Recent years have seen dramatic shifts in the nature of
Australian-Indonesian relations, and this in turn has had a great
impact on the strategic partnership that had gradually come into
existence between the two regional powers. Against the backdrop of
rapid strategic, political, economic, social, and technological
changes occurring on a global scale, Australian foreign policy
efforts at cooperation with its largest and nearest Asian neighbor
have changed as well-largely as a result of domestic political
considerations. Reaching a high point under Prime Minister Keating,
defense relations soured considerably and suddenly after 1999.
Singh provides a non-partisan account of the shift from partnership
to cold peace and an examination of how it has affected the
bilateral, regional, and global security environment.
The Indonesian public and political elite have become hostile
toward Australia as a result of her perceived role in the birth of
an independent East Timor. Indonesians are also increasingly
suspicious of Australian intensions toward their own country, with
many believing that Canberra would like to repeat its East Timor
success in Papua, thereby leading to the disintegration of
Indonesia itself. John Howard's pro-Western policies are also
viewed as a return to Australian projection of itself as a Western
outpost on the fringes of Asia. As the strategic cooperation
between the two nations has faltered, it has had tremendous
implications for the defense and security outlook of both powers.
The world cannot afford to ignore this possible threat to regional
stability.
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