Indonesia has had several presidents who issued the policies controversial. He is the KH Abdurrahman Wahid, who often called Gus Dur and is known as one of the former president of Indonesia’s religious and democratic Indonesia has ever had. He was one of Islam who stated that Islam can not be the basis of considering the plurality of state in Indonesia. Abdurrahman Wahid, also known as a very humane because to see things from the human side and empathy for issues related to humanity.
One of the controversial policies that he mad was going to establish diplomatic relations with Israel in which Indonesia had decide not to have any kind of relations with the Zionist state on the basis of occupation / colonialism by the state against the Palestinians.
Another controversial policy ever initiated by Abdurrahman Wahid was the idea of forming strategic alliances that exists between Indonesia, India, and China that sponsored by Japan and Singapore. This policy is considered very controversial for China and India that eventually led to rejection, because in their opinion the idea of a strategic alliance between the three countries in the region can come up with new threats to the international world.
The formation of this alliance can be analyzed using the framework of the theory of independence formulated by Weinstein. Abdurrahman Wahid considered that the alliance formed by the United States is harming developing countries (eg India and Indonesia). In this case it is seen that freedom also means against western domination of the developing countries in Asia because Asia is a part of a constellation of interactions arena of international relations that has contributed more than other parts of the region. It is also not separated from the plurality of Asian religiousness itself. As a nation that has historical roots of the oldest, of course, produce heterogeneity of race, religion, kind of tribal culture. Asian Awakening that economists had identified from each of the high income countries in some parts of East and Southeast Asia, where nearly every year gained an average GNP of 6% -10%. In contrast to Europe and America who clearly supported the existence of supporting factors as the State industrialists. High income is illustrated by Stanley Fischer as The Miracle of Asia. Where the characteristics of Asian economies that produced the high growth of earlier decades remain in place, among them highly skilled, hard-working, and high-saving workers and entrepreneurs. So this is what motivates Abdurrahman Wahid to form an alliance that ‘challenging’ U.S.’s domination and its allies and could eventually make the bargaining position of Indonesia, India and Japan-sponsored China and Singapore became larger. The idea of Asia Strategic Partnership and utilization of AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Area) is also an attempt early in the process of economic integration of Asia. Experience of the foundation of the old system, the integration of Asian economies will grow at a solid and at the end Asia will become one of the world economic power.This point was also explains the relation between the concept of development with the formation of strategic alliances. If Asia had a solid into a world economic power, where Indonesia is also included, as well as to take advantages of these conditions, then Indonesia can be completely independent and free of foreign financing that is increasingly burdensome Indonesian economy.
The idea of Abdurrahman Wahid seemed there are some progress to done. ASEAN member countries are actively trying to encourage integration between each other. ASEAN plans to realize the economic community purposes in the year 2015 based on the “Blue Plan ASEAN Economic Community” signed by member states which outlines four points which is the cornerstone for achieving the ASEAN economic community and the market is an integrated production base, the economic zone of highly competitive, balanced economic development and in accordance with international standards in the economic field. Therefore, ASEAN to embrace China, by way of signing the investment agreement, which would create a conducive situation to the establishment of free trade area China-ASEAN. China Free Trade Area and ASEAN was held in 2001, and in the 6-year period only, namely in the year 2007, the amount of trade between both of them reached 200 billion U.S. dollars. With the establishment of free trade zones in China-ASEAN by the year 2010, ASEAN is expected to be able to overcome the U.S. and become the second largest trading partner for China after the European Union in 2015.
The reign of Abdurrahman Wahid, who had a lot of ideas and policies are controversial not long endure. But policies Abdurrahman Wahid was based on a vision that Indonesia does not depend on the concept of western Franklin Weinstein referred to the concept of independence in third world countries not only in the form of independence from colonial efforts of other countries. In the case of the formation of ideas Strategic Alliance between Indonesia, India, China can be viewed as the implementation of free foreign policy that is currently active berkonteks between western and Muslim world.
Good-bye, K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesia may be aware of your services services-wrote so beautifully for them.
gitu aja kok repot ?
