The 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. (0)