Global South and BRICS: Why Indonesia does not join BRICS?

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Department of Regional Studies, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The idea of Indonesia joining BRICS came up more than a decade ago. Since 2011, analysts have proposed Indonesia as one of the candidates to join BRICS. Since 2011, Indonesia has participated in some BRICS meetings, and in the past two years, the issue of Indonesia's formal accession to BRICS has been revived and raised with the support of actors such as China. With the possibility of Indonesia joining BRICS increasing again in July 2023, Indonesia accepted the invitation to participate in the 2023 BRICS Summit. The President of this country. Joko Widodo, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and other Indonesian officials went to Johannesburg to participate in this summit. But, Indonesia did not show a serious desire to join BRICS. The question of this article is: Why Indonesia has no desire to join BRICS, despite its extensive economic, political and institutional capacities? The hypothesis is that Indonesia intends to become the fifth best economy in the world based on the 2045 plan. In order to achieve this goal, it should be in the framework of multilateralism and accept the principles and norms of the international system. To investigate this issue, which is done with the qualitative research method, first, the relationship between BRICS, Global South and Indonesia and the capacities that exist in BRICS for Indonesia will be discussed, and then the reasons for Indonesia not joining BRICS will be investigated.

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حوزة موضوعی: بریکس

Scope: BRICS

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Journal of Countries Studies
Volume 2, Issue 2
Special issue of BRICS
2024
Pages 331-351

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  • Receive Date: 22 January 2024
  • Revise Date: 17 February 2024
  • Accept Date: 17 February 2024

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