China-Indonesia People-to-people exchanges in the New Era: Mechanisms, Current Situation and Challenges

Abstract

People-to-people exchanges are the public opinion basis for China and Indonesia to carry out
cooperation in various fields, and are also an important cornerstone for the two countries to build a
community with a shared future. Bilateral and multilateral high-level dialogue mechanisms provide an
effective platform for people-to-people exchanges. The overall improvement of China-Indonesia relations,
deepening of political mutual trust and close economic cooperation have laid a realistic foundation for
bilateral people-to-people exchanges. In the new era, cooperation of bilateral people-to-people exchanges
have achieved fruitful results, mainly in education, science and technology, sports, youth, tourism and
digital fields. At present, the China-Indonesia people-to-people exchanges’ mechanism continues to develop
and the areas of cooperation continue to expand, forming a pattern of multi-level exchanges between GO
and NGO. At the same time, the deepening of people-to-people exchanges still faces challenges such as
Indonesia’s internal factors, insufficient people’s exchanges, and the Indo-Pacific geopolitical structure.