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Environmental Security and Plastic Waste Pollution
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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This research aims to analyse the pollution of plastic waste that poses a threat to environmental security and alternative conflict resolution that can be carried out by various actors. Researchers also tried to address the response of international actors, both countries and international...
Indonesia’s Role towards Myanmar in Assisting to Resolve the Humanitarian Crisis in Rohingya (2014-2018)
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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This research aims to analyse the forms of role carried out by Indonesia during the Joko Widodo administration in assisting to resolve the humanitarian crisis in Rohingya. To analyse this, researchers firstly explore the elements that formed the role of Indonesia by tracing the national role...
Securitisation of Halal Issue in Southeast Asia Region
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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Halal now becomes the new emerging trend in the global world. It can be reflected by the Securitisation act of halal issues that has been done by many countries, both the majority-muslim and also the minority-muslim countries. This article discusses about Securitisation of halal...
Is Malaysia Begged to Differ from the Global ‘Vista’ Democracy?
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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In the Malaysia’s 2018 General Election, the supremacy of Barisan Nasional (National Front), started to deteriorate when the two-third usual majority suddenly successfully is being denied. However, the transformations in Malaysian’s socio-political culture have created some evolutions and repercussions...
Indonesia Military Power under the Increasing Threat of Conflict in the South China Sea
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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In the international maritime system, the South China Sea (SCS) region holds economic, political, and strategic values. However, it is also the source of longstanding disputes among the countries within the region. For Indonesia, potential conflicts in the SCS might arise not only from China’s...
In Refer to Societal Security Dealing with the Radicalisation in West Java, Indonesia
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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This research aims to examine how to deal with radicalisation in West Java, Indonesia. To achieve this goal, researchers focused on the efforts of the national institutions in dealing with radicalisation, for instance through educational institutions such as universities and boarding...
Digital Trace and Critical Discourse Networking under Jokowi Government (2014-2018)
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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Digital media is one of the pillars of democracy. The media serves various expressions that support the government or criticize the government. Both are present along with the development of democracy and the rapid progress of digital media. This paper intends to explain the digital trace of...
Comparison of Indonesian Military Strength with Southeast Asian Countries and Probability for an Open War
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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The security conditions in Southeast Asian region are relatively safe and peace. There have never been direct confrontations or head-to-head wars between countries in the region, if ever there had been a confrontation between Indonesia and Malaysia, but that did not happen. During the cold...
Festive and Viral
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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One of the most significant phenomena is the emergence of political identity that moves participation further from the conventional political platform. The Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring are suitable examples for postmodern politics which characterize by unstructured movement...
Indonesian Presidential Election 2019
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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This article aims to explain the ideal construct of Indonesia democracy after the 2019 presidential election which is colored by the conflict of two blocks known as cebong vs kampret. This shows that democracy cannot be separated from conflict. However, despite the ongoing conflict, is it possible...
The Influence of Public Debate on the Political Preference of Communities in the Presidential Election in 2019
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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Public debate is one form of political campaigning carried out at the campaign stage in the presidential and vice presidential elections in 2019 with the aim of influencing the political preference of the people. Besides being able to influence people's political preference, public debate (political...
Sectarian Narratives of the 2019 Presidential Election and the Radical Transnational Network
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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The 8th presidential election in Indonesia occurring in 2019 was heavily peppered with religious narratives and the mobilisation of sectarians. As a result, as found in several observation reports, the demographic analysis of each candidate's vote revealed a sectarian split where Joko Widodo’s...
Civil Servant Neutrality on 2019 General Election in Indonesia
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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Theoretically, bureaucracy should be neutral from political affairs. This neutrality should be implemented by current regime. In fact, ASN (civil servant) is prohibited to get involved in political activity such as attending political campaign and activity (including non-campaign activity such...
Beyond the Binary Logic of Populist Articulations in 2019 Indonesian Election
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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This study seeks to highlight the emergence of Sexy Killer documentary as an important tool in an effort to encourage the rearticulation of democracy in a more substantial direction. This study is important in the middle of the trend of re-Democratisation that is taking place but is moving...
Quo Vadis Islamic Populism? An Electoral Strategy
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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This paper discusses how far Islamic populism as an old social movement, especially in Indonesia, rises as a new form of polarisation in the electoral mechanism in Indonesian democracy nowadays. Considered as the main group of religion in Indonesia, Indonesian Muslims appear as a contested...
