ALASAN FILIPINA MENDUKUNG PEMBENTUKAN PAKTA KEAMANAN AUSTRALIA, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES (AUKUS) PADA ERA RODRIGO DUTERTE

This study analyzes the reasons for the Philippines' support in the Rodrigo Duterte era for the formation of Australia, United Kingdom, United States (AUKUS). Using James N. Rosenau's Foreign Policy Adaptive Theory and explanatory-qualitative methods, this study explains the Philippines' reasons for its support for AUKUS as a form of adaptation to the external and internal environment. This study found that there are three factors that are the reasons for the Philippines to support AUKUS, such as external factors, namely increasing competition between the US and China, China's aggressiveness in the SCS which threatens the Philippines national security, then internal factors that can be found in the Philippines' problematic foreign policy and also the negative sentiment of the people. The Philippines towards China due to the worsening national security conditions, then the last is Duterte's pragmatic leadership factor where support for AUKUS is a rational decision because there are strategic actors who can balance China's power and maintain regional stability.