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Australian ambassador Paul Grigson meets Kalla to say farewell
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Closer ties: Australian Ambassador to Indonesia Paul Grigson (second left) attends a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of an Australia-funded waste water treatment plant in Palembang, South Sumatra, on Nov.2. The event was attended by South Sumatra Governor Alex Noerdin (third left), Palembang Mayor Harnojoyo (left) and the Public Works and Public Housing Ministry's Cipta Karya director general, Sri Hartoyo (fourth left). (Antara/Nova Wahyudi)
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ustralian Ambassador to Indonesia Paul Grigson paid his last official visit to Vice President Jusuf Kalla before concluding his duty in the country next month.
“I will return to Australia by the end of this year and this is my last official meeting with Pak Kalla after my three-year tenure in Jakarta,” Grigson said as quoted by Antara after the meeting.
The ambassador said he and the Vice President touched on several topics during their meeting, including Indonesia-Australia bilateral relations on politics, economy and education.
“The Vice President was also interested in opportunities to improve human resources through training, education, skills upgrading [programs] and tourism. So, we discussed all this together,” he said.
Ambassador Grigson is a senior diplomat at the Australian Foreign Affairs and Trade Department. He started his job as the country’s ambassador in Jakarta in January 2015. He is very active in publishing his activities in Indonesia on his Twitter account.
He was Australian ambassador to Thailand from 2008 until 2010 following his service as an ambassador to Myanmar from 2003 until 2004. (saf/ebf)
