Comments & Briefs

To maximise gains from their bilateral relations, India and Indonesia have to tread a middle path - a mix of furthering economic complementarities while competing to attract foreign investments.

The changing security environment calls for re-fashioning the use of hard power, which may have to be managed differently in the future.

President Yudhoyono’s visit is likely to take the strategic partnership to the next level.

How India and Indonesia look at each other, the region and the world at large will determine the course of their relationship in coming years.

Like in the space arena, India has the capability to offer its expertise to other countries in the field of nuclear power and non-nuclear applications.

The Indian Government, and the Foreign policy establishment in particular, can do more to leverage the vast collective experience of Indians in Indonesia and channel it towards the larger ends of bilateral cooperation.

Political, economic and strategic factors in the post-Cold War period call for expanded co-operation between India and Indonesia.

The cultural linkages between India and Indonesia have to be leveraged, as a foreign policy tool, to take India-Indonesia relations to the next level.

Gates has steered Japan and South Korea towards aligning their shared threat perceptions about North Korea and China.

By concentrating only on the inequities of the blasphemy law, Pakistani ‘moderates’ and commentators elsewhere are missing the point that the real battle is against radical Islamic thought.