POLICY EVALUATION ON SECURITY TREATY (THE LOMBOK TREATY) BETWEEN REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA AND AUSTRALIA

Abstract

Bilateral cooperation on security treaty and other treaties in any form must be based upon trust among parties involved. The inter-trusted sense will be easier to be developed if those parties having some similarities especially in their cultural dimensions. On the contrary, if the two countries having significant differences, such as culture, history, level of social development, economic and technological developments it would be difficult to build the sense of trust and respect with each other. The study on the entire focus of research used a qualitative approach, through in-depth-interview techniques and documentation of secondary data in the data collection process. Then the data were analyzed using the interactive model. So, policy implementation performance in the form of bilateral cooperation between heterogeneous countries in many aspects will be determined by answering the question to what extent is one country’s people able to perceive positively toward the other country’s people. The result of this research are; first, the process of drafting the bilateral security cooperation policy that produces a particular product policy, influenced by three factors such as: the policy base used in the process of drafting the policy, actors involved in the process of developing policy, and bargaining positions of related country upon other countries. Second, the success of bilateral security policy process determined by the perspectives or meaning that is given to the policy substance and the role of actors. Third, The impact of the bilateral security policy against a country not only military security, but also non-military security.

Keywords

• Bilateral cooperation
• security treaty
• policy evaluation
• Indonesia
• Australia
• Lombok