tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:56:02 +0000HAPPY IS THE MAN THAT FINDETH WISDOM,AND THE MAN GETTETH UNDERSTANDING.http://perrypada.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)Blogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-8539976449375969001Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:16:00 +00002010-08-31T06:00:41.447-07:00Author: Carlyle A. Thayer, UNSW@ADFAIf China has made the running in Southeast Asia on the basis of soft power over the last decade, the tide now seems to be turning and the United States is re-engaging with smart power. The United States has signed the ASEAN Treaty of Amity and Cooperation; President Obama has attended the first ASEAN-United States leadership summit (and will host the second http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2010/08/east-asia-forum-has-posted-new-item.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-2560368276577441432Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:14:00 +00002010-08-31T05:15:37.993-07:00August 28th, 2010Author: Joel Rathus, Adelaide University and Meiji UniversityIn November of last year, President Barack Obama pledged that he would be a ‘Pacific president.’ While the audience in Suntory Hall may have wondered about what exactly that statement meant, few in attendance doubted the sincerity or conviction of the president. As relationships between the US, ASEAN and China have beenhttp://perrypada.blogspot.com/2010/08/us-asean-and-china-emergence-of-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-1006727576050327180Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:20:00 +00002010-08-29T06:33:17.631-07:00By AUBREY BELFORD, NY TIMES 05 AUGUST 2010JAKARTA — After years of being known for inefficiency, corruption and instability, Indonesia is emerging from the global financial crisis with a surprising new reputation — economic golden child. The country’s economy, the largest in Southeast Asia, grew at an annual rate of 6.2 percent in the second quarter of this year, data released Thursday showed. http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2010/08/after-years-of-inefficiency-indonesia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-1898554562412713898Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:21:00 +00002010-08-28T04:36:15.289-07:00By Robert M Cutler/Asia Times /August 27,2010.MONTREAL - Jakarta's principal stock market index has more than doubled since President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won the July 2009 presidential elections with a margin that made a run-off unnecessary.Yudhoyono's comfortable victory came three months after his Democratic Party coalition won 314 of the 560 seats up for election to the People's http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2010/08/indonesia-to-keep-shining.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-3602545498900886270Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:01:00 +00002010-08-22T04:04:17.603-07:00by Makmur Keliat, Jakarta | Sun, 08/22/2010 12:29 PM | Opinion The Jakarta PostIn some way, diplomacy could be analogous to someone who wants to travel from one place to another. In order to reach their destination at the right time and to make the journey comfortable, it is necessary to have a road map. This metaphor may be useful to get a broader picture of the diplomatic road that has been http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2010/08/time-for-china-to-spend-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-5437267154094825612Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:04:00 +00002010-08-19T18:12:23.649-07:00Author: Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Kyoto UniversityThe visit by United States President Barack Obama to Indonesia later in 2010 will undoubtedly put Indonesia in the limelight. Obama’s visit is seen by many as recognition of Indonesia’s international standing as the largest country in Southeast Asia, the largest Muslim majority nation, the world’s third largest democracy, and one of the world’s 20 http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2010/08/indonesia-region-and-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-3825937346337298957Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:29:00 +00002010-01-31T05:41:19.923-07:00Fabio Scarpello | Bio | 27 Jan 2010World Politics Review DENPASAR, Indonesia -- Under the leadership of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, U.S.-Indonesia ties have progressively strengthened since he first took office in 2004. Yudhoyono earned a masters degree in the U.S. and has never hidden his liking for the States. So it came as no surprise when, in November 2008, the former http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2010/01/us-indonesia-comprehensive-partnership.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-4315300253207572114Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:31:00 +00002009-12-30T18:32:52.197-07:00Author: Larry Diamond, StanfordSince the mid 1990s, the proportion of countries in the world that are democracies – countries that meet the standard of at least electoral democracies in the sense that they can choose their leaders and replace them in free and fair elections – has stagnated, at around 60 and 62.5 per cent.The world is experiencing a democratic recession. There are three dimensionshttp://perrypada.