By Patrick Walters*t
No country is more important to Australia than Indonesia. In 2019, Paul Keating’s now famous dictum, first enunciated 25 years ago, has assumed even greater salience as China emerges as a truly global power and regional political developments threaten to undermine Southeast Asia’s hard-won economic advances.
The biggest challenge for the incoming government in Canberra is to address the yawning trust deficit with Jakarta.
