
‘Australian Attitudes towards Indonesia’ (2013) Canberra: Newspoll. ‘Australia, Indonesia Agree to Joint Probe’ (2002) ABC, 16 October. ‘Australia Looks Inward as Conservatives Take Over’ (2013) Channel News Asia, 8 September. ‘Australia in the Asian Century: White Paper’ (2012) Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.

‘Australia Has Just Trashed the Perception of Indonesia’ (2013) Scoop, 29 June. ‘Australia and Indonesia Signal Intent to Collaborate in Defence Industry’ (2012) Jane’s Defence Weekly, 5 September. ‘Australia and Indonesia Militaries Participate in the Inaugural Bilateral Peacekeeping Exercise, Garuda Kookaburra’. ‘Australia-Indonesia Annual Leaders’ Meeting’, Commonwealth of Australia, Google Scholar ‘Australia’s National Security Strategy’ (2013) Canberra: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. ‘Australia’s Education Partnership with Indonesia (2011–2016)’, AusAid, ‘Australia-Indonesia: Time for a Closer Future’. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kemlu), IFPDisplay.aspx?Name=BilateralCooperation&IDP=56&P=Bilateral&l=en This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īlatas, Ali (2006) ‘Different Societies, Shared Futures’, Jakarta Post, 6 July.Īlford, Peter (2010) ‘Anti-Terrorism Role for Indonesian Army’, The Australian, 19 October. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Nonetheless, since the post-New Order reformasi (reform) period, and its relatively high turnover of presidents, fluctuations in the relationship have been more evident. But sometimes you might wish for a little more stability, a few more moments of calm.’ 2 However, as argued by Jamie Mackie, 3 looking back at the history of Australia-Indonesia, it was in fact quite stable for long periods of time, even though fluctuating sharply at certain points, such as the early high point in 1948–49 when Australia supported the independence of Indonesia against the Dutch, and a low point during Indonesia’s Konfrontasi (confrontation) during 1963–66 against the United Kingdom and Malaysia.

The ride is never boring, and in a bizarre kind of way it is predictable. Any rise is followed inevitably by a fall. 1 As Colin Brown put it, ‘… nothing so characterizes the phenomenon as a car on a roller-coaster. The Australia-Indonesia relationship has often been characterized by both sides as a roller-coaster ride.
