Australia and Indonesia will increase cooperation in defence training and strengthen joint efforts against terrorism and cybercrime, following high-level bilateral talks in Jakarta.
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Gary’s career in Australian foreign policy can only be described as stellar, having worked at the top of each of its three pillars: the region, the alliance, and the rules-based order.
Jakarta is Asia’s greatest geopolitical prize. But its foreign-policy reflexes are long outdated.
Indonesia appears to be persevering with plans for its grand infrastructure rollout, likely to cost over US$400 billion, despite the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the archipelagic nation.
Amid the great U.S.-China tech divide, Southeast Asia and its fast-growing digital markets have become a main battleground for the digital behemoths of both superpowers.
Indonesia has moved its Afghanistan diplomatic mission from Kabul to Pakistan, its foreign minister said after its air force evacuated dozens in the wake of the Taleban’s seizure of power.
The Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto defended the budget bid by claiming he was simply doing his job; that he had received an instruction from the president to draft a 25-year ‘grand design’ for defence.
The need for a new economic agenda is well understood by Campbell, U.S. National Security Council Indo-Pacific coordinator.
How are Australian and Indonesian students, researchers and institutions weathering the COVID-19 storm, and how can we continue to work together when we can’t go abroad?
The announcement marks a convergence of interests with the U.S., but that does not preclude strong economic ties with China.
Fifty-four years after the ASEAN Declaration on Aug. 8, 1967, Indonesia plays a strategic role in the region’s economic integration.
AEGIC welcomes the establishment of Katalis, a new economic cooperation hub between Indonesia and Australia which will help drive grain trade between the two countries.
A proposal to waive a range of intellectual property measures for COVID-19 vaccines and other health technologies will come before the WTO this week, and Australia must support it.
The pandemic has highlighted deep-rooted problems in health service. Medical workers voicing out their concerns have put governments on the defensive.
Southeast Asia’s largest country should seek complementary improvements in its relations with the two major world powers.
Indonesia opposed a new UN General Assembly resolution to formally embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs argued that there is no urgency to reform R2P norms as the prevailing ones are sufficient.
