Tagged with Indonesia

Until recently, Australia-Indonesia relations were seen as being at historic highs under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. However, after ten years in power the Indonesian constitution prevents the man known as SBY from serving another term in the top job.Australia’s diplomatic relationship with Indonesia has gone worse following the revelations about Australian spying on the President […]

Indonesia is a shining light for liberalIslam but, as Colin Brown and Ross Taylor point out in an article for Weekend West Perth, has some way to go. Colin Brown isan adjunct professor at the GriffithAsia Institute, Griffith University andRoss Taylor is president of the WAIndonesia Institute. Read the full article (PDF 402kb)

Despite terrorism, drink spiking and a reversal in the moral high ground, Australians can’t resist Bali. Colin Brown, Adjunct Professor for the Griffith Asia Institute, discusses the changing relationship between Australia and Indonesia since Schapelle Corby’s imprisonment in 2004. Read the full article ‘Indonesia changed while Corby was behind bars’ in The Age (published Monday […]

Dr Evi Fitriani, head of the International Relations department, University of Indonesia who recently participated in the The Asian Century Futures Initiative: Australia-Indonesia Dialogue on the 19 November writes an opinion piece in the Jakata Post about the tensions between Australia and Indonesia. You can read the full article here.