CHINA-INDONESIA COLLABORATION TO TRANSFORM THEIR COMMON INTEREST ON MARITIME DIPLOMACY: THE CASE OF MARITIME SILK ROAD OF CHINA AND GLOBAL MARITIME FULCRUM OF INDONESIA (2014-2016)

Abstract

Seeing the glory of Maritime Silk Road in the past has driven President Republic of China, Xi Jinping to build back again the glory of Maritime Silk Road into this 21st century. Known as One Belt One Road initiative, China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road has become one of the initiative that China has created in solving the economy problem and the challenges that the country has faced. The steps have been implemented by Xi Jinping in running the initiative mission by doing the diplomacy in countries that have been through the maritime silk route including Indonesia. Joko Widodo has known as the President Republic of Indonesia started his administration by declaring his vision to build Indonesia as Global Maritime Fulcrum. In his journey, Indonesia have been faced many various challenges such as lack of the connectivity in region and the development of infrastructure that needed to be improved. Having the vision in maritime has driven China and Indonesia to collaborate in maritime diplomacy that included in the Joint Statement on Strengthening Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the People's Republic of China and Republic of Indonesia. By using the qualitative analytical research methods, this thesis hence is aiming to investigate the interest that has driven the collaboration on maritime diplomacy of this both countries. The main focus of this thesis is to explain the collaboration and the interest of China in 21st century maritime silk road with Indonesia to be the Global Maritime Fulcrum in the period administration of President Xi Jinping and President Joko Widodo in year of 2014-2016. The result of this thesis is expected to give a clear picture to the reader about the interest of China-Indonesia collaboration on maritime diplomacy by showing the result of this collaboration implementation.