India-Indonesia Relations

A larger exchange of defence business between India and Southeast Asia may consolidate India’s position in the regional security architecture, and also forge greater political alignment with important ASEAN partners.

• Akash Sahu
• December 29, 2021
• IDSA Comments

Given that both India and Indonesia have a common interest in preserving their respective democratic, multi-ethnic and multi-religious polities, they need to work together to induce Myanmar to control the violence against the Rohingyas.

• Gautam Sen
• December 15, 2016
• IDSA Comments

President Jokowi’s state visit to India in December is an opportunity to develop a truly strategic relationship that covers maritime security and defence of the Indo-Pacific, economic relations, and cultural, training educational, and people-to-people interactions that can contribute to the realisation of the full potential of two major Asian powers in the 21st century.

• Gautam Mukhopadhaya
• November 25, 2016
• Special Feature

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.

• Rahul Mishra
• January 25, 2011
• Issue Brief

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

• Pankaj K Jha
• January 24, 2011
• IDSA Comments

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

• Baladas Ghoshal
• January 20, 2011
• Issue Brief

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.

• Navrekha Sharma
• January 20, 2011
• Issue Brief

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.

• Sudhir T. Devare
• January 20, 2011
• IDSA Comments

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.

• Rahul Mishra
• January 19, 2011
• Issue Brief

India and Indonesia, the two major regional powers, have in the recent past initiated intimate bilateral relations. With globalization as a key driver, the two countries have reconfigured their relationship particularly in the economic and defence spheres. The signing of the strategic partnership in 2005 has been critical to strengthening of the bilateral ties. Security relations are complimentary. While India needs to safeguard its interests in Southeast Asia, Indonesia needs a benign power like India for its security concerns.

• Pankaj K Jha
• May 2008
• Strategic Analysis