Mrs Dewi Setiyaningsih1
1Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia
Biography:
Dewi is an emerging researcher and a lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Science at Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia. She has research interests in the fields of international development cooperation, global governance, and international norms. Several of her article have been published in national academic journals.
Abstract:
International aid is not always based on morality, but also on national interests. Studies on donors by Indonesia to small countries in the Pacific have given rise to studies on Indonesia’s interests behind donors. However, no one has looked at how donors become a state instrument to strengthen the status of its national identity. This article examines the relationship between foreign aid and international status-seeking. Taking Indonesian AID as a case study, it analyses Indonesia’s foreign policy vision behind establishing Indonesian Aid under the Ministry of foreign policy. This explains why Indonesia is eager to be a donor country, while Indonesia still lacks resources for its domestic development agenda. I use the status-signalling theory which explains the state’s status behaviour in international politics. This theory offers some typologies of state status-signalling behaviour. Using primary data from institutions and previous literature studies, this research aims to prove that Indonesian AID indicates the status-signalling behaviour of Indonesia in the realm of international development cooperation. This behaviour concludes with the consumption of giving behaviour. This behaviour projects major power status under the global hierarchy. Thus, Indonesia is in the transition to switching its identity from a developing country to a developed country.
Keywords: international aid, status-signalling, Indonesian AID.