Track: Case Studies

Abstract

This article examines Indonesia's role as a middle power in the Katowice Climate Change Conference or COP-24. To voice developing countries’ interest, Indonesia has pursued three important negotiation points toward developed countries in order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement namely financial support, technology transfer, and capacity building. To overcome tension between developed and developing countries, Indonesia has mobilized its middle power status particularly in the importance of developed countries to fulfil their commitments to developing countries. During the negotiation, Indonesian negotiators seek to use the middle power position symbolically as a negotiating power and become representatives of other developing countries to reach a negotiating agreement at COP24. This can be seen in Indonesia’s ability to create a narrative of symbolic power in the form of language, and identity, which is able to convince developed countries to agree with Indonesia's demands. This article then contributes to the middle power literature by bringing the discussion of symbolic power into the discussion.

Keywords

climate Change, Multilateralism, symbolic power,