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Blue Security
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This issue examines how Indonesia’s #maritime policies have been made within the context of strategic culture, in which two strains, shaped by different interpretations of its geography and strategic history, coexist in tension.

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Blue Security
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One strain is inward-looking, driven by a sense of vulnerability and focused narrowly on Indonesia’s territorial integrity as an archipelagic state and domestic development agenda. The other is outward-looking, driven by Indonesia’s sense of regional entitlement.

Blue Security
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Policy implications exist for Indonesia’s long-term strategic behaviour, the dilemma Indonesia’s strategic culture presents for external powers & how Aust should best strategically engage with SEA in a manner that does not undermine Indonesia’s leadership or territorial integrity