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Essay On Australia And Indonesia Relationship

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Australia and Indonesia are one of the closest neighbouring countries, and even though they have had several issues between each other, they are still managed to promote a good relationship between them, yet it has been proven that Australia and Indonesia are difficult to forge a stable and productive relationship as the national interest of Australia and Indonesia have been conflicted from the last seven decades, regardless of which party has been controlling there in Canberra (8). Initially their relation has been apparently stimulated by the case of execution of Bali Nine ‘co-ringleaders’ Andre Chan and Myuran Sukumaran (6). As well as, the other reason that affects their relationship is the geographic closeness between the two countries, …show more content…

(10). Even though time and again Australia said that how important is Indonesia’s friendship is to them, still there is such a continuous complicated relationship between them, apparently both the countries have a history of political misunderstandings. Their relationship has been described as a roller coaster ride as it went throw a lot high and lows, especially when Jokowi got the presidency were defined as a large extent of confliction of attitudes that Yudhoyono, the president of Australia held. There have been several disputes in the Australian-Indonesian relationship and that has left a bad mark on their relationship in the last decades, one of these disputes is a dangerous incident that added a negative surface to Indonesia’s reputation among the Australians police, as Australia has been exposed to a significant aggression from a group of Indonesian extremists such as 'Jemaah Islamiyah' or other Indonesian terrorist groups, which leaded to murdering of more than ninety Australians in the prior

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