Indonesian nuclear proliferation - contemporary

Michael S. Malley, 'Prospects For Nuclear Proliferation In Southeast Asia, 2006-2016', The Nonproliferation Review, (2006), 13:3, 605 – 615.

“In tandem, these two trends – Indonesia’s growing energy demand and closer
technical cooperation with Iran – have the capacity to produce an environment in which the number of nuclear-trained personnel in Indonesia grows rapidly to support a domestic nuclear power industry, while domestic political forces encourage collaboration between Indonesian and Iranian counterparts who may not share Indonesia’s official and well established opposition to nuclear proliferation.”

“[Indonesia’s] own determination to develop nuclear power for civilian purposes, and its customary determination to resist outside intervention, may lead it to take positions that ultimately facilitate wider proliferation networks. Both scenarios suggest that U.S. government officials ought to ask not just whether countries are likely to proliferate, but how people in those countries might be drawn into regional and global proliferation networks.”pp. 610-612

Indonesia, Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations & Regimes, Center for Non-Proliferation Studies.

Countries of Strategic Nuclear Concern: Indonesia, SIPRI.

10 June 2008