Indonesia's Maritime Policy from Independence to 2019: Political Culture and Maritime Geography

Alverdian explores how a distinct national character of maritime governance has influenced the nature of Indonesia's aspiration to go beyond archipelagic towards a maritime nation, through focusing on the intersection between the nation's political culture, historical changes and geopolitical contexts, which gave rise to the primacy of the theme of unity in the nation's discourse.

The main theme of this research is the three-pillar framework of the Tanah-Air concept, which includes the polit...