001 : Indonesia Parliamentary Diplomacy on Palestine Issue
While in final year of university, I have project to publish my research about Indonesia's parliamentary diplomacy and choose to publish in ICOBAR 2022.
"Multilateralism is the most effective way to overcome common challenges. I call upon parliaments, as representative of the people, to overcome differences, be bridge-builders and act together toward achieving peace and economic recovery"
Joko Widodo
Source: The Jakarta Post
What is parliamentary diplomacy?
Parliamentary diplomacy is diverse international activities activities by parliamentarians to improve mutual understanding between countries, help each other to improve government control and public representation, and to increase democratic legitimacy of intergovernmental institutions (Weisglas and Boer 2007). It is important to know that parliament is not always about domestic affairs. Actually, It's more than that. They also have task to support the government in foreign affairs.
"Indonesia has key strengths in parliamentary diplomacy in promoting Palestinian independence including a large population of 270 million people, being the world’s largest Muslim majority, and the third largest democracy after India and USA. These features make Indonesia’ voices in international politics relatively distinct and pivotal."
Hon. Dr Mardani Ali Sera