Indonesia officially became a full member of BRICS on Jan 6, as announced by Brazilian foreign ministry. While Indonesia”s accession to BRICS has sparked debates at home, the decision by the Prabowo Subianto administration should be acknowledged as a strategic move to strengthen Indonesia’s position in global geopolitics.
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, chairman of the National Economic Council, emphasized that Indonesia is too big a country to rely on any one economy. Jakarta has asserted that joining BRICS aligns with Indonesia’s policy of engagement with other regional and global mechanisms and platforms such as the G20, the Asia-Pacific…