How did Indonesia eliminate China and America? | policy

In the light of the climbing of the conflict between China and the United States of America, Indonesia is a difficult number in this conflict.

Indonesia is located at the southern end of the Southern China Sea, which is the country responsible for resources, with a rapidly growing economy with a value of a dollar billion and a large number of populations, a great price in the geopolitical battle between Washington and Beijing in Asia, with around 17 thousand islands that extend over thousands of kilometers of marine biological passage.

The first data that we can approach are geography, because China is the closest neighbor to Indonesia in this conflict, as well as the existence of a Chinese community influencing Indonesia, so that relations between the two parties represent close and neighborhood relationships.

From there, China achieves the vital importance of Indonesia for this. The title of cooperation between the two parties is now artificial intelligence and renewable energies, because China has provided significant investments, in particular in the development of the exploitation of nickel deposits, because it was a partner in the payment of infrastructure, it therefore established a high gear between Jakarta and Bandung.

Economic interconnection is the power that leads relations between the two parties, because the commercial exchange between them reached $ 139.42 billion, for a period of 11 consecutive years, China was the largest trading partner for Indonesia, but they are rather increasing relations.

From this, for example, in 2023, Indonesia visited more than 790,000 Chinese tourists, exploring volcanoes, carrots and seafood, while in the first half of 2024, it visited around 570,000 tourists, making China one of the most important countries provided to tourism at Indonesia.

Indonesian dependence on China increases.

On the other hand, China has expanded its presence in the electric cars in Indonesia, where it created factories in accordance with sustainable transport solutions.

But on the other side of relationships, trade tensions increase in a number of sectors, such as ceramics and textiles.

Chinese ceramics plunged the Indonesian market at much lower prices than the local price of the product, until the Indonesian Ministry of Commerce is forced to destroy millions of illegal Chinese products, especially since customs definitions ranging between 100% and 200% on certain Indonesian Chinese imports, and that it was feared against the Chinese reaction of the Chinese reaction, and it is to fear against the Chinese reaction to the Chinese reaction Light of the Indian Chinese fabric, and that he believed these procedures.

China has made two important dimensions in the relationship:

• The first dimension is the media, China has expanded its media communication to Indonesia, through forums, such as the China-Indonesian Media forum, the last session of which took place in Beijing in early September 2024.
• The second dimension is the coordination of security, What officials on both sides have thrown the cooperation foundations in 2024, they focused on the fight against terrorism, with the exchange of information and cybersecurity. The Southern China Sea is always a complex and sensitive problem in Indonesian-Chinese relations.

A major development took place in November 2024, during the visit of the Prabu Indonesian President Sobanto in Beijing, when Indonesia and China published a joint declaration committed in development in the contested region of the Southern China Sea, in particular on the Natona Islands.

Relations between the two countries are not new.

Relations with America

Indonesian-American relations began in 1949, and she was 75 years old in 2024, so in Washington, the second dialogue took place on peace, prosperity and security between the two parties. The parties to the dialogue were the center of strategic and international studies in Jakarta and the United States Peace Institute.

Dialogue participants realized that relationships are still largely in depth.

The United States has continued its concrete support for Indonesia in order to strengthen its defensive capacities, as well as in a joint training which has now become multilateral, such as the training and support of “Super Garuda Shield” and the Indonesian Coast Guard.

But the policies of the American president Trump could lead to the burden of regional security of the southern China Sea (free navigation) on Indonesia, which makes it a regional player.

On the other hand, Indonesia has refrained from buying F-15 aircraft and bought 42 Rafale planes in France, while the Indonesian army is based on Russian and Western armaments, and its relations with Chinese weapons are still limited, but that can change if China entered military manufacturing programs with Indonesia.

At the commercial level, the United States exported $ 11 billion to Indonesia in 2023, while Indonesian exports to the American market reached $ 27.9 billion, reflecting the superiority of the trade balance in favor of Jakarta.

However, although the relationship between the two countries has been promoted to the “complete strategic partnership”, this partnership remains more symbolic than being practical, because Indonesia prefers not to align international conflicts.

In the light of this scene, Jakarta seems eager not to anger Beijing, and at the same time try to maintain his relations with the United States, while Washington is sufficient for itself and adopts a purely pragmatic approach in the region.

But the real challenge encountered by the United States is that most countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, prefer to engage in a war, because military conflicts can overthrow the economic achievements obtained by these countries, which Washington has not carried out seriously.