My Germany buddy, as a telecom consultant said that Indonesia is very challenging, is not easy doing build the telecom, electrical, road, etc infrastructure in Indonesia. Not like India, Brazil or South Africa as the subcontinent country, Indonesia has 17.000 more islands, and 6.000 more are habitant. It's not easy connecting whole of islands, nature challange, earth quake, eruption, roughest sea, volcanic mountains, with thousand ethnic and local languages. with a million complex problems. Big country with big problems. How Indonesia become in one nation. He was still amaze.

Don't worry, now youth Indonesia slowly but sure to be smarter than previous generation. We create more intelligent power day by day. Last time we are underestimated, but we are fast learning to moving toward. I am Indonesian and I have studied to another country to transfer technology and I was teaching in my country. I teach computers programmer, and so on. So my target I can create more people smarter than me. You will see so many youth people very smart and good skill such as electronics, they can make own electric motor, they can manufacturing etc. All can we make it in near future. Now Indonesia the biggest netizen in the world, internet just come one decade to my country. You will see the biggest technology growing in Indonesia. Because we have different gen than others country such as China, Korea, etc. We have hyper creative gen and this is our unique talent. I love my country Indonesia

Funny thing is that while in some military superpower like South Korea have something like a forced military service, in Indonesia some problem arise because too many people want to join the army Edit: alright, my definition of superpower is wrong but imma keep it there

2:21 give me goosebumps 😱... Thank you for discovering country that I love so much 🇮🇩 greeting from 🇷🇺 spasibo, let's go indonesia

I think after reading The Jakarta's Method books, this country has been soft with the west since Soekarno's defeat in 1965. All their foreign policy might be soft-controlled by west too. On my notes, Indonesia once out from UN in 1964 that's bold and brave moves for new country. But, yeah agreed this country is a global trading crossroad. Indonesia can easily influence or maybe controlled global trading route.

I hope asean countries grow more solid. It's one of the most important thing in order for our region to grow in power.

Indonesia is the key for both China and Australia. China will be foolish if they ever antagonized or even attack Indonesia knowing really well that Indonesia is emphasing neutrality policy which is rarity for a country as big as them, in the same time Indonesia is acting like "shield" protecting Australia from China's hard invasion coz the Chinese are gonna need to occupy the archipelago first before mounting the attack on Australia's soil.

5:04 as the former Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia, Susi Pudjiastuti, said, "sink 'em all!"

The problem with Indonesia is, that it is too comfortable living here so the people are lazy and less ambitious, even when you mention poor citizen, poor citizen in Indonesia still eats 3 meals a day and owns a cellphone. There are no wars, the crime rate is low, and life is so mundane that a small celebrity mishap becomes a huge problem to us lol.

Very informative video. I'd like to reiterate one thing though, that they are doing a good job in poverty. The poverty or villages in Indonesia (kampungs) are very different than that of China or India. They might be poor, but they have 3 meals a day, a cell phone, and internet avaliable. It's a fertile land with plenty of food for all. They are doing good with the electricity problem, I've seen power outlets in the literal JUNGLE at some little hut. How? Beats me..but progress is being made here

Doctrine among 255 milion Indonesia people : "Better to die than surrender to the enemy" . This shows how much Indonesian people love their country. They always says : "Freedom Or Death"

Indonesia had always been that slippery land that people sometimes avoid to talk about. That one point in history Indonesia was slightly tilted to the eastern block with its friendship with USSR, the local Communist Party staged a rebel that would later on recalled as a national tragedy which turned Indonesia's neutrality towards Communism into extreme hatred, now why would that happen so suddenly and at a critical stage of Cold War too, hm? Afterwards, a new president was installed and the new president for some reason leaned heavily to western block. When all of that had ended, none dared to have an open talk with Indonesia again. Russia kept the warm friendship but didn't overtly display affection like in the past with USSR and USA also maintained a pretty much indifferent and subtle approach. Why is this? It's not because the natural resource has run out, nope. In fact, it didn't really change much from the past, but no one dared to be as close as they used to be in the past. Why? IMO, they're keeping the lukewarm status quo to keep in check the other side. They also mostly kept Indonesia out of the heavy talk because the least they need is more attention to Indonesia. Indonesia is like the forbidden land that everyone wanted but dared not to touch because it will, IT WILL, alarm your enemies who will do everything they could to destroy any budding affection you carved with it.

