Indonesia and Australia: time for a step change

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08 March 2010The relationship with Indonesia is one of Australia’s most important but it is still not on a firm footing, argues Fergus Hanson. Government-to-government ties have been strengthening but relations are focused around a mostly negative set of security-related issues. Business-to-business links are underdone and public perceptions are in a poor state. Even incremental improvements will be hard to make without dramatic leadership gestures to provide a much needed jolt to the relationship. This Policy Brief offers four suggestions for lifting the relationship up a notch.

Fergus Hanson outlines the main argument of this paper in the Australian.

Publication typeReport
Publisher TypeAPO Member, Think tank
CoverageAustralia
Permanent URLhttp://apo.org.au/node/20646
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