EMPOWERING OF DEFENSE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THE INDONESIAN ARMED FORCES’ (TNI)TASKS IN MAINTAINING REGIONAL STABILITY

Abstract

Indonesia's geographic location and position with its sovereign rights and territorial sovereignty from land, sea, and air geopolitically and geostrategically has a form of high vulnerability from traditional and non-traditional threats in violations of maritime territory and regional stability. This research aims to provide an analysis of defense resource empowerment strategies to support the Indonesia Armed Forces (TNI) main tasks in maintaining regional stability. this research is supported by the resource theory, defense theory, and stability theory approaches. The method used is qualitative descriptive statistics supported by SWOT analysis and analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Based on the results of the SWOT analysis, there are 15 internal factors in the form of strengths and 20 external factors in the form of opportunities. Of the 15 sub-items, the sub-item Foreign policy system, free and active from political aspects, is the most influential with a weight of 0.08. Meanwhile, for the obstacle/threat factor, there were 20 sub-items. The results of the SWOT and AHP analysis show that the steps for optimizing defense resources to support the main task of the TNI in resolving territorial violations are a diversification strategy, namely empowering all national resource forces for defense in resolving threats/obstacles.

Keywords

• defense resource
• regional stability
• indonesia armed forces (tni)
• swot analysis
• analytical hierarchy process (ahp)