Skripsi
ANALISIS KEPENTINGAN INDONESIA DALAM PERUNDINGAN INDONESIA-CANADA COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT (ICA-CEPA)
National interests are really important in international relations research. In relations between countries, in whatever aspect of them, especially in globally-managed trade relations, national interest are always taken into consideration in navigating a country’s foreign policy. This research focuses its attention on discussing Indonesia’s national interest in Indonesia-Canada Comprehensive Economics Partnership Agreement (ICA-CEPA) roundtable negotiations with Canada. There will be six stages negotiations between the two countries in which the first fifth negotiations have been successfully accomplished. The concept of ‘national interest’ used in this research is borrowed from Donald E. Nuchterlein’s one in which, according to him, national interest have four different aspect : Defence, economy, politics, and World Order. Data for this research are collected by almost entirely library researches; however, several in-dept interviews with relevant scholars are also prepared. With logical reasoning analysis, from data collected from the first fifth ICA-CEPA negotiations. It is concluded taht, first, economic interest are coloring Indonesia policies and step its negotiations with Canada. This includes; trade in goods and services, sustainable investations from Canada, tariffs issues, sustainable Indonesian exports to Canada, property right issues and some other. Second, Indonesia is also concerned with this political motives, in the sense that for Indonesia, protecting its people from free trade threats dictated by Canada is also extremely important. Follow-up research are certainly needed to make speculations on Indonesia’s national interest in ICA-CEPA roundtable negotiations with Canada become more complete.