Abstract

This article examines Indonesia’s conflicting roles in global trade governance, particularly in the Doha Development Round. This article argues that multilateral trade governance is utilised by Indonesian foreign policymakers to be the arena for Indonesia’s aspiration to exercise a greater role at the global level. This aspiration is reflected in its support towards liberalisation agenda at the global level. However, the commitments made, as well as the rhetoric calling for a more liberalised multilateral trading system within the Round, are not in line with Indonesia’s protectionist-leaning domestic trade policies. This condition, arguably, is the result of the co-optation of trade policy in Doha Round by the Indonesian foreign policy agenda. While the Ministry of Trade has full authority to formulate trade negotiation position, Indonesia’s aspiration for international status pursued by foreign policymakers has significantly influenced its trade policy agenda in the Doha Round. Thus, Indonesia’s behaviour in the Doha Round can only be interpreted as role-playing in which Indonesia ‘play the role’ to enhance its international status rather than based its position on coherent domestic economic interest.

摘要

本文考察了印度尼西亚在全球贸易治理中的相互冲突的角色，特别是在多哈发展回合中。本文认为，印度尼西亚外交政策制定者利用多边贸易治理作为印度尼西亚希望在全球范围内发挥更大作用的舞台。这一愿望反映在它支持全球层面的自由化议程上。然而，所作出的承诺以及呼吁在回合内建立更加自由化的多边贸易体系的言论与印度尼西亚倾向于保护主义的国内贸易政策不符。可以说，这种情况是印度尼西亚外交政策议程在多哈回合中采纳贸易政策的结果。贸易部拥有制定贸易谈判立场的全权，印度尼西亚的外交政策制定者追求国际地位的愿望极大地影响了其在多哈回合中的贸易政策议程。因此，印度尼西亚在多哈回合中的行为只能被解释为一种角色扮演，即印度尼西亚“发挥作用”以提高其国际地位，而不是将其立场建立在连贯的国内经济利益之上。