As a Malaysian, would love to read more on this as the growing political and economic power of Indonesia will surely effects its neighbours

although in Indonesia there is no war but every army registration there are always many young people who want to join, being a soldier is pride in Indonesia, Because the army is more respected and trusted by Indonesians than the police, There are many military tasks that make people happy, such as building roads in villages, building bridges, help when there is a natural disaster, teaching in rural areas

I surprised you talked about Indonesia geopolitics without telling about non-alignment. Every time you ask an Indonesian which side Indonesian government is, they will almost always say non-alignment. Indonesia was even the one that create non-alignment movement during cold war through Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung (which probably piss America a lot because some of the country joining is strategically important and also a lot of countries that joined were kinda communist, even Indonesia itself). Every school thought that Indonesia foreign policy is free (non-alignment) and active (at mantaining peace). China is the largest Indonesia trade partner, but Indonesia also increase trade partner with US to counter-balance. Indonesian jet fighter come from Russia, US, and France. "the benefits of non-alignment is if the US blocks their arms trade, just buy from Soviet " - my legendary history teacher. Example of recent non-alignment action, Australia is Indonesia's friend but when they joined AUKUS and talked about nuclear sub, Indonesia opposed, Indonesia opposed and responded by buying ship, submarine, and jet fighter from France (which also oppose AUKUS) because the government anticipate arms race in Southeast Asia. This was ironically restrain China control in South China Sea even more which was probably what Australia wants (of course Australia control was also restricted although I haven't heard news about that). If you want to now the people's view, well, it's very random. The people don't like France, don't like US, like US, don't like Malaysia, love Australia (a lot), no opinion on China, no opinion on East Timor, like Bangladesh, love Saudi Arabia, like Turkey, hate Israel a lot, love Palestine. Keep in mind, this is just my lazy observation. The people's opinion varies a lot and can changes so much, you could almost say they hates all countries and overpo... actually you know what, I'm too lazy to write the rest, like a lot of this probably wrong already. Ignore 3rd paragraph. Time to get back to depression

Indonesia: Perfectly balance as all things should be

Terima kasih sir for explain about my country 🇮🇩 and its potential in current era (from geopolitic until economy)

Well, you will know Indonesian is so big when you must flight 6 hours(if direct) across 2 times zone and must pay same as ticket jakarta to haneda Japan for meet up with your GF. For flight from most East province to most West Province is around 8-10 hours direct.

We have been testing the water.. When china fishing boats sailed around North Natuna...guarded by their guard boat... And then suddenly Indonesia carried out coal export ban... Only one month. And China as a country that import 65 % of its domestic demand from Indonesia was Stunning... And then After Japan, Korea complained about the Indonesia coal export Policy.. followed by Jin Ping that phoned on Jokowi by direct call , Indonesia's Coal Export policy to China started to deliver it again. BUT Amazingly.....and.. finally, There were no China Fishing boats anymore within Indonesia North Natuna sea. Thats the Indonesian way... Not too many talks.. just showing it's unpleasant gesture... You knew it.. didn't you.

Indonesia love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩❤️❤️❤️

Indonesia is a strong country.. they are able to face colonialism from the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, British and even Americans in eastern Indonesia

3:35 as an eastern Indonesian, i can say this is not really.. Yes It's common to see a house with the solar system built in. Especially at some places which the national electricity company does not reach yet. But by the time, they slowly penetrate as the infrastructure growth by the present gov.

Great brief explanation but I wish you would mentioned a little bit more about Indonesia's "Free-Active" foreign policy and its relevancy today and decades to come.

