FRENCH MULTI-TRACK CULTURAL DIPLOMACY TO INDONESIA THROUGH PRIVATE SECTORS
Abstract
France is one of the most modern countries in the world,
with vast development and technology as well cultural heritage they
possessed. The emergence of cultural diplomacy is taken account by
many developed countries such as France. This research will try to
elaborate concept of cultural diplomacy, multi-track diplomacy and
national interest to answer question why French government
maximize private sectors to support the multi-track diplomacy in
Indonesia in case of Printemps Francais 2012 to 2016. Method that
will use in this research is qualitative methods where the data use is
primary and secondary data. Secondary data is collected from
books, journal, literature, and information from Internet that related
to the topic. Primary data obtained from in-purposive sampling
through in-depth interview with related person in the field. The
results show that French government needs support on the budget to
implement Printemps Francais so it maximize the involvement of
private sectors. Printemps Francais also become the medium to
facilitate French product in Indonesia.