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Kemudi
ISSN : 25285580     EISSN : 26229633     DOI : -
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Merupakan jurnal yang dikelola oleh Program Studi Ilmu Pemerintahan Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji, yang diterbitkan dua kali dalam setahun pada bulan Agustus dan Februari dan memuat 8 (delapan) artikel dalam setiap terbitan. Jurnal ini memberikan ruang bagi para akademisi, peneliti dan praktisi yang tertarik dalam pengembangan bidang Politik dan Pemerintahan baik secara Nasional maupun Internasional, serta hasil penelitian dan kajian pada ruang lingkup; Politik, Tata Kelola Pemerintahan, Pemerintahan maritim, Kebijakan Publik, Pelayanan Publik, Kepemimpinan, Teknologi Informasi Pemerintahan, Pengelolaan Wilayah Perbatasan, Pengelolaan Pesisir, Ekologi Pemerintahan, Otonomi daerah, Perkotaan dan Desa.
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Beyond Conservation: Tesso Nilo National Park, Climate Change, and Indonesia's Environmental Diplomacy Purwasandi; Wahyudi, Herry
Kemudi Vol 10 No 2 (2026): Kemudi: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan
Publisher : Program Studi Ilmu Pemerintahan Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31629/kemudi.v10i2.8270

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This article examines Tesso Nilo National Park (TNTN) in Riau Province as a critical case study of the failure of subnational climate and environmental governance in Indonesia. The real-world situation in TNTN reveals a stark gap between diplomatic rhetoric and implementation on the ground. The proliferation of illegal oil palm plantations, massive deforestation, and recurring forest fires have reduced natural forest cover to less than 20 percent, released billions of tons of stored carbon, and eroded critical habitat, including for Sumatran elephants. The study adopts a qualitative case study design focused on TNTN, drawing on policy documents, government reports, NGO publications, and academic literature. The analysis is framed by the concepts of environmental diplomacy, multi-level governance, and climate governance failure. The findings suggest that weak vertical coordination, large-scale land-use changes driven by corporate and local actors, and increasing human-wildlife conflict reveal a systemic failure in translating national and international climate and conservation commitments into local outcomes. Therefore, the park represents a significant gap in Indonesia's environmental diplomacy efforts. In response, this article proposes an alternative, bottom-up model of environmental diplomacy that strengthens local actors through community-based conservation, community-based ecotourism, and broader civil society participation in decision-making.
Repeated Single Candidate Local Elections in Indonesia: Political Party Pragmatism in North Bengkulu and Ngawi Syahid, Imam; Asbudi; Mujiburrahman; Rafdi, Hashfi; Pratama, M. Aviv Adhitya Putra
Kemudi Vol 10 No 2 (2026): Kemudi: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31629/kemudi.v10i2.8281

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The recurrence of single candidate regional head elections in North Bengkulu and Ngawi Regencies in the 2020 and 2024 elections raises questions about the effectiveness of institutional reform in expanding local electoral competition. Although Constitutional Court Decision Number 60/PUU-XXII/2024 lowered the nomination threshold and theoretically opened wider opportunities for political parties to nominate alternative candidates, this study shows that such institutional change did not automatically alter the configuration of electoral contests in the two regions. This study uses a qualitative method with a descriptive approach, utilizing secondary data from official election documents, Constitutional Court decisions, laws and regulations, academic publications, and media reports related to regional head elections in North Bengkulu and Ngawi Regencies. The analysis employs the perspective of political party pragmatism and the office-seeking orientation in coalition formation. The results of the study show that the recurrence of single-candidate elections was shaped by the consolidation of political party support into large coalitions behind dominant candidates who possessed strong political capital, incumbency advantages, wider political networks, and higher electability. Under these conditions, political parties, including smaller parties, tended to prioritize electoral victory and access to power rather than promote alternative candidates. As a result, coalition building became increasingly pragmatic and contributed to the weakening of electoral competition across two consecutive electoral periods. This study shows that the recurrence of single-candidate elections is better understood not merely as an institutional issue, but as a reflection of pragmatic political party behavior in local electoral politics.
Kishida’s Maritime Turn: Japan’s Defensive Defense and Gray-Zone Balancing in the East China Sea Aspin Nur Arifin Rivai; Dian Putri Pratiwi
Kemudi Vol 10 No 2 (2026): Kemudi: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31629/kemudi.v10i2.8301

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Japan’s postwar defensive orientation has been recast into a more active maritime strategy under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Existing studies have traced Japan’s broader security normalization, alliance strengthening, and legal-institutional change, yet they have given less sustained attention to the maritime operational logic through which those shifts were translated into balancing in the East China Sea. This article examines how Japan’s maritime defense policy evolved in response to persistent Chinese gray-zone coercion around the Senkaku Islands. Using a qualitative single-case design, it draws on Japanese strategic documents, defense reports, maritime-security data, and relevant academic literature. The analysis combines William D. Coplin’s decision-making framework with Ariel González Levaggi’s maritime-strategy typology. The article finds that Japan’s policy shift was driven by the interaction of three variables, external pressure from China, growing domestic acceptance of defense strengthening, and the fiscal-technological capacity to implement strategic change. These conditions produced a layered defensive-defense posture expressed through coastal defense, sea denial, selective sea control, and limited regional power projection. Kishida inherited an earlier trajectory of reform, then accelerated its maritime consolidation and anchored it in an East China Sea strategy suited to prolonged gray-zone competition under constitutional restraint.