US: We are going to be the WESTERN superpower ! China: We are going to be the EASTERN superpower ! Indonesia: We are going to just sip the coconut water and relax on the beach. Now, who's coming?

As an Indian Would always support Indonesia... We share the same rich cultural heritage of the past.. we believe in our ancestors ... And even though Indonesia has become a Muslim country they still respect and preserve their ancestral heritage .. which i love and admire..

Indonesia need to solve their socioeconomic problem very quickly. We from the neighbors believe it will bring more good than harm to the region in general. 🤝

I would say Indonesia is an impossible country to manage, since the lands and people are scattered into thousands of islands. Not to mention the country is huge, like.. HUGE. It makes the process of managing country is harder compared to a country in a single land. But somehow, Indonesia 'magically' able to hold it's identity as a country so strong 👍

REAL FACT 🇲🇨 : Indonesia has a strong unity and a very strong country, Indonesia has many allies, and if Indonesia is attacked, it is difficult to control all the islands in Indonesia, and the attackers will not only fight the army but will also fight the peoples, all men and young people in Indonesia,, the people will be willing to die for the country, the Indonesian people have a history of fighting dutch, as a country with the most Muslims they believe defending the country means protecting religion and they consider it and called it "jihad", or death for religion, Indonesia has a saying "freedom or death"

Siapapun pemenangnya (US/China), Indonesia haruslah menjadi Basis Manufacturing dari global chain perusahaan-perusahaan global karena selama ini Indonesia hanya di jadikan Pasar oleh Thailand dan Vietnam ( otomotif dan elektronik/ponsel), keputusan yang paling tepat adalah jangan sampai Indonesia terlalu menunjukkan kemampuannya dalam berpolitik internasional sebelum Indonesia dijadikan Base oleh Manufacturing Dunia...( ASEAN telah mengambil keuntungan yang terlalu besar dari yang seharusnya mereka peroleh dari Indonesia)

Indonesia is like that kid on school that very quite never talk or bother anyone but had some few friends. But once they got bullied he's ready to pull out his guns

Indonesia is a democratic country, which means a country led by the people... if Indonesia goes to war it can be estimated that the number of Indonesian soldiers will be at least 10 million depending on the availability of weapons. lucky Indonesia can make rifles, missiles, tanks, panzers, submarines, battleships, airplanes, radars, drones and many more..

Indonesia berpotensi menjadi negara besar di masa mendatang. Negara berpengaruh di dunia.

South East Asia in general is an important area that will play a key role in the future O.O

U know what If we look carefully, Indonesia exactly look's like Europe, has the same empire that qonquer the surrounding kingdom But Europe never unite and always in war, while in musantara it's kingdom has less war and more trade, Europe has desert that full of more kingdom to do war with them in South and Viking in the nort that always sack and attack them, while musantara don't, only a desert continents that has so many deadly animal like emu and normal tribe in the South and more normal kingdom that always kill each other in the nort But both safe from mongol invasion, but Europe fight the mongol directly and musantara use talk no jutsu to trick them so one guy can create an empire and unite the musantara (majapahit empire) And that's why Europe qonquer the world and musantara not

I as an indonesian would love to see the day where ASEAN become one.. internally trading with one another, rather than try to please the giant overlords like the U.S. or China.. there is just something beautiful where small nation united and grow TOGETHER.. but alas.. only in dreams and unicorn land where that can be achieved.. LOVE TO ALL ASEAN MEMBERS~

Di negara lain orang-orang lari dari militer .. di indonesia orang-orang berebut masuk militer. Sampai ada orang-orang yang ikut berkali-kali tes untuk masuk menjadi bagian dari militer.

