Abstract:
The Indo-Pacific Region (IPR) gained momentum as an important region for
international politics and the world's economic lifelines of the 21st century. As the
coastal states, India and Indonesia strongly rely on Indo-Pacific's seaborne trade
and SLOCs to transport goods, energy resources, and commodities throughout the
region. Making the two leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joko
Widodo, explore the convergence of common strategic interests between India's
AEP and Indonesia's GMF in the region. Thus, as India and Indonesia recently
established maritime cooperation under the new elevated Comprehensive Strategic
Partnership's framework, this research study discusses how India and Indonesia
implemented bilateral cooperation on maritime diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific
Region from 2016 to 2022 with the conceptual framework of Maritime Diplomacy
proposed by Christian Le Mière. This study uses qualitative methods with library
research and in-depth personal interviews for data collection techniques. This
research study found two leading maritime agencies representing India and
Indonesia that frequently conduct maritime diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific Region:
Navies and the Coast Guards. Based on the data found in this research, from the
period 2016 to 2022, both countries implemented cooperative maritime diplomacy
practices and carried out all four forms of activities, namely Goodwill Visits,
HA/DR, Training and Joint Exercise, and Joint Maritime Security operation.
