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View all search resultsDuring their annual foreign and defense ministers' meeting on Aug. 26, the two neighbors pledged to deepen cooperation with a particular view to enhancing security in the Indo-Pacific amid rising global power rivalry and food and energy shocks from the Mideast war.
Beyond formal military alliances, the evolving Japan-Malaysia partnership proves that decades of accumulated trust can be just as strategically valuable as a defense pact in an uncertain Indo-Pacific.
Indonesia and Australia’s joint efforts at sea would target “a full range of maritime threats”, including “those against sovereignty”, human and drug trafficking and environmental crimes, both countries’ ministers said after the 2+2 meeting in Canberra.
While acknowledging that the Singapore-Malaysia deal was a step forward in regional maritime security, several academics in the Riau Islands, which border vital waterways, have bemoaned that Indonesia was not involved in a potential three-way cooperation.
Indonesia is bolstering its maritime security cooperation with Japan after the two countries held a bilateral meeting that reaffirmed their shared goal of maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific amid rising tensions in the region.
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