Opportunities and Challenges of Saudi Arabia’s Soft Power Policies over Indonesia

Ramazan Aydın; Jelang Ramadhan

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Opportunities and Challenges of Saudi Arabia’s Soft Power Policies over Indonesia

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Ramazan Aydın¹^{, *}, Jelang Ramadhan²

¹Marmara University, Istanbul, 34722, Turkey

²Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia

^*Corresponding author. Email: ramazanaydin368@gmail.com

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Ramazan Aydın

Available Online 31 January 2025.

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Keywords: Saudi Arabia; Indonesia; Soft Power; National Interest
Abstract: Saudi Arabia is an important actor in its region and in the global arena with its material and spiritual resources. In order to protect its national interests, the Kingdom utilizes these resources in different ways to be influential both regionally and globally. The fact that Mecca and Medina, which are of vital importance for Muslims, are located within the borders of Saudi Arabia allows it to develop relations with the Muslim world. Especially after the 1979 Iranian revolution, Saudi Arabia has tried to balance Iran by spreading its own Salafi/Wahhabi ideas against Iran’s Shiite expansionism and has aimed to be influential on Muslim states. At this point, Indonesia is important for Saudi Arabia as it is the country with the highest number of Muslims in the world. In addition, it is very important to gain Indonesia’s support in the international arena due to its claim of leadership among Muslim states. For this reason, Saudi Arabia has been trying to influence Indonesia by spreading its own Salafi/Wahhabi ideas in Indonesia through soft power policies. This article discusses Saudi Arabia’s soft power opportunities and challenges in Indonesia.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Strategic and Global Studies (ICSGS 2024)
Series: Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities
Publication Date: 31 January 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6463-646-8
ISSN: 2667-128X
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-646-8_36 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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