From Fragility to Resilience: Ethical Dimensions of Multidimensional Policy in Indonesia’s Global Conflict Response

This article explores how Indonesia's public policy responses to global conflict pressures reflect a transition from institutional fragility to resilience, emphasizing not only strategic adaptation but also ethical transformation. Departing from conventional technocratic assessments, the study applies a qualitative normative approach to examine strategic documents, humanitarian diplomacy, and policy discourse from 2019–2024. Through policy and narrative analysis, the research identifies three tiers of response: immediate survival strategies, systemic adaptations, and normative value shifts. Findings reveal that Indonesian policymaking increasingly incorporates ethical elements, such as dignity, justice, and solidarity, not as rhetorical tools but as guiding principles in design and justification. These values are grounded in localized ethical systems including Pancasila, communal responsibility, and postcolonial diplomacy. The study offers a conceptual contribution by synthesizing state resilience theory with ethics of care and public value governance, and a normative argument that policy design must embed moral commitments to be legitimate and sustainable. Practically, it proposes a framework for value-based policymaking applicable to other Global South contexts. Indonesia thus emerges as a hybrid model of institutional and ethical resilience, demonstrating that resilience is not merely the capacity to survive disruption but the capacity to uphold human dignity within it.