Relationship dossier
Indonesia
Philippines
Relationship assessment
A sustained partnership built on maritime boundary cooperation and security coordination
Indonesia toward Philippines
+50Indonesia concluded an agreement with the Philippines delimiting their exclusive economic zone boundary and has cooperated with the Philippine government on maritime security, including coordinated patrols.
Philippines toward Indonesia
+50The Philippines concluded an exclusive economic zone boundary agreement with Indonesia and has cooperated with the Indonesian government on maritime security, including coordinated patrols.
Overall relationship
+50The relationship is underpinned by a strategic partnership, a negotiated maritime boundary agreement, and recurring security cooperation. These arrangements reflect substantive bilateral collaboration and help manage shared maritime and border concerns.
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 Philippines maintain a sustained cooperative relationship, including a strategic partnership and a treaty delimiting their exclusive economic zone boundary. Their governments have also worked together on maritime security and border-area concerns, including coordinated patrols. These arrangements provide concrete foundations for cooperation beyond formal diplomatic ties, although their implementation and breadth across other policy areas are less clear.
Key developments
The governments established a strategic partnership.
Indonesia and the Philippines signed an agreement delimiting their exclusive economic zone boundary.
The two governments began coordinated maritime patrol cooperation.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and consistency of bilateral maritime-security cooperation are unclear.
- The implementation of the exclusive economic zone boundary agreement across operational matters is unclear.