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Amid dynamic globalization within the
modalities of bilateral and multilateral cooperation, implementation of
Indonesian foreign policy has often shifted from the founding principles, which
risks jeopardizing the country’s national interests.
If the departure from the basics is left unabated, in the long run Indonesia will only see its national interests dampened by the will of foreign countries, especially the major powers.
We need to raise this issue with regards to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s maiden visit to Jakarta recently.
Evidently Indonesia can say “no” in order to manage its own foreign policies and during the bilateral talks between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the visiting Xi. The Chinese president’s entourage included high-ranking officials of the Communist Party of China (CPC), apart from state or government officials.
The three officials in the Chinese delegations are Wang Huning, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, Li Zhanshu, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and Liu He, director of the CPC Central Finance Leading Group Office under Wang Qishan who ranks sixth in the hierarchy of Chinese communist authority.
Xi’s speech at the House of Representatives before leaving for Bali to attend the APEC Summit 2013 was unprecedented. US President Barack Obama during his visit to Indonesia in November 2010 managed to visit the House but did not have an opportunity to speak in front of the Indonesian legislature.
What seemed strange during the speech of President Xi at the House was the fact that it did not involve the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry, raising questions as to who arranged the Chinese President’s protocol.
There are two questions as an afterthought that require clear and appropriate answers before Indonesia can strengthen its comprehensive partnership with China.
First, is Indonesian foreign policy no longer anti-communist, meaning that members of the CPC in the Chinese delegation could participate in such a high level bilateral meeting? Second, what is the purpose of the Chinese delegation by incorporating CPC members in bilateral negotiations with Indonesia?
Those two queries need to be addressed due to their implications to our state affairs. It must be underlined that Provisional People’s Consultative Assembly Decree No. XXV/MPRS/1966 on the banning of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) as an organization and teachings as well as communist/Marxist-Leninist ideology has never been revoked and therefore still stands.
The fact that CPC members took part in the negotiations with Indonesian state and government officials should have broad domestic political impacts, especially with regards to the restoration of human rights of people who were accused of involvement in the aborted coup attempt blamed on the PKI in 1965.
If Indonesia is not an anti-communist country, then it needs to reconstruct its foreign policy that can distinguish the degree of foreign relations in the context of the state that cannot be easily co-opted by various interests at home and abroad. Behind all the hype of President Xi’s visit to Indonesia, it seems we are not ready to build a comprehensive relationship with China.
This is not a trivial issue that President Yudhoyono and President Xi can ignore. Indonesia acknowledges that the People’s Republic of China is a big country but it does not mean the limits of ideological propriety and issues of protocol in each country can be disregarded.
Or perhaps our foreign policy is no longer anti-communist? ●
If the departure from the basics is left unabated, in the long run Indonesia will only see its national interests dampened by the will of foreign countries, especially the major powers.
We need to raise this issue with regards to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s maiden visit to Jakarta recently.
Evidently Indonesia can say “no” in order to manage its own foreign policies and during the bilateral talks between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the visiting Xi. The Chinese president’s entourage included high-ranking officials of the Communist Party of China (CPC), apart from state or government officials.
The three officials in the Chinese delegations are Wang Huning, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, Li Zhanshu, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and Liu He, director of the CPC Central Finance Leading Group Office under Wang Qishan who ranks sixth in the hierarchy of Chinese communist authority.
Xi’s speech at the House of Representatives before leaving for Bali to attend the APEC Summit 2013 was unprecedented. US President Barack Obama during his visit to Indonesia in November 2010 managed to visit the House but did not have an opportunity to speak in front of the Indonesian legislature.
What seemed strange during the speech of President Xi at the House was the fact that it did not involve the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry, raising questions as to who arranged the Chinese President’s protocol.
There are two questions as an afterthought that require clear and appropriate answers before Indonesia can strengthen its comprehensive partnership with China.
First, is Indonesian foreign policy no longer anti-communist, meaning that members of the CPC in the Chinese delegation could participate in such a high level bilateral meeting? Second, what is the purpose of the Chinese delegation by incorporating CPC members in bilateral negotiations with Indonesia?
Those two queries need to be addressed due to their implications to our state affairs. It must be underlined that Provisional People’s Consultative Assembly Decree No. XXV/MPRS/1966 on the banning of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) as an organization and teachings as well as communist/Marxist-Leninist ideology has never been revoked and therefore still stands.
The fact that CPC members took part in the negotiations with Indonesian state and government officials should have broad domestic political impacts, especially with regards to the restoration of human rights of people who were accused of involvement in the aborted coup attempt blamed on the PKI in 1965.
If Indonesia is not an anti-communist country, then it needs to reconstruct its foreign policy that can distinguish the degree of foreign relations in the context of the state that cannot be easily co-opted by various interests at home and abroad. Behind all the hype of President Xi’s visit to Indonesia, it seems we are not ready to build a comprehensive relationship with China.
This is not a trivial issue that President Yudhoyono and President Xi can ignore. Indonesia acknowledges that the People’s Republic of China is a big country but it does not mean the limits of ideological propriety and issues of protocol in each country can be disregarded.
Or perhaps our foreign policy is no longer anti-communist? ●
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