Triple Helix model in Indonesian defenses system: A conceptual framework

Triple Helix is a merger of models of government, academics and business world in their collaboration towards a specific goal. By application of this Triple Helix model configuration the Management of a country's defense will be certainly stronger. The Triple Helix is made powerful since it combines politics and finances of the government, along with the power of the industrial world's businesses. Current technology resulting from academic research ensure capabilities to the industrial world. However, the triple helix model alone does not adequately describe a systemic collaboration, as it still requires further detailed elaboration with other scientific instruments. So a very clear modeling and description may be accomplished through an interconnected circuit loop. This chapter describes the three problems that have plagued Indonesian defense system of the government, industries and education, respectively Shrinking Defense Capabilities, Cost Center of Strategic State Owned Enterprise and Education R & D potential waste phenomenon. With the method of system thinking, these three problems will be analyzed to reveal their structural cause, so a holistic solution could be brought to simultaneously resructure and solve all problems. It is a combination of the three previous scientific studies looking for a future triple helix model with the ultimate goal of strengthening the Indonesian defense system. The solution offered is a model of thinking system, i.e. Triple Helix in New RI's Defense System with Maritime Defense Vision that can break down and explain how integrated solutions could be made out of the complex system as present in nature's challenge.