Riefqi Muna, “Securitizing small arms and drug trafficking in Indonesia”, in Mely Caballero-Anthony, Ralf Emmers and Amitav Acharya (eds), Non-Traditional Security in Asia: Dilemma of Securitization. Ashgate Publishers, 2006. ISBN: 0 7546 4701 3
This book analyse the security issues confronting Asia are both complex and diverse. Given the increasing trend towards an expanding security agenda beyond the military dimension of inter–state relations, this volume provides an extensive study of emerging non-traditional challenges to this region. New realities and new challenges have come to the fore including environmental degradation, illegal immigration, infectious diseases, transnational crime, poverty and underdevelopment.
Drawing upon the concepts of securitization and de-securitization, this book brings together regional perspectives from across Asia to examine how these challenges are perceived and managed. It is a valuable contribution to both security and Asian studies and will be ideally suited to those interested in security studies, international relations and development studies.
In this book I contribute a chapter on Indonesia, especially looking at the aspect of securitization of Small Arms and Drug Trafficking as case study in transnational security threats. In this chapter, I argue that the theory of ’securitization” (Copenhagen School) is lacking its operationalisation. The theory did not pay attention to the political landsacape of securitizing process which is very crucial in determining the behavior of securitizing actor and its outcome. Securitization/ de-securitization as policy framing requires a democratic of political system –otherwise, there is a risks of being ‘abused and misused’ of the concept by the regime on behalf of security for the benefit of the regime and not to protects the people.
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