Integrasi Nasional dan Hak Azasi Manusia

This article is an effort to explore conceptual relations of national integration as an endeavor toward nation-building and issues related to human rights promotion. Aspects of national integration which might impede effort of human rights protection are examined. These include area of issues as broad as territory, socio-cultural, and world view in the nation-building endeavor. Questions on what kind of preconditions and criteria should be established in the settlement of territory of a nation-state, what kind of socio-cultural conditions should be developed in order to unite a nation-state, and what kind of paradigm should be founded to create and develop shared beliefs, ideas and views of a nation-state are among the one shall be addressed in the article. Finally, it is also inevitable to look at the arrangement of normative logics in world order system, if we are to explore human rights promotion in the wake of (nation-) state sovereignty

Elasticity and Competitiveness of Indonesia's Palm Oil Export in India Market

This study examines the elasticity and competitiveness of Indonsia's palm oil export in the India market, 1990 -2014. The methods used are Error Correction Model (ECM) and Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) approach. The results shows that the price is inelastic in short-term but it is elastic in long-term. The income and exchange rate are elastic in the long-term. There is also a decline in competitiveness in the market India. These findings also demonstrate that palm oil is normal goods and can be easily substituted with the same products of other countries or other vegetable oils. It threatens the Indonesian palm oil competitiveness in the Indian market

Kecenderungan Politik Internasional Kontemporer

Trends in contemporary international polities in the post-cold war era should be observed and learned in the following phenomena: urupolansm of military and political forces under US hegemony, and mulupolansm in international economic forces. The relatively novel sacra-cultural values of the so-called pragmatr-sm and economism are proliferating in response to and alongside with the most recent development of world capitalism. At the same time, actors in the international arena multiplies as the need to solve and manage various problems and issues crosses over the mandate and legitimacy of the state ̢ long considered as the dominant actor in international politics.Agenda to be developed by nations should as well examine and look at carefully issues and problems generated by those aforementioned trends at the international arena. This is to underline the need to not overemphasizing high profile foreign policies, while at the same time neglecting the so-called kw-politics issues. Developing nations in parricularare among the first group to be concerned with as they mostly do not have adequate space to play with in -what Dudley Seers called as̢ their `morn to ma.noezi we. That is the mom to being independent in taking steps, formulating policies, and maneuvering in (or resisting against) the globalized market force

'Governance' sebagai Pengelolaan Konflik

The article explores the notion of understanding governance as part of conflict management, or vice versa, of undustanding conflict management aspects as benefiting from governance concepts and practices. Governance, with its much broader meaning than government, suggests diverse relevant and significant clues, hints and ideas in the context of conflict management endeavors. one of which is the idea to involve larger audiences and stakeholders –beyond the conventional institutions such as governmental bodies– in policy making processes and public discourses. Such comprehension and appreciation of governance concepts and practices is certainly parallel with the conflict management philosophies, concepis and practices which based on and oriented toward integrative, non-formal and non-litigative mechanisms