Thanks, it's an great honor for us 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

Interesting comments and accounts to be read here. Indonesia tries very much to become a world balancing power, through various leaders and governments it has not without its challenges as monetary, social, and cultural developments especially since the latter half of the 20th century has been so rapid. As the initiator of the Non-Alligned Movement during the Asia-Africa Conference in 1955 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia’s foreign policy has always been “free and active”. This, Indonesia believes, will keep the balance of world powers in South East Asia. Despite the fact that Singapore and the Philipines have alligned themselves more to the USA, and Malaysia and Brunei also being a member of the British Commonwealth, I believe they are not puppet countries of the West. Indonesia and ASEAN must be neutral to maintain peace in South East Asia and not become entangled the politics of the US, China, Taiwan etc.

this video is insanely well made, i can't believe you don't have more subscribers

I think the issue with America in Southeast Asia goes beyond only Indonesia. There should be very heavy work being done both diplomatically and economically with all of ASEAN and, in particular, the 5 tiger cub economies and Singapore. Even if it’s just to guarantee neutrality which Southeast Asia tends to favour anyways. Being between India, China, and America has incredible economic potential that Singapore took full advantage of. Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines are probably the most important countries on the planet to gain the favour of going forward. America hasn’t seemed to fully grasp how important this is yet. Luckily, Japan and Australia have with both pouring tons of FDI into the 5 and Australia cooperating a lot with Indonesia in counter insurgency operations training.

Awesome, informative short video. Will be revisiting the episode!

On paper we Indonesia will never aligned ourselves to either one becouse our constitution told us not to do so In reality we might be, but because nothing is formal we pretty much flexible. I believe the superpower know that

considering indonesia has 7000 islands it is very impresive they have stayed united and become a sleeping giant

As a Bangladeshi, i find this so intriguing. Such interesting geopolitical scenarios. This is making me restless.

Trade alone is not a good enough indicator of strategic influence. You need to look at history, geography, demographics, supply lines etc. This is an extremely narrow view of geopolitics. To imply that the USA has no interest because of trade deficits between countries is a useless artifact.

i love the new video style .

I can't believe this video got recommended to me I hope you will get more subscribers

Siapapun dan dimanapun, kita adalah saudara, budaya dan bangsa adalah perbedaan yang bisa di satukan lewat cinta dan toleransi

FYI, the constructionof the New Capital City, which named Nusantara, has begun, and when the government finally move from Jakarta to Nusantara I believe the state of Indonesian geopolitics landscape will drastically change. Or maybe it won't, idk.

Cold War make Indonesia as Domino for western and eastern bloc. If USSR can still make Ir. Soekarno believe at them, that was a victory for eastern bloc in SEA region, but the reality is western bloc succesfully erased Ir. Soekarno from Indonesia's politic with an coup d'etat by the Military with the justified to purge the communist party and they supporter. But, in the end the military also killed some intellectual person (like university college students) also many Soekarnoism or Soekarno is supporter. But why Soekarno must be removed from Indonesia's politic? Because Soekarno main projects is make Indonesia to independence from all means, like in foreign policy the president want to Free and Active policy that make Indonesia can 'befriend' all country and all nation. Another reason is, Soekarno was a socialist and want to make NASAKOM (Nasionalism, Religious, Communist) he want to make like United Front for 3 parties, PNI or Indonesian Nasionalist Party, all Religious parties, and the Indonesian Communist Party or PKI. Some faction seen this as threat for them, one of those is the Military faction from I like say old guard who are trained under the colonial. In the end, CIA and the Military successfully removed Soekarno from Indonesia's politic and make a new regime under military restrictions for 32 years and fall in 1998. And now, Indonesia is under the Oligarchy is control. Just look at the cabinet and how many oligrachs are on the Senate and National Assembly.

With the current geopolitical state that Indonesia is currently in, I don't think Indonesia will be able to tie themselves as an ally with the US because of how reliant we are as a country to China. Non-alignment is definitely the best move, for now.

relationships made during cold war were really important just look at Russia and India

Really great video. So nicely explained.

Kuncinya koruptor dihukum mati itu yang akan membawa Indonesia menjadi negara maju

The thing about Indonesia is that they seems to have little to no ambitions to dominate SEA, they don’t really meddle with other people’s issues and they’re very preoccupied with internal issues. Could be a dangerous thing because everyone’s friend usually ended up being friendless in conflict, and looking at their past confrontation with Malaysia, no one seems to side with them in any issue whatsoever.

