The Indonesian presidential election next month will be a marker in Asia's larger quest for strategic coherence.
Under President Joko Widodo, the country has embarked on a foreign policy which is designed to translate the geographical reality of the largest archipelago in the world into the political and economic potential of a maritime power. The connection would appear to be obvious and natural, but it escaped the attention of his immediate predecessors.
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