Papers by Hendra Manurung
Journal International Studies
Journal International Studies
Reelection of Shinzo Abe as Prime Minister provides a favorable climate for both Donald Trump’s f... more Reelection of Shinzo Abe as Prime Minister provides a favorable climate for both Donald Trump’s first presidential visit to Japan and an improvement of Chinese-Japanese-U.S. bilateral relations. In the 22 October 2017 ballot, Abe’s dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner Komeito, secured a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives, the lower house of Japan’s bicameral legislature. The coalition already holds a supermajority, required for amending the constitution, in the upper house. It justified Abe for calling the national elections a year earlier than needed to secure a public mandate for addressing the growing North Korean threat and to validate popular support for deepening national economic reforms, which have had recent success in boosting Japan’s growth rate and the stock market. Still the outcome gave Abe a mandate for his policies. However, his stewardship was unclear as several other factors contributed to LDP’s overwhelming victory. At the structural level, Japan’s first past the post-electoral system tends to amplify electoral wins in comparison to proportional representation systems. Abe’s foreign and security policies highly charged with ideological revisionism contain the potential to shift Japan onto a new international trajectory in East Asia. Its degree of articulation and energy makes for a doctrine capable of displacing the Yoshida Doctrine that has been Japan’s dominant grand strategy in the post-war period. Abe will remain pragmatic and not challenge the status quo. However, Abe has already begun to introduce radical policies that appear to transform national security, US-Japan alliance ties and relations with China and East Asia. The Abe Doctrine is dynamic but high risk. Abe’s revisionism contains fundamental contradictions that may ultimately limit national effectiveness.
Jurnal Asia Pacific Studies
This study aims to elaborate potential effects of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement ... more This study aims to elaborate potential effects of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on the trading of goods and services between the European Union (EU) and Indonesia addressing issues considered to be impeding the conclusion of CEPA negotiations. Suppose the agreement between the EU and Indonesia improve economic relations while creating benefits for both. Indonesia and the EU began negotiation on the CEPA preparation in 2012. The CEPA has been presented as having the ability to help both parties take full advantage of unexploited economic relations. The CEPA is expected to be a comprehensive agreement discussing various aspects of economic relations and moved beyond being a simple agreement for removing trade barriers. The liberalization of international trade in goods remains to be an important aspect of the CEPA, investment promotion and facilitation, the improvement of trade in services, and the creation of improved competition policy practices would promote...
Jurnal Asia Pacific Studies
Since 2017 to 2018, the world has been living through a period of progressive erosion, or collaps... more Since 2017 to 2018, the world has been living through a period of progressive erosion, or collapse, of international orders have inherited from the Cold-War. Through the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the rapid increase of U.S aggressive containment policy of Russia and China, which is both a consequence of the gradual erosion which represents deep internal and international contradictions as this process, entered its critical point. Therefore, in responding to the dynamic changes in International Relations, Kremlin has proactively proposed the Greater Eurasian Partnership for the international cooperation agenda in order to adopt within Belt and Road Initiative. This research attempts to assess the linking possibility of the Greater Eurasia integrate with the Belt and Road Initiative for improving cooperation in explanatory research that can be one of the major indicator to implement Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping agenda-setting in the Indo-Pacific region. The strategic partne...
Jurnal Asia Pacific Studies
On 20 October 2014, Joko “Jokowi: Widodo was inaugurated as 7th Indonesia President in the Parl... more On 20 October 2014, Joko “Jokowi: Widodo was inaugurated as 7th Indonesia President in the Parliament House, Senayan, to lead the world biggest Muslim country for 5 (five) years presidency (2014-2019). President Joko Widodo’s record during his first year in office was mixed. His administration signaled it would more actively defend the rights of beleaguered religious minorities, victimized by both Islamist militants, and discriminatory laws, but made few concrete policy changes. He granted clemency in May 2015 to five of Papua’s political prisoners and released another one in October, but at the same time had not freed the approximately 70 (seventy) Papuans and 29 (twenty nine) Ambones which still imprisoned for peaceful advocacy of independence. He announced lifting of decades-old restrictions on foreign media access to Papua, but then did not follow through, allowing senior government officials to effectively defy the new policy without consequences. While in August 2015, Jo...
SSRN Electronic Journal
ABSTRACT Today, most markets are seeking more than just a one-time exchange or transaction with c... more ABSTRACT Today, most markets are seeking more than just a one-time exchange or transaction with customers. The focus of market-driven companies is on developing and sustaining relationships with their customers. Successful companies recognize that creating, communicating, and delivering value to their customers is extremely important. Marketing facilitates the exchange process and the development of relationships by carefully examining the needs and wants of consumers, developing a product or service that satisfies these needs, offering it at a certain price, making it available through a particular place or channel of distribution, and developing a program of promotion or communication to create awareness and interest. Global culture always influences how we think, feel, and behave. Because of the cultural diversity of the Indonesia, nowhere is there a greater potential for inaccurate communication and misunderstanding. Cultural pluralism depends on cultural inclusion a commitment to acknowledge, respect, and adapt to others who are differently from us. Culture and communication are inseparable. The way we communicate, what we believe, what we say, the language choices we use, and the nonverbal signals we employ are all a function of the culture we acquire. How we speak and relate nonverbally to others is learned from the culture in which we grow up. In modern society, numerous individuals, groups, and agencies constantly try to influence people’s ideas, feelings, or actions. At one time, persuasion was seen as something that one person “did to” another, following the linear magic bullet model. Now we know that influence is determined by both sources and receivers, following the simultaneous transactions model. Some cultural identities are more important than others. In a communication encounter, the greater the number of cultures the participants share, the greater the accuracy of their messages and the more satisfied they are with their exchange. We are living in an age of swiftly changing and developing communication technology in the millennium era. Mediated communication differs from face-to-face communication. Some elements of the communication process are absent or severely curtailed when people use media, including opportunities for role-taking and the availability of feedback.
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