Relationship dossier
Indonesia
Vietnam
Relationship assessment
Strategic partnership and regional cooperation coexist with maritime disagreements.
Indonesia toward Vietnam
+40Indonesia has pursued strategic partnership and practical cooperation with Vietnam, including bilateral engagement on maritime issues and collaboration in regional forums. Overlapping maritime claims and encounters involving fishing vessels have also created friction.
Vietnam toward Indonesia
+40Vietnam has pursued strategic partnership and practical cooperation with Indonesia, including bilateral engagement on maritime issues and collaboration in regional forums. Overlapping maritime claims and encounters involving fishing vessels have also created friction.
Overall relationship
+40The relationship combines sustained diplomatic and regional cooperation with practical maritime engagement. Overlapping claims in the South China Sea and related fishing-vessel incidents complicate, but have not displaced, the broader cooperative partnership.
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 Vietnam have developed a cooperative strategic partnership, including regular bilateral engagement and collaboration in regional forums. Their governments have also pursued practical maritime cooperation, although overlapping claims and incidents in the South China Sea remain a source of friction.
Areas of tension
- Overlapping maritime claims in the South China Sea
- Fishing-vessel incidents in disputed maritime areas
Key developments
Indonesia and Vietnam elevated their relationship to a strategic partnership.
The two governments agreed to strengthen maritime cooperation, including through consultations and coordination on maritime issues.
Major uncertainties
- The current implementation and scope of bilateral maritime cooperation are unclear.
- The effect of South China Sea disagreements on practical cooperation is uncertain.