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Indonesia could help bring China and America back from the brink

If President Jokowi and his successors’ approach to regional security becomes more than fence-sitting neutrality, Indonesia would no longer be a small, big country, but a large, big one.

John McCarthyFormer Australian ambassador
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The visit to Australia this week of President Joko Widodo of Indonesia – known as Jokowi – should give us pause to reflect on how we and Indonesia stand with each other and what the future holds.

Truth be told, our relationship with Indonesia has become a mite boring. Never mind. In this business boring is good.

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John McCarthy is a former ambassador to Vietnam, the United States, Indonesia and Japan, a high commissioner to India, and a senior adviser to Asialink.
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