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Liam Gammon

Widodo needs to make G20 agenda resonate on the home front

The Indonesian president has invested a good deal of political credibility in the success of the summit and failure would now be a national embarrassment.

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A keen eye for where national economic self-interest lies has been at the heart of the process of international economic integration and the institutions designed to further it throughout the Asia-Pacific region over the decades.

If there’s to be fresh energy in international integration and co-operation, it will be found in new coalitions of developing countries that seek to mould it to suit their domestic growth and economic security needs.

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Liam Gammon is a research fellow in the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and an editor at East Asia Forum (www.eastasiaforum.org) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific.

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