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• Inaugural Indonesia Australia Maritime Dialogue

  Australia and Indonesia held the inaugural Indonesia Australia Maritime Dialogue in Jakarta on Thursday 11 December 2025.

• Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2025 Begins in Indonesia
  Australia’s flagship regional engagement activity, Indo-Pacific Endeavour (IPE), commences in Indonesia this week with Australian Defence Force personnel arriving in country.

• Joint Statement, Australia-PNG-Indonesia Trilateral Defence Ministers' Meeting
  Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Defence, the Hon.  Dr Billy Joseph MP, Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, the Hon Richard Marles MP, and Indonesia’s Minister of Defence General (Ret.) Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, met today in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, for their inaugural Trilateral Defence Ministers’ Meeting.

• Renewed Indonesia–Australia Statistics Partnership to Strengthen Evidence-based Policymaking
  Australia’s Chief Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Dr David Gruen and Indonesia’s Chief Statistician Statistics Indonesia (BPS), Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Bali yesterday.

• Export Finance Australia and Indonesia Eximbank Sign a Memorandum of Understanding to Strengthen Bilateral Cooperation
  Export Finance Australia (EFA) and Indonesia Eximbank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation and unlock new opportunities for trade and investment across Southeast Asia. 

• Australia and Indonesia Museum-to-Museum Collaboration
  The Australian Embassy joined the Western Australian Museum and the Indonesian Heritage Agency (IHA), to co-host a workshop focused on museum management and curatorial practices at the National Museum of Indonesia in Jakarta on 25–26 November 2025. This follows an earlier workshop held in August 2025 at Fort Vredeburg Museum in Yogyakarta.