The Effectiveness of Political Identity in Post 212 Movement
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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The 2019 election did not escape from a variety of cases and issues, whether this is entirely affected or not at all. Elections are also an arena of competition that does not escape cheating, which can hurt the ongoing campaign period until the election. But most of the issues contained in...
Jeje’s Political Capital in the Regent Election of Pangandaran Regency in 2015
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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Political capital is one of the main capitals to be able to follow the political contestation. This political capital was one of the factors that determined the passing of Jeje as regent candidates who following the local political contestation, which eventually became the winner of the political...
Woman Leader Victory as the Single Candidate in the Elections in District of Lebak Banten Indonesia in 2018
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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One of the provinces that contributes to the emergence of women leadership in Indonesia is Banten. Until recently, there are four municipal regions which are chair-headed by female mayors out of the eight regions in Banten Province including Lebak regency. Particularly, Lebak has already conducted...
The Role of Bawaslu Supervision in Handling Disputes Election Results in Indonesia
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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Elections are an implementation of orderly structured and organized democratic practices. Supervision of elections is needed to ensure that elections run democratically, therefore there is a need for well-organized and competent election oversight bodies. The emergence of violations in the...
Extending Aliran Politics in Electoral Contest
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 4
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Aliran politics is an analytical framework that considered too simplistic and less accurately classifying the political axes of Indonesian socio-political structure. This article, however, shows that aliran still prevails in the form of politicization of identity that reflected in the post...
Russia, the Arctic and Northeast Asia: The Strategic Importance of the Far North
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 3
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Historically, the Arctic has been much more important to Russia than to other Arctic countries. In Soviet times, the development of the Arctic was of paramount importance and it was used by the Soviet government to legitimise its great power status to domestic and international audiences. It...
The United States’ China Containment Strategy and the South China Sea Dispute
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 3
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The common contention regarding the South China Sea is that its characteristic assets are the central or even the sole explanation for the debate. However, it is the argument of this study that this view is distorted and perilously deceptive. This study argues that there are multiple explanations...
Evidentiary Thresholds for Unilateral Aggression: Douma, Skripal and Media Analysis of Chemical Weapon Attacks as a Casus Belli
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 3
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The initiation of military or economic punishment generally on states requires significant justification, lest it be judged an act of aggression. In 2018 two separate incidents invoked similar rationales for such acts of reprisal, specifically that they were responding to attacks using chemical...
Hydro-Politics and the Dynamics of the Shifting Ethio-Egyptian Hydropolitical Relations
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 3
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The foremost intent of this article is to investigate the major dynamics that are changing in Ethio-Egyptian hydropolitical relations. To attain this objective the researcher employed case study design, primary and secondary sources of data, and purposive sampling techniques. Despite the fact...
Unregulated Migration and Nigeria-EU Relations
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 3
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This article presents the social and political causes of Nigeria-EU migration issues concerning unregulated migration that has been affecting the EU. This was done through qualitative and quantitative methodology, which includes interviews, data gathering and documentary analysis. From the...
Trends in Investment Treaty Making: Finding Balance between National Sovereignty and Investment Protection
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 3
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The debate over the prevalence of nation states as the main actors in the international arena has been going on for the past 40 years. This article focuses on a single aspect of the debate, namely the national sovereignty of states within the neoliberal investment regimes. The argument...
From Negative to Positive Peace in Western Balkans: A Case for Eclectic Theory
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 3
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This article analyses a qualitative transformation of relations between the Balkan states since the dissolution of the SFR Yugoslavia in the 90´s until 2008. It argues that military presence and interventions of external powers were enough to make the belligerents fold weapons and...
The Democratization Potential of the Middle Class in Russia
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 3
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The paper on the case study of the contemporary regime in Russia questions the classical theory of the positive influence of middle classes on democratization processes. The author introduces arguments for the following three hypotheses. (1) An essential part of the middle class in Russia is...
Borderlines, Natural Resources and Conflicts: Towards a Territorial Materialism of Boundary Disputes in East Africa
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 2
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This article seeks to examine the phenomenon of boundary disputes in East Africa. By way of a case-study approach, guided by the theory of territorial materialism, the study posits that the ‘colonial causation’ narrative, exemplified in the ethnic partitioning/disintegration hypothesis, does...
Regionalism in World Politics: Interrogating the Relevance of the Economic Community of West African States in Global Political Economy
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2019 - Volume 13, Issue 2
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Globalisation has promoted the connections among sovereign states in the international political economy. Despite the preponderance of neo-protectionist tendencies in the United States and some European countries, the import of regionalism in global political economy has not waned. While economic...