The Rules-Based International Order is Eroding, Indonesia Must Accelerate its Reindustrialization

“The only alternative is vulnerability. It is vulnerability to commodity price shocks, to becoming passive actors in other countries’ trade wars, to losing strategic autonomy bit by bit in a world increasingly governed less by rules but by strength. After all, to slightly rephrase Thucydides, we must do what we can, so that we do not suffer what we must.”