-jokowi-im-the-boss
15 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ldquoIndonesian presi-dential frontrunner Jokowi picks ex-vice president Kallaas running materdquo May 19 2014 available at httpwwwabcnetaunews2014-05-19an-indonesian-presidential-frontrunner-jokowi-picks-kalla-as-ru5462402
16 Ezra Sihite ldquoJokowirsquos Chief of Staff Given Even More Power-ful Rolerdquo Jakarta Globe March 2 2015 available at http jakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsjokowis-chief-staff-given-even-powerful-role
17 Catriona Croft-Cusworth ldquoThe honeymoon is over forJokowirdquo The Sydney Morning Herald July 11 2015 availableat httpwwwsmhcomaunationalthe-honeymoon-is-over-for-jokowi-20150709-gi98ughtml
18 Saiful Muljani Research and Consulting ldquoSMRC TingkatKepuasan Publik terhadap Jokowi Masih MencerminkanSuara PilPres 2014rdquo October 20 2015 available at httpwwwsaifulmujanicomblog20151020smrc-tingkat-kepuasan-publik-terhadap-jokowi-masih-mencerminkan-suara-pilpres-2014
19 Drew DeSilver ldquoWorldrsquos Muslim population morewidespread than you might thinkrdquo Pew Research CenterJune 7 2013 available at httpwwwpewresearchorgfact-tank20130607worlds-muslim-population-more-widespread-than-you-might-think
20 Bagus BT Saragih ldquoRI finds common ASEAN ground in seadisputerdquo The Jakarta Post July 23 2012 available at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20120723ri-finds-com-mon-asean-ground-sea-disputehtml
21 The Economist ldquoA thousand jilted friendsrdquo May 2 2015 avail-able at httpwwweconomistcomnewsasia21650173-new-president-charts-markedly-different-course-thousand- jilted-friends
22 Erwida Maulia ldquoIndonesiarsquos Foreign Policy Turns DomesticUnder Jokowirdquo Jakarta Globe December 10 2014 availableat httpjakartaglobeberitasatucomnewsindonesias-foreign-policy-turns-domestic-jokowi
23 Prashanth Parameswaran ldquoIs Indonesia Turning Away FromASEAN Under Jokowirdquo The Diplomat December 18 2014available at httpthediplomatcom201412is-indonesia-turning-away-from-asean-under-jokowi
24 President Joko Widodo ldquoFull Speech Jokowi at APEC CEOSummit 2014rdquo Rappler November 10 2014 availableat httpwwwrapplercomworldregionsasia-pacificindonesia74620-full-speech-joko-widodo-apec-summit-beijing
25 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoInvestor-StateDispute Settlement (ISDS)rdquo available at httpsustrgovabout-uspolicy-officespress-officefact-sheets2015marchinvestor-state-dispute-settlement-isds (last accessedOctober 2015)
26 Rendi A Witular ldquoJokowi launches maritime doctrine to theworldrdquo The Jakarta Post November 13 2014 available athttpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141113jokowi-launches-maritime-doctrine-worldhtml
27 The White House ldquoThe US-Indonesia Comprehensive Part-nershiprdquo Press release June 27 2010 available at httpswwwwhitehousegovthe-press-officeus-indonesia-com-prehensive-partnership
28 Rendi A Witular ldquoObamarsquos unlikely question to JokowiHowrsquos Puncakrdquo The Jakarta Post November 11 2014 avail-able at httpwwwthejakartapostcomnews20141111obama-s-unlikely-question-jokowi-how-s-puncakhtml
29 ldquoTimeline US-Indonesia Relationsrdquo Contemporary Southeast Asia A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs 32 (3)(2010) 395ndash398 available at httpsmusejhuedujournalscontemporary_southeast_asia_a_journal_of_interna-tional_and_strategic_affairsv032323article01htm USDepartment of State ldquoUnited States-Indonesia Relatio nsrdquoPress release September 3 2012 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201209197277htm
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7 Center for American Progress | Jokowirsquos Visit Will Highlight Why Indonesia Is a Natural US Partner
30 Robin Bush ldquoAs Host Indonesia Anticipates Obamarsquos FirstEast Asia Summitrdquo The Asia Foundation November 16 2011available at httpasiafoundationorgin-asia20111116as-host-indonesia-anticipates-obamas-first-east-asia-sum-mit
31 US Department of State ldquoUnited States and Indonesia SignSouth-South and Triangular Cooperation Memorandumof Understanding To Support Developing Countriesrdquo Pressrelease February 17 2014 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201402221712htm
32 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoIndonesiardquo availableat httpsustrgovcountries-regionssoutheast-asia-pacificindonesia (last accessed October 2015)
33 Authorrsquos conversations with Indonesian officials during adialogue held at the Center for American Progress Washing-ton DC October 7 2015
34 Ibid
35 Ibid
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30 Robin Bush ldquoAs Host Indonesia Anticipates Obamarsquos FirstEast Asia Summitrdquo The Asia Foundation November 16 2011available at httpasiafoundationorgin-asia20111116as-host-indonesia-anticipates-obamas-first-east-asia-sum-mit
31 US Department of State ldquoUnited States and Indonesia SignSouth-South and Triangular Cooperation Memorandumof Understanding To Support Developing Countriesrdquo Pressrelease February 17 2014 available at httpwwwstategovrpaprsps201402221712htm
32 Office of the US Trade Representative ldquoIndonesiardquo availableat httpsustrgovcountries-regionssoutheast-asia-pacificindonesia (last accessed October 2015)
33 Authorrsquos conversations with Indonesian officials during adialogue held at the Center for American Progress Washing-ton DC October 7 2015
34 Ibid
35 Ibid