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Revisiting the Developmental State: Evidence from Vietnam’s Electric Mobility Strategy through VinFast Diphda, Bintang Corvi; Azis, Aswin Ariyanto; Witanto, Refa Defanda; Elnathan, Andrew; Wikantara, I Wayan Raditya; Ramadhani, Yoga
Indonesian Journal of Social Research (IJSR) Vol 8 No 1 (2026): Indonesian Journal of Social Research (IJSR)
Publisher : Universitas Djuanda

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30997/ijsr.v8i1.980

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Existing developmental state scholarship explains how states promote strategic industries through selective intervention, coordination, and upgrading support. However, it pays less attention to how these approaches are adapted when industrial transformation centers on green industries that must simultaneously achieve competitiveness, sustainability, and global market integration. This study examines how Vietnam has structured state support for electric mobility through VinFast. It employs a qualitative desk review of policy and legal documents, incentive frameworks, and corporate and international reports published between 2016 and 2024, using systematic screening, triangulation, and thematic coding aligned with the New Developmental State Model framework. The findings show that Vietnam has framed electric mobility through integrated objectives combining domestic manufacturing expansion, export orientation, and green transition targets, while positioning VinFast as the lead firm responsible for achieving scale and competitiveness. The government has implemented a comprehensive intervention package that reduces investment risk and stimulates demand, including corporate tax incentives in strategic economic zones, import-duty exemptions for components, consumer-side tax and fee reductions for battery electric vehicles, and protective measures for domestic assemblers. Spatial industrial policy and supplier development initiatives further support localization goals. This case contributes to the developmental state literature by demonstrating how contemporary state-led industrial strategies can be organized around green industries. At the same time, it highlights a key governance tension: rapid, firm-centered scaling does not necessarily translate into broader industrial capability development.
Indonesia’s Transition as an Emerging Donor: The Case Of Indonesian AID in SDG-Related Sector Diphda, Bintang Corvi; Wikantara, I Wayan Raditya; Elnathan, Andrew; Witanto, Refa Defanda; Otolomo, Siti Ni'mah Milly; Azzahra, Sarah Marwah; Anwar, Muhammad Rafi
Sosiohumaniora Vol 28, No 1 (2026): Sosiohumaniora: Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora, MARCH 2026
Publisher : Universitas Padjadjaran

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24198/sosiohumaniora.v28i1.70328

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This article examines how and why Indonesia has transitioned toward an emerging donor role in South-South Cooperation through Indonesian AID programs in SDG-related sectors. While existing studies have discussed Indonesia’s South-South Cooperation or foreign aid motives, less attention has been given to how Indonesian AID reflects a broader transition within the contemporary South-South Cooperation landscape. Using a qualitative single case study design and desk review covering the period from 2015 to 2025, this article analyzes policy documents, regulations, institutional reports, gray literature and academic studies. The findings show that Indonesia’s transition occurred through the institutionalization of Indonesian AID, which provides the funding mechanism, legal framework and program modalities for a more organized donor provider role. Indonesian AID programs thus demonstrate how SDG-related sectors serve as the empirical site of this transition. The shift is driven by Indonesia’s rising international status, institutional learning from earlier SSC limitations, the SDGs as a global development framework and strategic adaptation between solidarity and national interests. However, this emerging donor role remains incomplete due to broad sectoral dispersion, uneven monitoring and evaluation, limited impact measurement and continuing tension between SSC principles and strategic objectives. The article contributes to debates on South-South Cooperation by showing that the emerging donor transition is gradual, institutional and still contested.
Co-Authors Anwar, Muhammad Rafi Azis, Aswin Ariyanto Azzahra, Sarah Marwah Bintang Corvi Diphda Elnathan, Andrew Otolomo, Siti Ni'mah Milly Ramadhani, Yoga Wikantara, I Wayan Raditya