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President Prabowo Subianto (left) and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese react as a piece of paper blows off their lectern during a press conference on Nov. 12 on board HMAS Canberra in Sydney, Australia. (Reuters/Hollie Adams)
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ndonesia and Australia have agreed to step up their security cooperation through a new treaty that mandates more frequent leader and ministerial-level consultations, a move described by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as “historic” during President Prabowo Subianto’s whirlwind visit to Sydney.
Navigating regional tensions was on top of Prabowo’s agenda during his one-day visit to Sydney on Wednesday. Jakarta officials said it was in response to Albanese’s earlier trip to Jakarta in May, a day after his reelection as prime minister.
In Sydney, Prabowo boarded the HMAS Canberra at the Garden Island Naval Base for a vessel inspection as well as talks with Albanese.
Albanese, speaking alongside Prabowo in a press briefing after their talks, said they had "just substantively concluded negotiations on a new bilateral treaty on our common security".
While details of the treaty remain unclear, Albanese said it would commit Australia and Indonesia to intensify consultations between leaders and ministers.
It will also require them “to identify and undertake mutually beneficial security activities, and if either or both countries' security is threatened, to consult and consider what measures may be taken, either individually or jointly, to deal with those threats”, he said.
Albanese said that the agreement took inspiration from a previous security pact between Canberra and Jakarta, signed in 1995 by then-leaders Paul Keating and Soeharto to institutionalize security cooperation through regular consultations and intelligence sharing.