Singaporean here, we invest alot in Indonesia and have seen its economy skyrocket in recent years while Malaysia's economy stagnate. But recently Islamic fundamentalism is creeping back and it might really dampen decades of economic progress but luckily its people and leaders are choosing to keep extremist ideologies at bay and follow what makes a economy tick

Interesting video! Also liked how you edited it.

Indonesia is so independent, even their worst enemy is themselves.

Hebatnya adalah para bapak pendiri bangsa kita, Indonesia, berpesan "Janganlah kebarat-baratan juga ketimur-timuran." Kultur dan sistem kerajaan masih terasa, dari undang-undang dan juga ideologi Pancasila serta semboyannya yang diambil dari kitab Sutasoma yang isinya kurang-lebih mengandung toleransi. Balik lagi ke dalam ideologi Pancasila, ideologi Pancasila singkatnya menunjukkan wajah bangsa Indonesia. Berketuhanan dan sosialis. Adab dan demokrasi. HAM dan persatuan. Jadi tak heran jika Indonesia sejatinya adalah negara yang berbeda dengan negara lainnya. Hampir tiap baris kita punya perbedaan tapi persatuan harus ditegakkan. Jika sekali saja negara kita mengalami revolusi mungkin kita akan maju lebih dari selangkah ke depan menyongsong hari yang lebih baik. Saat ini kebanyakan dari kita masih tertidur nyenyak dengan keadaan yang diberikan oleh kemajuan zaman. Singkat saja, jika kita bisa merubah sistem pemerintahan kita ke arah yang lebih baik maka tidak dipungkiri kita bisa lebih maju dari negara lainnya tapi untuk itu kita harus memperkuat nilai hukum dan membubarkan lembaga negara yang tidak penting.

as the largest archipelagic country in the world with a vast sea area, Indonesia has great potential to become a superpower and leader of Asia and a balance between the two great powers, needs a lot of improvement and improvement in performance as well as production and economic productivity, improving the quality of human resources, and needs leaders. big visionary to make Indonesia a developed country superpower in the future

Great stuff!

4:08 If Indonesia has a large military power at sea, equivalent to a super power country, then international sea lanes can be used as a profitable source of income. other schemes involve big countries such as the USA, PRC, Russia, to participate in 'getting' part of the international seaborne "security insurance" in the Indonesian Archipelagic Sea Lanes (ALKI 1, 2, and 3).

This video deserve more views.

Aku bangga menjadi rakyat Indonesia ✊✊✊

Indonesia🇲🇨 luck is with you because you don't have an immediate threat from your neighboring countries that's why your country only spend 0.8% of your gdp on defence i.e. 7 to 8 billion dollars, keep up the hard work. Unlike us Indian🇮🇳 us we got neighbors like pakistan and china, that's why we have to spend 2% of our gdp in defense i.e. 60 to 70 billion dollars. If we had good neighbors we need not had to spend that much amount on defence rather we would have spent it on building schools, education and new businesses.

INDONESIA bisa bangkit berdaulat ketika pemerintah berhasil lepas dari para investor dengan mewujudkan industri dalam negeri melalui BUMN tanpa campur tangan asing

They are more concerned about Australia getting the nuclear sub.

Indonesian people very brave strong together and strong army

As an indonesian, i can't agree more with Kissinger. It is fatal to be a friend of the US. My view is reinforced after seeing how the US treats it's close ally Germany with the Nordstream ops. We do have problem with China, but we would be in crisis if we invite the US. The last thing we need is a foreign hegemon. Either we make peace through strength with China, or... there is no ''Or' for us this time. I support an indonesian nuclear program, 100%. ASEAN needs a powerhouse of it's own, it's time we take care of our own house. Build up of defence industry will kick up high tech sector boom. It will be a high tech sector that produces real tech like hypersonics and space-related products, not just a lame app for payment or chatting.

