Indonesia foreign policy

Beijing's wooing of Southeast Asia's largest nation counsels a renewed focus on maritime Southeast Asia from Tokyo.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's trip to Jakarta is a good opportunity for Canberra to reset relations with its largest Southeast Asian neighbor.

The trip will be the first by an Australian leader since Scott Morrison attended President Joko Widodo's inauguration in late 2019.

The Lowy Institute survey report, its first since 2011, found the public is more concerned with domestic than international challenges.

Despite their geographic distance, the two nations have increasingly complementary defense and security interests.

The attendance of Russian President Vladimir Putin at October's G20 summit would likely be met with a mass Western boycott.

From Myanmar to the Natuna Islands, Jakarta's foreign policymakers had their hands full this year.

The Indonesian Defense Minister is exercising a growing influence on his country's foreign orientation.

Indonesia took over the leadership of the G-20, so its agenda for the multilateral group becomes even more important in 2022.

There are signs that the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the Indonesian president's view of his country's international role.

The two nations could soon hold joint military exercises on Australian soil for the first time.

Southeast Asia's largest country should seek complementary improvements in its relations with the two major world powers.