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The military presence along the borders is not only to prevent the war from entering Indonesian territory, it is also to secure the borders and help the refugees that started to seek protection by entering Indonesian controlled territories.

Would Indonesia allow Filipino refugees in Indonesia territory that's good gesture but the Philippines is just 3 or one hour boat ride so its unlikely but thanks Indonesia is the only true ASEAN friend of the Philippines the rest are running dogs to the chinese or business partners personally am having doubts about ASEAN integration would it work in this level of political, territorial questions and other things
 
Would Indonesia allow Filipino refugees in Indonesia territory that's good gesture but the Philippines is just 3 or one hour boat ride so its unlikely but thanks Indonesia is the only true ASEAN friend of the Philippines the rest are running dogs to the chinese or business partners personally am having doubts about ASEAN integration would it work in this level of political, territorial questions and other things

The main priority is to save Indonesians in Sabah, there are numerous Indonesians in Sabah and they are starting to flow Indonesian borders. Of course Filipino refugees will also be protected if they run to Indonesian territories, every refugee will be taken care of.

Good, best luck for Filipino refugees then.
 
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East Borneo, Indonesia - A ground crew fitting missiles to missile pod (East Borneo is a neighboring province to the Malaysian state of Sabah)
 
Would Indonesia allow Filipino refugees in Indonesia territory that's good gesture but the Philippines is just 3 or one hour boat ride so its unlikely but thanks Indonesia is the only true ASEAN friend of the Philippines the rest are running dogs to the chinese or business partners personally am having doubts about ASEAN integration would it work in this level of political, territorial questions and other things
You talked of bullsh...Don´t try to insult others!

Vietnam supports and cooperates with Philippines more than any other nations in ASEAN. Disputes exist since ages and not today. However they do not hinder further integration among member states. As long as anyone respects and treats others nicely, based on international laws. Aggression, intimidation, invasion or terrorism is the WRONG way.

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Minister of Defense Industry Welcomes Cooperation Deals With Wallenberg Family


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Jakarta, DMC - Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Monday (11/3), received a courtesy call Investor Swedish delegation led by the Wallenberg Family Group accompanied by Swedish Ambassador to Indonesia HE Ewa Ulrika Polano at the Ministry of Defence, Jakarta. His arrival with the Defence Minister this time is part of a series of delegation met with state officials to learn more about Indonesia and specifically to meet Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro to learn more about the development plans of the domestic defense equipment industry and defense equipment procurement plan.

Minister welcomed the offer of cooperation from the Wallenberg Family and will seek a meeting with the TNI Headquarters and Headquarters Army as the weapons systems users, the possibilities of procuring defense equipment and defense industry cooperation expected by the user. But Defence Minister will also seek a meeting with the Director General of Strahan about the possibility of long-term development of defense equipment needs to cooperate with the defense industry owned by the Wallenberg Family.

Wallenberg Family hopes to establish a defense industry cooperation and technology transfer of some military equipment either G to G or directly with Indonesian Defense Industry or the Ministry of Defence. Wallenberg Family with whom defense equipment industry; fighter aircraft, submarines, radar, missiles and others hope to build a defense industry cooperation for the long term.

While receiving the delegation Wallenberg Family, Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro Means accompanied by the Head of Defence Rear Admiral TNI Kemhan Ir Rachmad Lubis, Economic Advisor to Defence Minister Dr Ir Eddy Herjanto SE, MSc, Director of Engineering and Industry DG Pothan Kemhan military Marsma Darlis Pangaribuan MSc and Head Brigadier General Public Communication Kemhan Sisriadi.
 
You talked of bullsh...Don´t try to insult others!

Vietnam supports and cooperates with Philippines more than any other nations in ASEAN. Disputes exist since ages and not today. However they do not hinder further integration among member states. As long as anyone respects and treats others nicely, based on international laws. Aggression, intimidation, invasion or terrorism is the WRONG way.

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I never said anything about Vietnam i was talking about Cambodia they been receiving huge Chinese aid
 
I never said anything about Vietnam i was talking about Cambodia they been receiving huge Chinese aid
I misunderstood you, sorry.
As for Cambodia, don´t worry, we in Vietnam will find ways to counter Chinese influence. Cambodia is closer to VN than CN, and it knows what that means.
 
Indonesia in Asia’s Changing Balance of Power
By Ann Marie Murphy, on 11 Mar 2013, Briefing

Southeast Asia’s largest state and the de facto leader of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesia has long served as a linchpin of regional order. More recently, Jakarta’s status has risen even higher as concern over China leads countries such as the U.S., Japan, South Korea and Australia to strengthen ties with Indonesia. Yet China’s attempts to stake its own claims to regional leadership pose a direct challenge to Indonesia, while China’s development of a blue-water navy and its claims to virtually the entire South China Sea directly threaten Indonesian interests. As a result, Indonesia has found it increasingly difficult to play its traditional mediating role within ASEAN.

Indonesia’s key interests in Southeast Asia are to promote stability and ensure that the region retains its autonomy from great power influence. In the broader Asia-Pacific, Indonesia seeks what Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa calls a “dynamic equilibrium” in which “there is not one preponderant country.” Indonesia has historically used ASEAN as a tool to pursue these goals, and Jakarta’s purported ability to lead ASEAN is an important source of its international influence. Accordingly, Indonesia has a major interest in ensuring that regional architecture is built upon ASEAN, thereby giving its members agenda-setting influence and helping prevent their domination by larger powers.

