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ustralian Minister for Justice Michael Keenan visited the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters in Jakarta on Tuesday to talk about corruption issues facing the two countries.

'€œIt was a very constructive discussion. I am very pleased to come listen to commissioners to see how this issue [corruption] is dealt with here in Indonesia,'€ Keenan said at the KPK headquarters after a one hour closed-door meeting with KPK commissioners.

Tuesday'€™s visit came after renowned whistle-blower WikiLeaks released a document possibly linking outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and former president Megawati Soekarnorputri to graft in the printing of Indonesian banknotes in Australia in 1999.

Following the revelation, which was deemed '€œhurtful'€ by Yudhoyono, the KPK expressed its willingness to cooperate with Australian authorities to investigate possible graft in the multimillion dollar printing of Indonesian banknotes.

Keenan was quick to deny rumors that the meeting concerned possible cooperation between Australia and the KPK to investigate the case. '€œNot at all. There was no discussion of specific cases. I just came to learn how Indonesia deals with [corruption] issues and to hear a few words from the commission. I hope that the discussion will continue,'€ said Keenan, who was accompanied by Australian ambassador to Indonesia Greg Moriarty.

KPK commissioner Adnan Pandu Praja backed Keenan'€™s statement, saying that Tuesday'€™s meeting was only about exchanging anti-corruption strategies.

'€œAustralia asked us how the KPK implements the people'€™s mandate to eradicate corruption in Indonesia. There was no signing of an agreement, no specific cases discussed and no particular cooperation signed. It was just a sharing of ideas,'€ Adnan said.

Asked about the possibility for the KPK to work with Australian authorities to investigate the money-printing graft case, Andan said speculating on such a scenario was '€œpremature'€.

'€œWhat we did is open up each to other for possible cooperation on corruption eradication [between the two countries] in the future,'€ Adnan said.

In late July, WikiLeaks released a document it claimed was a court order issued by the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne on June 19. In the document, the court bans any publication of information found in court proceedings concerning 17 current and past heads of state in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam and their alleged roles in multimillion dollar bribes. The document grants the same protection for relatives and other senior officials.

Other Indonesians listed in the document included Laksamana Sukardi, a former state-owned enterprises minister and a politician from Megawati'€™s Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).