IMPLEMENTASI DIPLOMASI PERTAHANAN INDONESIA DAN ITALIA DALAM MENJAGA KEAMANAN MARITIM INDONESIA (STUDI KASUS: PENGADAAN KAPAL PERANG)

Abstract

Security and Defense issues in the study of International Relations are important to predict the threat of a country in the midst of the uncertainty of increasingly advanced global conditions. Indonesia as a developing country consisting of various archipelagos realizes the importance of the military's ability to protect itself from threats both to the two countries and to the Indonesian people. Indonesia relies on diplomacy and international cooperation to meet the needs of defense defense and technology. One of the main partners in the cooperation is Italy. maritime countries, Indonesia and Italy face similar challenges, such as illegal fishing and transnational crime. This is the result of the diplomacy process carried out so that various agreements are produced. The researcher focuses on the agreement to procure warships considering the importance of defense in Indonesian waters as a vanguard in anticipating various threats to Indonesia. The researcher uses the neorealism approach, the concept of defense diplomacy and cooperation to find out the reason, implementation of the cooperation process, including what is the progress in the cooperation agreement between Indonesia and Italy in the procurement of the warship.