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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Aisyah Llewellyn

What’s at stake as Australia’s Albanese visits Indonesia?

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong attend a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Akasaka Palace state guest house in Tokyo, Japan, May 24, 2022 [File: Issei Kato/Pool via Reuters]

Medan, Indonesia – Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong are due to arrive in Jakarta on Sunday in a sign that the country’s newly-elected Labor administration wants to breathe new life into Australia’s relationship with its closest neighbour.

There is hope that Wong in particular, who was born in Malaysia, will be instrumental in ushering in a new era of Indonesia – Australia ties.

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