Prabowo’s ‘Free and Active’ Foreign Policy: Balancing Relations With China, the US, and ASEAN
Indonesia’s foreign policy is about to face more challenging times with President Prabowo Subianto. The Bebas-Aktif principle (“Free and Active”) was created to ensure Jakarta’s autonomy and to ensure that it is able to reach out to all major powers. But today, it is becoming harder to balance arms between the great powers. The concept of ‘rowing between two reefs’ …

