Australia and Indonesia have come to a treaty-level agreement for defense cooperation that allows Australian and Indonesian militaries to operate from their own countries, according to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday ( Aug 20 ).
” It will be a critical board for our two countries to help each other’s safety, which is vital to both locations, but also to the security of the area that we share”, Albanese told a joint press conference in Canberra with Indonesia President-elect Prabowo Subianto.
Australia and Indonesia reveal the world’s longest sea limit and now work on a number of issues, including protection, people-trafficking and medication smuggling.
According to Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles,” the image really establishes that Australia and Indonesia as the closest of mates have a shared life, but that life is very much defined by deep strategic believe.”
In recent years, Australia has entered into a number of defense agreements, most importantly the US-UK military alliance that irritated China.
At a conference last November, Prabowo declared that Indonesia would maintain good relationships with both China and the US and that it was committed to its non-alignment coverage.