Developmental Perspectives
Developmental Perspectives is Industrial Policy Lab Indonesia’s flagship article series, focusing on topics related to industrialization, industrial policy, developmentalism, and development economics.
Writers are Research and Policy Fellows of Industrial Policy Lab Indonesia. For any feedback or comments, please share them with us via contact@industrialpolicylab.id.
The Rules-Based International Order is Unraveling, 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.”