Abstract
This chapter investigates how Indonesia’s maritime initiative, the Global Maritime Fulcrum (GMF) may or may not fit into China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI). It reveals that despite warm rhetoric, apparent complementarities between Indonesia’s GMF and China’s MSRI and the two countries’ economies, and some political reasons for cooperation, Indonesian participation in the scheme is limited. Reasons include the vagueness of the MSRI, the newness of the GMF, and the fact that the goals of the MSRI and GMF are not as synchronized as some believe. A study of the Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway reveals how complicated it can be to bring a joint project online and to fruition. More broadly, the chapter demonstrates the necessity of considering international and domestic variables to analyze the MSRI.
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Negara, S.D., Suryadinata, L. (2019). China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Indonesia. In: Blanchard, JM. (eds) China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Southeast Asia. Palgrave Studies in Asia-Pacific Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9275-8_3
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