Potential Barriers to Indonesia’s Participation in the International Criminal Court

This thesis is a study on 3 (three) articles of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, namely article 13(b), 98(2) and 16 from the perspective of the Indonesian government. The Indonesian government has planned to accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court for a long time, however has yet doing so. One particular reason that the author obtained from prior interaction with several Indonesian government officials was that the United States, being as one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, is not a party to the Rome Statute. This thesis concludes that an alternative mechanism is favorable to stimulate better trust from the international community, especially non state party to the Rome Statute, such as Indonesia.