As an archipelagic state sitting astride vital sea lines of communication connecting the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Indonesia prioritizes protecting the sovereignty of its waters. As a nation of 17,000 islands that lacks the military capacity to protect itself, Indonesia has a strong interest in ensuring that major naval powers abide by the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Thus, China’s naval advances and its designation of its South China Sea territorial claims as a “core” interest directly threaten Indonesia.

The South China Sea disputes, in particular, encapsulate the challenges Jakarta faces. While Indonesia has responded to China’s maritime provocations by raising them in ASEAN and ASEAN-centered regional organizations, Jakarta realizes that U.S. participation in these mechanisms is a prerequisite for responding to China by multilateral diplomatic balancing. Indonesia has therefore welcomed the Obama administration’s attention to Southeast Asia and its renewed engagement with ASEAN and the East Asia Summit, even as it is aware that the shift is driven largely by U.S. concerns over China. Sino-American rivalry therefore enhances ASEAN’s regional status but risks turning ASEAN into a forum for Sino-American competition, something Indonesia wants to avoid.

Beginning in 2010, however, when then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the ASEAN meetings to state that the U.S. had a “national interest in freedom of navigation, open access to Asia’s maritime commons, and respect for international law in the South China Sea,” confrontation over the maritime disputes has become an increasingly central component of the group’s meetings.

As the 2011 ASEAN chair, Indonesia made it a key goal to produce guidelines to transform ASEAN’s nonbinding 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea into a legally binding code of conduct. Because Indonesia is not party to any territorial disputes in the South China Sea, Jakarta has traditionally tried to position itself as an independent mediator. Nevertheless, China does claim waters in Indonesia’s Natuna Island exclusive economic zone, an area rich in carbon resources, and Jakarta’s calls for resolution of the dispute according to UNCLOS clearly conflict with China’s positions. In July 2011, ASEAN and China did agree on a set of guidelines for the declaration on conduct, but they studiously avoid the issue of sovereignty. Hopes that the guidelines would include concrete proposals to reduce the potential for clashes, such as advance notification of military exercises and rules of conduct for parties on the high seas, were disappointed.

In pursuing a diplomatic resolution of the disputes, Indonesia must also seek to balance the interests of its fellow ASEAN members. Vietnam and the Philippines, which have borne the brunt of recent Chinese naval assertiveness, have called for greater ASEAN backing and also sought outside support, particularly from the U.S. The heightened tensions over the issue, both among ASEAN members and between the U.S. and China, underscore the challenges Indonesia faces in maintaining ASEAN cohesion while balancing the interests of China and the U.S.

These challenges are further heightened when the rotating ASEAN chair is closely linked to China, as it was in 2012. Cambodia, which held the rotating chair at the time, failed to include the South China Sea dispute on its list of key agenda items, in contrast to the 2010 and 2011 chairs, while also proposing that China be included in the drafting of procedures to implement the declaration on conduct. This led to open discord at the July 2012 ASEAN meeting, which failed to issue a joint statement for the first time in 45 years. As ASEAN’s centrality in regional architecture depends on its cohesion, any threat to the latter is a threat to a key aspect of Indonesia’s regional leadership.

Recognizing this, Natalegawa embarked on a round of shuttle diplomacy to ASEAN capitals to secure agreement on a six-point approach to the South China Sea disputes that was issued in place of the final statement. Natalegawa’s diplomatic efforts have papered over ASEAN’s differences but not resolved them. Moreover, ASEAN’s agreement to these principles does not appear to have induced greater Chinese concern for ASEAN’s position.

Clearly, for Jakarta, maintaining Indonesia’s traditional position as a mediator balancing the interests of great powers and its ASEAN partners has become more challenging. As a result, some analysts have argued that ASEAN-led multilateral processes, based as they are on soft power, are not sufficient to sustain regional order.

China’s rise has upset the regional balance of power, with Indonesia’s goal of a “dynamic equilibrium” now depending in part on the U.S. Indonesia welcomes the renewed U.S. interest in Southeast Asia but fears that the “Asia pivot” may escalate tensions unnecessarily. That, in turn, could undermine Indonesia’s ability to help shape relations among Asia’s great powers and its ASEAN partners to promote its goals of regional peace and stability.

Ann Marie Murphy is associate professor, Seton Hall University; adjunct research scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; and associate fellow, the Asia Society.

WPR Article | Indonesia in Asia
 
First Flight Inauguration of Indonesia's KAI T50i (I stands for Indonesia's Upgraded Version of T50 Golden Eagle)


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Indonesia in Asia’s Changing Balance of Power
By Ann Marie Murphy, on 11 Mar 2013, Briefing

.... The heightened tensions over the issue, both among ASEAN members and between the U.S. and China, underscore the challenges Indonesia faces in maintaining ASEAN cohesion while balancing the interests of China and the U.S.
Actually Indonesia itself must answer the question what role it seeks in the region? What is its position in the world?
As for ASEAN, at present it does not require a leader who goes ahead and leads the bloc. Its leadership rotates among the member states, and all decisions are based on consensus. All nations are independent entities.

No question, Indonesia, with the largest population and GDP, has important weight. It is only up to your politicians and elites if they are ready to do what you have in mind.
 
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