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"Nowadays, globalization gives impact to security, either national or international because of developments of science, technology, and human movement. There are five main issues in international society as consequences of globalization, which are drugs dealer, small arms trafficking, infringement of intellectual property rights, people smuggling, and money laundering. Furthermore, there is new terminology, called netwar, which is occurred because of the development of information technology and being used to break up the national and international security. Basically, a non-traditional security matter is no/ a new issue. It is just a local issue, which does not get public awareness but globalization has pushed it to come out and sometimes it is believed that it has become a new resource of a global threat."

"The following article discusses the issue of terrorism viewed from the Indonesian foreign policy perspective. The 9/11 tragedy, which highlights terrorism as a new major threat to the international community, has greatly challenged Indonesia in conducting its foreign policy. On one hand, Indonesia's active participation on the U.S.-led "War on Terrorism" is highly demanded. The step needs to be taken by Megawati government as a proof to the international society that Indonesia is never a supporter of terrorists' activities. On the other hand, in executing the foreign policy related to issue of counter-terrorism, the government must act very carefully in order to avoid the pitfalls of negative, domestic sentiments which might endanger the ongoing process of democratization at home and lead to the possibility of becoming a "failed state.""