Perbandingan Diplomasi Ekonomi Indonesia dan India di Kawasan Afrika

Abstract

Diplomasi ekonomi merupakan aspek vital dalam relasi bernegara. Saat ini negara cenderung melakukan diplomasi ekonomi untuk meningkatkan perdagangan dan juga membuka akses pasar baru ditengah berkembangnya tren proteksionisme. Kawasan Afrika merupakan salah satu emerging economy market yang menjadi tujuan diplomasi ekonomi negara-negara. Indonesia dan India yang memiliki relasi historis dalam kerangka Konferensi Asia Afrika juga mengorientasikan diplomasi ekonominya di kawasan Afrika. Tulisan ini kemudian akan mengkaji bagaimana praktek diplomasi ekonomi kedua negara di kawasan.Recently, economic diplomacy has been a vital aspect in the relation between countries. State mostly carry through the economic  diplomacy to increase the trade and also attempt to entering new market as the international dynamics filled by protectionsim measures. African countries then developed to what called as emerging economy market and being most intended destination to economic diplomacy practice. Meanwhile, Indonesia and India who have historical relations within the Conference of Asia and Africa also oriented their interest to the region. This paper then examines how is the economic diplomacy practice in both countries to Africa.