Topic: 2025 – Responsibility of International Organizations
Country: Indonesia
Delegate Name: Colton Kolka
Country: Indonesia
Delagate: Colton Kolka
School: Williamston High School
Committee: Legal
Topic: Responsibility of International Orginizations
International Organizations (IOs) are absolutely vital to maintain diplomacy throughout the globe. The United Nations (UN) is the most crucial by far, working to uphold peace between member states. The UN has a strict responsibility to preserve peace and human rights all while protecting national soverignty. This begets a delicate balance of where and when to step into crisis or other situations and not step on other nations’ responsibilities and jurisdiction. Other IOs follow in similar footsteps helping keep the peace but not overreach its power. Orginizations like ASEAN (Assosiation of Southeast Asian Countries) or MERCOSAUR in South America deal with regional interests which helps ensure misconduct happens less as regional interests are mainly shared. When an IO does overstep however, there must be reprucusions that fit the specific overreach.
Indonesia is a founding and active member of ASEAN and as Indonesia represents 41% of ASEAN’s population, it takes a leadership role. Indonesia has helped by acting as a bridge for diplomacy within ASEAN and other partners. Indonesia’s activeness in IOs stresses the importance of having them as the conflict that arises can be dealt with as an orginization and thus resolved through the IO. Indonesia is also an important member of the non-aligned movement (NAM) which has allowed for relations between global powers and other countries to happen, but still has the opportunity to act in favor of national interests. Indonesia has taken this in practice and currently has working relationships with the United States and China but aligned with neither, giving Indonesia freedom to protect national interest.
Indonesia believes that the rule of law is essential and it is up to the organization to uphold it and the member states’ responsibility to strengthen it. Indonesia also believes that education of citizens is crucial when it comes to legal responsibilities and laws. If international law is understood by the global public, it can be effective. Indonesia affirms that nobody is above the law and if a line is crossed, the perpetrator(s) must be held accountable according to the rule of law upheld. International organizations have a clear responsibility to promote peace and diplomacy and their members have the responsibily to particpate in upholding and regulating the IO’s action they are a part of. Indonesia looks to work with its allies in ASEAN as well as other willing countries who hold the same values.
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