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INDONESIA’S DEFENCE WHITE PAPER 2015: A BOOST FOR ‘GLOBAL MARITIME FULCRUM’?
The latest version of Indonesia’s Defence White Paper (DWP) was released in end April 2016. By that time, the Indonesian President Jokowi had completed over a year in office. The DWP says that given Indonesia’s geo-strategic location, it…

COMMON PUBLIC GOOD AT SEA: EVOLVING ARCHITECTURE IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION
The concept of ‘Common Public Good(s) at Sea’ has lately gained much traction in the context of maritime safety and security in the Afro-Asian swath of the Indo-Pacific region.i As the centre-of-gravity of world’s economic power shifts…