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-is-indonesias-democracy-doing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-3009813541601021847Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:20:00 +00002009-12-30T18:21:51.752-07:00Author: Hal Hill and Chris Manning, ANUPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (universally known as SBY) announced the cabinet for his second five-year term shortly after his inauguration on October 20. Its composition and quality provide one of the best indications of the president’s policy priorities, as well as his political strategy.SBY’s Democrat Party emerged as the major, though minority, http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2009/12/indonesias-new-cabinet-boost-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-1704186520210627628Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:11:00 +00002009-12-30T18:13:07.681-07:00December 6th, 2009Authors: Hadi Soesastro (CSIS, Jakarta) and Peter Drysdale (ANU, Canberra)The idea that regional architecture in Asia and the Pacific is not up to the tasks it now needs to serve has been around for some time. It has been inspired in part by worries about the untidiness in the competing structures — across the Pacific, of APEC, and within East Asia, of ASEAN +3 and the East Asiahttp://perrypada.blogspot.com/2009/12/thinking-about-asia-pacific-community.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-7328381407103750739Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:52:00 +00002009-12-30T18:15:03.475-07:00JAKARTA, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian former president Abdurrahman Wahid passed away at the age of 69 in the country's landmark hospital Cipto Mangunkusumo (RSCM) on Wednesday, due to complications of stroke, kidney and heart problems. Wahid was born on Sept. 7, 1940 in Jombang, East Java, as the eldest child among six siblings. His grandfather is Hasyim Asy'ari, co-founder of Nahdlatul http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2009/12/backgrounder-indonesian-former.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-2633036077557999792Tue, 19 May 2009 22:51:00 +00002009-05-19T15:52:51.738-07:00Guest Author: Donald K. Emmerson, Southeast Asia Forum, Stanford UniversityJakarta, Indonesia—‘When will he come?’ Again and again in this city I have been asked when US President Barack Hussein will visit Indonesia. I cannot remember a time, since my first trip here in 1967, when Indonesians have looked forward more eagerly to hosting an American president. No ShoesHillary Clinton’s visit in http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2009/05/indonesias-obama-washingtons-indonesia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-1001663230324925947Tue, 19 May 2009 22:37:00 +00002009-05-19T15:42:00.113-07:00Guest Author: Ann Marie Murphy, Whitehead School of DiplomacyHillary Clinton deserves credit for making Indonesia the second country she visited as Secretary of State. Indonesia may be the world’s fourth most populous country, third largest democracy, and home to the world’s largest community of Muslims, but it is also the most important country Americans know virtually nothing about. Clinton’s http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2009/05/us-gives-long-overdue-nod-to-indonesia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-584008031040059957Tue, 19 May 2009 22:29:00 +00002009-05-19T15:43:53.862-07:00May 15th, 2009Author: Chris Manning, Indonesia Project, ANUIt’s all but official, yet still a surprise. Economic analyst, manager and academic, Dr Boediono, the current Central Bank Governor, has been named as President Yudhoyono’s choice of running mate for the first round of Presidential elections in July. Some nine political parties have been jostling for influence in Indonesia’s emerging http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2009/05/surprise-choice-dr-boediono-is-selected.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-7876021805596331317Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:42:00 +00002008-06-21T16:46:58.208-07:00By George Friedman - www.stratfor.com , June 17, 2008The creation of a European state was severely wounded if not killed last week. The Irish voted against a proposed European Union treaty that included creation of a full-time president, increased power to pursue a European foreign policy and increased power for Europe’s parliament. Since the European constitutional process depends on unanimous http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2008/06/problem-with-europe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-5997812441300990063Thu, 08 May 2008 08:25:00 +00002008-05-08T01:26:53.774-07:00The Jakartapost, Fri, 04/18/2008 10:05 AM | OpinionHere is an important announcement. Indonesia has officially stopped being the tolerant nation it has always proclaimed to be, especially when it comes to religion. The country with the world's largest Muslim population, one that has long prided itself for its diversity and peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths, is no longer a http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2008/05/editorial-religious-persecution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-1838965952298557732Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:14:00 +00002008-04-04T12:16:44.573-07:00By Bantarto Bandoro , Jakarta Post | Wed, 04/02/2008 1:56 AM | OpinionA meeting of Indonesia's foreign envoys is scheduled to be held here today (Wednesday) to appraise Indonesia's diplomatic performance and adjust foreign policies to match the latest global developments. The meeting takes place