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Indonesia’s Legacy on the Security Council: Dare to Save Lives

 


The Indonesian delegation, June 2018, when it was elected member of the Asia-Pacific region to the UN Security Council for 2019-2020. Retno Marsudi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the right; and Dian Triansyah Djani, center, the UN ambassador. The key to management at the Board? Tolerance and patience, he said. MANUEL ELIAS / A PHOTO

A major power in Southeast Asia and a middle power on a global scale, Indonesia plays a role of “bridge builder” in the United Nations Security Council, he said. It is a strategy that is becoming increasingly difficult to embody, however, with the rise in tensions between the five great powers of the Council: Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.

“You have to have a lot of tolerance, you have to be able to network,” Dian Triansyah Djani, Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the UN, told PassBlue. “And it’s all in the DNA of every Indonesian; we have been taught to be very patient in many ways. Our way of diplomacy has always been quiet diplomacy, we are not in megaphone diplomacy. But our diplomacy aims to find solutions to our problems.

While this may be the diplomatic approach taken by the Indonesian government, Mochammad Faisal Karim, assistant professor of international relations at Bina Nusantara University, says it is becoming more difficult for Jakarta not to choose sides in geopolitics. Like many other countries, she is drawn to the bottom line.

“When it comes to investment, China has more leverage stored in Asia, and this must be maintained, while at the same time with Trump’s rise to power, Trump wanted to remove Indonesia from the list of GSP beneficiaries . [generalized system of preference], so Indonesia has sided with China, ”Karim said.

For the month of August, Indonesia’s priorities as rotating President of the Security Council will focus on the effects of Covid-19 on peacekeeping; the link between transnational organized crime and terrorism; and major mandate renewals, such as the UN mission in Lebanon (Unifil), the joint mission in Somalia and the UN sanctions regime in Mali.

Peacekeeping is an issue particularly at the heart of the Indonesian delegation. “We are the primary contributor to PCC [police-contributing country] in the Security Council now, we have been contributing since 1957, with over 50,000 boys and girls, ”Djani said. “We lost a peacekeeper in an attack last month; it was a sad day for me as I had to write a letter to parents and it is not an easy part. He noted in a media briefing that Indonesia would like the Council to adopt a resolution on the role of women peacekeepers.

The question of Palestine, still a priority for Indonesia, will also be debated at a monthly meeting on the Middle East. A few days ago, the head of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, called the Indonesian President Joko Widodo to discuss, among other things, the presidency of the Council. Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world.

“I think it is important for us to continue the discussion to ensure that there is no annexation of the territory,” Djani said of the Indonesia-Palestine relationship (and the possible Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory). “So we want to make sure that all the different commitments, various resolutions are duly implemented, and that we also have a meeting scheduled. [on the 25th] on this particular issue under our presidency. “

In July, as President of the Council, Germany held two face-to-face meetings in the Economic and Social Affairs Council Chamber at UN Headquarters, a larger setting than the Security Council Chamber, to allow social distancing. Indonesia says it will “hear what members want” and make its decision on the frequency of in-person meetings, based on New York rules and advice from the UN Secretariat.

Each month, PassBlue profiles the UN Ambassadors as they assume the Presidency of the Council. To learn more about Indonesia’s goals in August, with insights from academic Mochammad Faisal Karim, download the latest episode of PassBlue’s UN-Scripted podcast series at SoundCloud or Patreon. (Excerpts from the podcast are below.)

Ambassador to the UN: Dian Triansyah Djani, 58 years old
Since: 2016
Languages:Indonesian, English
Education: Bachelor of Economics (University of Indonesia); MA in Economic Development and International Trade (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee); Ph.D., international relations (University of Padjadjaran, Indonesia)
Its history, briefly: Djani was born in Jakarta, but his parents were diplomats and he was quickly introduced to other parts of the world, including Russia, Poland, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Thailand. “For us, diplomacy is a family business,” he told PassBlue last year. Many of his other parents are economists, as are his wife, Lista Damayanti, and their son, Panji Caraka Djani, who graduated from Columbia University.

After earning his undergraduate degree in Indonesia and his graduate degree at Vanderbilt, Ambassador Djani followed a natural path to diplomacy. He spent most of his career between New York and Geneva, where he was also Permanent Representative to the United Nations. “My son was actually born in Flushing,” he says.

