1 No. 170 ISSUE: 2021 ISSN 2335-6677 RESEARCHERS AT ISEAS – YUSOF ISHAK INSTITUTE ANALYSE CURRENT EVENTS Singapore | 28 December 2021 Stuck in Second Gear: Indonesia’s Strategic Dilemma in the Indo-Pacific Evan A. Laksmana* US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on the Biden Administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy at the Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta on 14 December 2021. OLIVIER DOULIERY, POOL, AFP. *Evan A. Laksmana is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He was previously a Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellow at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and Senior Researcher with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta, Indonesia.