amid expectations that the next vice foreign minister will be named during the meeting, http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2008/04/reassessing-indonesias-foreign-policy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-1577027726373907119Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:05:00 +00002008-03-12T02:18:48.823-07:00March 11, 2008 | 1852 GMTBy Rodger Baker - www.stratfor.comOver the last few decades, China, Japan and South Korea have dabbled on the international stage mainly via “soft” tools such as cultural and economic exchanges. But as the global trading system has evolved — along with the East Asian trio’s stature within that system — the three countries’ hunger for resources and markets has grown to an http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2008/03/asias-security-role-goes-global.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-1117782376080048540Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:15:00 +00002008-03-05T01:33:24.070-07:00Jakarta wants weapons. Lots of them.Frida Berrigan | February 27, 2008Editor: John FefferForeign Policy In Focus www.fpif.orgRight after Valentine’s Day, Indonesian Air Force officials met with their U.S. counterparts to discuss “bilateral defense cooperation.” On their wish list were Lockheed Martin’s F-16 fighters and C-130 Hercules tactical transport planes. There will be more defense talks http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2008/03/indonesias-arms-appetite.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-2508637673409908923Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:47:00 +00002008-02-20T17:52:21.602-07:00February 20, 2008By George Friedman - www.stratfor.com.Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Sunday. The United States and many, but not all, European countries recognized it. The Serbian government did not impose an economic blockade on — or take any military action against — Kosovo, although it declared the Albanian leadership of Kosovo traitors to Serbia. The Russians vehemently repeatedhttp://perrypada.blogspot.com/2008/02/kosovo-independence-and-russian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-1132653478095277838Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:51:00 +00002008-01-17T03:54:54.316-07:00By The Jakarta Post, JakartaIndonesia and China have agreed to work together on military training and military vehicle production, a move in line with the two countries' 2007 agreement on defense cooperation.After welcoming Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan on Wednesday, Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono told reporters both countries would conduct joint military training and exercises for http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2008/01/indonesia-china-to-resume-defense-ties.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-8706466728655147922Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:28:00 +00002007-11-14T14:08:53.627-07:00www.chinaview.cn 2007-11-10 14:54:41 JAKARTA, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's success in ending conflicts and creating peace has led Harvard University to propose using this country as a laboratory for its study into peace processes, local press said Saturday. The Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research plans to work with Paramadina University (UPM) in Jakartato http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2007/11/indonesia-to-be-harvard-lab-for-peace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-8699242279898805578Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:32:00 +00002007-11-14T06:38:44.012-07:00By Richard TanterThe question of whether or not Australia should acquire or develop nuclear weapons has been off the policy agenda for many years. From the 1950s onward the Democratic Labor Party argued the case publicly, though to no great policy effect. Yet, as a number of detailed studies by historians and comparative analysts of nuclear proliferation pathways have clearly established, http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2007/11/re-emergence-of-australian-nuclear.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-2016857274220860211Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:57:00 +00002007-10-22T06:58:55.437-07:00Tarique NiaziMany observers have recently argued that the newly forged Indo-U.S. alliance will work against its “intended aims of Chinese encirclement.” [1] Although India denies its part in any attempt at “Chinese containment” to the publicly acknowledged satisfaction of China, [2] the theory nevertheless persists. China’s response to the Indo-U.S. alliance is, however, quite creative. Instead http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2007/10/turnaround-in-sino-indian-relations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23960594.post-7844154425668297143Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:02:00 +00002007-09-17T14:05:37.496-07:00By David HollisterIndonesia is one of the most hazard prone countries in the world. In the last decade it has experienced a continuous onslaught of disasters. The resulting loss of life, damage to Indonesia's towns and cities, infrastructure and setbacks to its economic growth have become a normal part of daily news resulting in a national reassessment of the root causes of these disasters. Some,http://perrypada.blogspot.com/2007/09/indonesian-government-moves-to-reduce.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Perry PADA)0