With only five months remaining in Indonesia’s two-year term on the Council, Djani concludes: “I am an idealist. This is something you must have as an ambassador to the Security Council. You have to be an idealist, you have to be absolutely clear that you are working for people [of the world], not just for your own people.

At the end of Indonesia’s tenure, Djani will likely pack his bags and return home, following Indonesia’s diplomatic tradition.

Karim from Bina Nusantara University says of Djani, “I think he’s the best man Indonesia has so far, when it comes to representing us internationally. Ambassador Djani has more experience than any other diplomat, even the Minister of Foreign Affairs [Retno Marsudi], with regard to seniority and experience in high level international forums.

Djani represented Indonesia in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) from 2002 to 2008, with his tenure culminating in a three-year term as Managing Director. “It was he who, thanks to his diplomatic skills, finally made the other ASEAN members create what we call an ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights,” said Karim.

The Security Council’s working agenda for August 2020. Opening the VTC and closing the VTC means videoconference meetings. Some Council members want to hold more face-to-face meetings at the UN, but nothing has been decided yet.

Djani spoke to PassBlue on July 30. His remarks have been drafted for more space and clarity.

What are your country’s priorities for the month of August? Our theme from last year [as Council president] was investing in peace, and we want to continue that approach. Our current theme is advancing a lasting peace, which of course again illustrates Indonesia’s mission in the Security Council. So we wanted to advance the peacekeeping agenda in the post-pandemic world. We want to make sure that there are problems and answers to new security challenges; terrorism is a problem that we must continue to monitor. We also want to ensure that Council members are able to act even in times of conflict.

So there are several priorities. One thing is that we want to ensure continuity. . . . The Security Council has debated so many issues in the past, which is why we want to make sure there are no gaps. That is precisely why we are supporting this program to promote lasting peace. One thing I would also like to emphasize is that in the time of Covid-19, all the constituencies, whether in Europe, America, Asia or Indonesia, they all look at us, in the Security Council. , the United Nations, to be able to deal with what is happening.

Following the physical shutdown of the UN during the first months of the pandemic, Germany began holding in-person Security Council meetings in July, as restrictions were lifted in New York. Is there pressure for you to do more physical meetings? We will hear what the [Council] wishes of members. We have to balance everything, including the situation in New York; we also need to balance the Secretariat’s assessment. Whether you have a meeting in person or through the VTC, we have done what people perhaps did not expect Council to do by trying to resolve many of the issues. The result is therefore the most important. Of course, we also want to continue to build on what Germany is doing. Looking at the situation, I hope it continues to improve in New York, so that we can have more in-person meetings.

If you were to write to the Ambassador who will represent Indonesia at his next Council session, what would you say? One thing I would write, from my own personal experience, is that you need a lot of patience. You have to have a lot of tolerance, you have to be able to network. It’s all in the DNA of every Indonesian, we’ve been taught to be very patient in so many ways. . . our diplomacy aims to find solutions to our problems. This is something we need to focus on when you are on the Council, to always remind us that you do not only represent your country, but as elected members you represent 193 members of the United Nations.

In our case, we had to compete for Council membership. I have taught all my colleagues in the Asia-Pacific region that although we are from there, we represent 193 countries. Not only that, we represent the peoples of the world, and we must not lose sight of this. I’ve been fighting for this principle constantly since we started in January [2019]. We dare to have principles; we look at it on the basis of various simple points, which is to save lives, whether it is in Yemen, whether it is in Syria, whether it is in Libya, in Venezuela and elsewhere in the world. This has been our quest and I hope we did it the best we could.

For the next Indonesian Ambassador, I think that would be the right thing to say because we are here in this world together; as I mentioned on Covid, no country is immune. No country can tackle this pandemic alone, whether you are a superpower or not, unless you work together. For us, bridging the gap, finding consensus, finding unity in the Council, will be our main theme for the month of August and until the end of our presidency; and even after we are not in the Council, we will continue to do so. We continue this as our foreign policy, since we joined the UN.

Country Profile
Head of state: President Joko Widodo
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Retno marsudi
Type of government: Presidential representative democratic republic
Year of Indonesia’s accession to the UN: 1950
Years on the Security Council: 1973-74, 1995-96, 2007-08, 2019-20
Population: 267 million (fourth most populous country in the world)

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