Indonesia’s Strategic Maneuver: How Prabowo Subianto Is Shaping a Multi-Vector Foreign Policy Amid a Global Crisis

... Moscow visit appears to be part of a broader and highly ambitious diplomatic maneuver that can be described as bebas-aktif-maxxing —the maximal realization of the principle of an “independent and active” foreign policy originally articulated by Indonesia’s founding figures, Sukarno and Hatta. Within the emerging diplomatic configuration, Russia is assigned an important role as a major power and a strategic partner with which the Prabowo administration intends to develop multifaceted cooperation—from ...