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I. Introduction
Indonesia's foreign policy is actually a part of overall government policy aimed at achieving national interests. In carrying out its foreign policy, the Indonesian government firmly holds on to the principles of free and active (prinsip bebas aktif) based on Pancasila and Undang-undang Dasar 1945, of which ideas are dedicated to the country's national interests. In other words, Indonesia's foreign policy is virtually a component of national political policy inseparable from the actual condition of the country.
The principles free and active foreign policy was initially conveyed by Vice President Mohammad Hatta in 1948, when the realm of international relations was bustled by a rivalry between two blocks of ideologies; democratic-liberal bloc led by the United States and socialist-communist bloc led by the Soviet Union.
To be elaborate, free and active foreign policy, by principal, does not mean a passively neutral, equidistance, or "taking-neither-side" politics.......

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