Foreign Policy and Energy Security Issues in Indonesia

This book examines energy security as one of nontraditional issues that are strategic for Indonesia’s foreign policy. It argues that energy has not been considered as a strategic commodity in the foreign policy to support the effectiveness of Indonesia’s diplomacy at the regional and international levels. International and outward looking perspectives have not been much visible both in the policy and political realities. Since foreign policy is a reflection of domestic politics under the influence of international developments, this study focuses its analysis on the domestic and international aspects of the energy security issues.

Athiqah Nur Alami is a researcher at the Research Centre for Politics – the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. She has primary academic interests in foreign policy issues, particularly the case of Indonesia, and reinforces her interest on Gender in International Relations. In 2003, she completed her undergraduate degree in International Relations at the Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. She then pursued her Graduate Studies in International Affairs (GSIA) from 2008–2009 at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Ganewati Wuryandari is a senior researcher and the head of the Research Centre for Regional Resources – the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2SDR-LIPI). Her academic interests are in the fields of international politics, Indonesian foreign policy, Indonesia-Australia relations, Indonesia-Timor Leste relations, and borders. She has published many books and academic papers which relate to her academic interests. She also serves on the editorial boards of various academic political journals. She achieved her undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Social and Political Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, in 1987. She then obtained her M.A. degree in International Relations at the Department of Politics, Monash University, Melbourne, in 1994, and her Ph.D degree in 2006 at the Discipline of Asian Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth. 

RR Emilia Yustiningrum is a researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta, Indonesia. Her research focuses on international politics, foreign policy, humanitarian diplomacy, the politics of disaster, disaster management, community resilience to natural disasters, and climate-related natural disasters. She achieved undergraduate degree on International Relations at the Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia in 2002 with cum laude honour. Then she achieved a M.A. degree in Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA) from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in 2009.

Nanto Sriyanto is a researcher at the Research Centre for Politics – the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. His research interest is in international politics, especially foreign policy and international security. He also focuses on regional security issues, especially on the South China Sea issue and regional institution. Nanto completed his M.A. in International Relations at the University of Queensland. He has published several books on non-traditional security issues in relation to Indonesia’s foreign policy and also serves on the editorial board of some journals including the Jurnal of Indonesian Political Science Association (AIPI).