Molding a strategic and professional Indonesian military: policy options for the next administration/ Evan A. Laksmana
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The Indonesian Quarterly 3rd Quarter 2009, Vol.37, No.3, pp.352-363 (30)Summary: Addresses the strategic gap between Indonesia's increasingly complex domestic, regional, and global security environment, and the country's inability to fully reform its national military, the TNI (Tentara Nasional Indonesia). Also looks at fundamental problems i.e. the miltiary's education and training system, and the strength of the civilian defence community, that must be addressed in order to create a strategic and professional military. This article also suggests that the President (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono) himself, instead of the Defence Minister, should be directly and personally involved in pushing any reform policies focussing on the 2 areas mentioned. Furthermore, the article tries to move away frorm the current Security Sector Reform (SSR) parlance and discourse that has thus focused on the military's politics, business, and accountability - and their accompanying regulations.
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Addresses the strategic gap between Indonesia's increasingly complex domestic, regional, and global security environment, and the country's inability to fully reform its national military, the TNI (Tentara Nasional Indonesia). Also looks at fundamental problems i.e. the miltiary's education and training system, and the strength of the civilian defence community, that must be addressed in order to create a strategic and professional military. This article also suggests that the President (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono) himself, instead of the Defence Minister, should be directly and personally involved in pushing any reform policies focussing on the 2 areas mentioned. Furthermore, the article tries to move away frorm the current Security Sector Reform (SSR) parlance and discourse that has thus focused on the military's politics, business, and accountability - and their accompanying regulations.
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