Indonesia and China's Belt and Road Initiatives : Perspectives, Issues and Prospects /

For Indonesia, which is keen to accelerate its infrastructure development, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is seen as an opportunity to tap into China's huge financial resources and technological capability. There has however been no concrete BRI project agreed to between China and Indonesia so...

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Main Authors: Negara, Siwage Dharma (Author), Suryadinata, Leo (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE
Trends in Southeast Asia ; 2018, no. 11
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Summary:For Indonesia, which is keen to accelerate its infrastructure development, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is seen as an opportunity to tap into China's huge financial resources and technological capability. There has however been no concrete BRI project agreed to between China and Indonesia so far. While China considers all projects, including infrastructure projects and economic interactions as part of BRI, Indonesia only considers those infrastructure projects initiated during the Xi Jinping period as BRI projects. Indonesia has offered several broad areas for cooperation under the BRI framework and carefully selected project locations to minimize political risk for the Joko Widodo government. But no agreements have been signed yet as China requires detailed project proposals from Indonesia, which it has apparently not received. What appears to hamper progress are four key issues: the perception of China's economic domination, the ethnic Chinese issue, the Natuna issue, and the mainland Chinese workers issue
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource (1 PDF (41 pages) :)) illustrations, map
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:9789814818599
9789814818605
ISSN:0219-3213 ;
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