<![CDATA[This research conceptualizes Indonesia’s Kemitraan Negara Berkembang (KNB) Scholarship Program as an epistemic infrastructure that challenges the Western-centric foundations of international relations (IR) and reconfigures South-South cooperation (SSC). Anchored in constructivism, Global South theory, decolonial epistemologies, and pluriversal diplomacy, the study adopts a qualitative design using document analysis, alumni narratives, and autoethnographic reflection. The findings demonstrate that KNB operationalizes a non-aligned, post-hegemonic vision of global order by facilitating cross-cultural academic mobility, legitimizing indigenous knowledge systems, and cultivating scholar-diplomats as non-state agents of diplomacy. The study concludes that KNB Diplomacy strengthens Indonesia’s normative leadership and offers a replicable framework for ethical, plural, and transformative international cooperation grounded in epistemic justice.]]>
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