The main purpose of this study was to analyze how the concept of state sovereignty is experiencing a crisis due to a major natural disaster. By using the illustration of the 2004 Aceh earthquake and tsunami, the concept of state sovereignty has been explored in the abnormal situation arising from
This study explain changes of motivation in Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Indonesia from the one motivated by economic interest to the one motivated by strategic interest in defense and security. This transformation is to some extent in line with the international norms embedded in the giving of aid
Since the early 1990s, heavy state intervention in the extractives sector—or resource nationalism—has become more common in resource-rich lower income countries. This article considers what domestic and global conditions in the political economy of extractives account for the resurgence of resource nationalism in Indonesia despite the risks to foreign investment,
