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(From The Jakarta Post)
from THE JAKARTA POST -- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2006 -- PAGE 3 The sustainability and prevalence of democracy in the country has (finally) pushed the foreign ministry to openly tout libertarian values as a key tool in diplomacy
During his annual foreign policy statement, foreign minister N. Hassan Wirajuda highlighted some key aspects which will chart the course of Indonesian foreign policy in years to come
One of these is the application of "soft power" variables -- in particular Indonesia's embracement of democratic values and moderate Islam -- as a key tool of diplomacy. Using once alien vocabulary such as "the establishment of rule-of-the-law based democracy" and "the …