ABSTRACT
Suharto's New Order also had a erucial impaet on Indonesia's foreign poliey in its immediate region. Between the late 1950S and the mid-1960s, Sukarno exported instability through policies of Confrontation against West New Guinea, and then Malaysia. After Suharto seized power, Confrontation was wound down. Indonesia's new posture allowed a proeess of reeonciliation within the region that was eemented with the formation in 1967 of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN), which beeame the eornerstone of Suharto's foreign poliey. Within ASEAN, Indonesia was aeeepted as first amongst equals and acted as a low-key regional leader. This eonstructive role bolstered the wider international eredibility of Indonesia's diplomaey.
