This outreach activity is organized collaboratively by the WCP CWTS UGM in Indonesia and ASEAN Nagoya Club (ANC) in Japan to promote Toyota Way (Value, Ethics and Business) among Indonesian MSMEs, and was attended by representatives of big private enterprise in Japan and MSMEs in Indonesia. Topics of my presentation include:
This outreach activity is part of a focused group discussion (FGD) organized by and attended by government officials from the Indonesian Ministry of Trade and other relevant ministries and institutions. Content of my presentation include:
■ RCEP as Mega RTA’s – Key Features/Claims, Opportunities and Challenges, Contexts of ASEAN Plus
One Schemes
– Key Features
– Opportunities and Challenges
– Best Practices and Lessons Learnt (from “ASEAN Plus One” Schemes)
■ State-crafting Economic Diplomacy (ED) – Proposed Approach
This outreach activity is designed as a focused group discussion (FGD) forum attended by scholars, and government officials from the Political Study Center of the Indonesian Science Association. Contents of the presentation cover:
■ Indo-Pacific and ”Economic Statecraft” – Geo-economics Perspective
– Argument to Propose: From “Geo-politics” to “Geo-economics”
– Key Elements in Economic Statecraft (ES)
– From foreign policy, diplomacy to economy at home
■ Statecrafting the Economy – Questioning “National (Economic) Interests”
This outreach activity was designed in a focused group discussion (FGD) format with scholars and government officials at the Economic Research Unit of Indonesian Science Association. Topics presented include:
■ The twin phenomena of global pandemic of Covid-19 and 2020 global recession
– Covid-19 as the trigger for 2020 global recession
– Current state of affairs: 25+ (developed and developing) countries are in recession now
– Projected worst scenario of global economic growth: a global depression?
Pandemi global COVID-19 telah melahirkan kegamangan tata kelola penanganan dihampir semua negara, terlepas dari apapun tingkat kemajuan ekonomi dan teknologi serta karakter politiknya. Sistem manajemen krisis standar kehilangan relevansi, memaksa pemerintah mengambil kebijakan yang cenderung trial and error. Indonesia menghadapi tantangan serupa. Situasi ini diperparah dengan adanya politisasi pandemi dan sikap abai atas science di awal krisis serta kapasitas ekonomi dan sistem pelayanan kesehatan yang terbatas.
Processes of norm localisation play a crucial role in shaping the extent to which global governance norms are institutionalised at national and sub-national levels. This article explores the politics of norm localisation through an empirical investigation of how global norms of “transparency” were localised in sub-national processes of extractive industry governance in Bojonegoro, Indonesia.
Since the early 1990s, heavy state intervention in the extractives sector—or resource nationalism—has become more common in resource-rich lower income countries. This article considers what domestic and global conditions in the political economy of extractives account for the resurgence of resource nationalism in Indonesia despite the risks to foreign investment, including who benefits and how. We examine Indonesia's regulatory reforms and analyse the intersections between global and domestic dynamics that have resulted in Indonesia taking a majority ownership share of Freeport Indonesia.
Voluntary supply chain regulation has proliferated in recent decades in response to concerns about the social and environmental impacts of global production and trade. Yet the capacity of supply chain regulation to influence production practices on the ground has been persistently questioned.