SISTER PROVINCE COOPERATION ON THE SECTOR OF ARTS & CULTURE BETWEEN SPECIAL REGION OF YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA AND THE STATE OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA (2017 – 2020)

Abstract

Paradiplomacy is a relatively new science study in International Relations subject to help understand the cooperation between two sub-state entities from different countries. These two sub-state entities can be in different forms such as regional governments, non-government organizations, multinational companies, and government institutions that have one similar interest that both parties have agreed upon. The regional government of Special Region of Yogyakarta and the State of Victoria has managed to utilize the concept of paradiplomacy in the form of sister province cooperation in increasing each regions activity in the international scene. Both regional governments have signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding with the sector of arts & culture as their agreed sector as one of the work frames of the cooperation. The writer utilizes Alexander Kuznetsov’s paradiplomacy analytical framework to analyse the sister province cooperation between Special Region of Yogyakarta and the State of Victoria. The analytical framework covers six questions that explains the case of paradiplomacy such as the cause, the consequences, the legal grounds, the institutional products, the predominant motive, and the attitude of the central governments.