Relationship dossier
Indonesia
Maldives
Relationship assessment
Indonesia and the Maldives have limited practical cooperation, including a visa exemption for official travel.
Indonesia toward Maldives
+15Indonesia entered into a bilateral visa-exemption arrangement with the Maldives covering diplomatic and official passport holders, facilitating official travel.
Maldives toward Indonesia
+15The Maldives entered into a bilateral visa-exemption arrangement with Indonesia covering diplomatic and official passport holders, facilitating official travel.
Overall relationship
+10The relationship includes a concrete but narrow bilateral arrangement facilitating official travel. The extent of broader or sustained practical cooperation is unclear, and no specific bilateral disagreements are identified in this assessment.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Indonesia and the Maldives maintain bilateral ties and have pursued limited practical cooperation. A bilateral visa-exemption arrangement for diplomatic and official passport holders is a concrete example, though the scope and durability of wider cooperation are unclear.
Key developments
Indonesia and the Maldives agreed to exempt diplomatic and official passport holders from visa requirements.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of bilateral cooperation beyond diplomatic and official travel are unclear.
- The extent of ongoing government coordination between the two countries is uncertain.