Unlike Europe in the past. Indonesia as a power would like to stay away from the blue or red. The nation would like to be an intermediary nation, because it bodes well with them geopolitcaly. The nation is currently on the way of achieving such goal, slowly stabilizing it's territory and developing their eastern region. And in current time, should an outside power try to disturb via planned 'subterfuge', it will possibly tilt the country's alignment dramatically. Country's relationship toward any outside power is simple; be nice and they will be nice in return, be hostile and they will retaliate.

Thank you so much. Greetings from Indonesia. 🇮🇩🙏

thank you,this is very educative 👍

Kekuatan nyata di Indonesia🇮🇩 ada di rakyatnya yang cerdas, terdidik oleh sejarah yang panjang, Sehingga mampu menempatkan diri di atas pergaulan dunia yang netral....... Sampai jumpa di pertemuan G20 sebagai bukti kematangan Indonesia🇮🇩 dalam pergaulan dunia🌏 Uraaaa........

Great content

India is not a US ally typically... Its more of a strategic partner... We have relationships with Russia and the US at the same time so its in the middle... But yea, China is India's greatest foe so no doubt...

anda jangan cuma melihat jumlah Militer tentara INDONESIA 400.000 , lihat lah kedalam negara INDONESIA bangsa yang mempunyai 150 ORGANISASI MASYARAKAT lebih, mereka semua mempunyai Paramiliter, salah SATU ORGANISASI TERBESAR DI INDONESIA bahkan DUNIA tahun 2023 mempunyai paramiliter 7 juta lebih, yang siap MENJAGA NEGARA KESATUAN REPUBLIK INDONESIA. NKRI HARGA MATI. 😊

Officially , India never sided with any block as it was the founder of Non Alignment movement.

Great video!

Indonesia IS THE POWER ; Not just a balance of power. Thank You.

Indonesia is a non block country.. which means all we wanted is peace for everycountry on this earth

Indonesia is growing so fast and now become the member of G20... They are hard working people...

A support a asian union when asian countries are developed

This channel’s quality deserves millions of subs

Great video dude.

I like how he says the countrys Capital citys name instead of the countrys name

*Indonesia 🇮🇩 and for that matter every TROPICAL country should know that the structure of everything in this world, is determined by uv ir...high energy to low energy... there's highest energy in the tropics... everything else is just the low energy arrangment and nothing else*

Indonesia, the most blessed people in the world, that's why we have very complex problems...Masya Allah 🤲🏼

saya lg mengikuti pelatihan nih, jadi ga sabar + deg" an pas ujian kompetensi

the united states didn't care until finally china started investing then they started to care🙃🙃

Great content. Especially about the importance of Indonesia. A few small corrections though. Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines are US allies. Myanmar is not quite in the China camp. And India is too large to side with anyone.

Greetings from Philippines mabuhay

As a Malaysian this is interesting

Indonesian 🇮🇩 strength comes from the roots of their civilisation, namely Bhineka Tunggal Ika mean united in diversity by upholding humanity, tolerance, democracy, and the noble ideals of social justice.

INDONESI🇮🇩 is a sleeping giant, rich nature, ethnic and cultural diversity, if Indonesia is able to process its natural resources properly and end corruption, one of the superpowers

Its hard to take this seriously when you think Philippines is a neutral country with US military bases on it and India is siding with the US while having no American military bases on it.

Imagine if countries like India , Indonesia , Philippines, Sri Lanka , Oman and Egypt form their own bloc

NKRI 🇮🇩 👍

For a moment, I thought this is Nile Red and I was wondering where are the chemistry experiments. Cool video tho. Fresh topic for me. :D

Its good country with lots of good potential natural resources, unfortunately the government is terrible and the education level of some indonesian is below average.

Our bebas-aktif/free-active policy doesn't mean we wouldn't choose a side, but we choose what side benefits/align with our policy and needs. At the moment, the trade situation is balanced but the armed force is definitely leaning toward the west.