Indonesia's foreign policy in the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) and Joko Widodo's era have their own strengths and weaknesses. SBY's foreign policy tended to be outwardlooking, which was marked by promotion of soft power, high politics, and leveraging Indonesia influence in global stage. Meanwhile, Joko Widodo's foreign policy is more inward-looking in that it focuses more on domestic sectors. Problems will arise if a country carries out its foreign policy in an unbalanced manner. Development in the global and regional strategic environment requires a collective response achieved in multilateral forums. This makes cooperation and active participation of a country in international forums become important. This paper aims to analyze Indonesia's foreign policy under SBY and Joko Widodo to find out the strengths and weaknesses of both foreign policies. The author has also provided a foreign policy recommendation that combines both inward and outward-looking perspectives in its performance. They are made in the form of reclaiming Indonesia's leadership in ASEAN to make the region a zone of peace, freedom, and neutrality (ZOPFAN), preventing foreign powers infiltration, maintaining ASEAN countries sovereignty, and curbing pragmatic and unilateralist actions in response to strategic environmental dynamics. These are important to ensure the achievement of Indonesia's national interests. In simple terms, outward-looking policies are adopted as a tool to achieve national interests that benefit the Indonesian people (inward-looking).

Globalization brings together both mobility upheaval and democratization in technology for every state, organization, and people around the world. These phenomena make information, technology, and networking which a long time ago become state domain are today accessible for everyone. It gives a leeway for non-state actors which used to be powerless can speak louder in present day. However, this likely rejoice phenomena sometimes produce another side effect. The leeway also gives relatively easy access for certain non-state actors to achieve power that in the same time endanger world order. These non-state actors are terrorist groups which today possess great power, energized by globalization and democratization of technology, to balance the power of states. They utilize globalization and democratization era to organize, create image, build network, fund, and disseminate their activities around the globe. This study aims to analyze the rise of terrorist groups threats in today globalization and democratization era and in the same time examine the declining of state roles in international stages. This study uses descriptive qualitative method and using Globalization, Soft Power, and Balance of Power theories to dissect and analyze those phenomena. Several recommendations will be drawn from the analysis to contribute in making a robust and comprehensive international cooperation to combat terrorist groups.