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The Australia Indonesia Legal Update Conference held in Jakarta on Wednesday (13/11/24), (Photo : Australian Embassy) - 

VOInews, Jakarta : The Australian Embassy in Jakarta hosted the Australia Indonesia Legal Update Conference, organised by the University of Indonesia, in partnership with Monash University and six leading Indonesian law schools.

This prestigious event gathered more than 100 distinguished legal experts, practitioners, business representatives and policy makers to explore topical legal developments impacting both countries. Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Legal, Human Rights, Immigration, and Penitentiary Affairs, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, provided the keynote speech, and Vice Minister of Law, Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej, also spoke at the conference.

According to a release received by Voice of Indonesia in Jakarta on Thursday (14/11/24), the conference aims to foster meaningful dialogue and collaboration between Australia and Indonesia, with sessions focused on topics such as criminal justice reforms, trade and investment and energy transition. 

“This significant conference showcases the strong partnership between Indonesian and Australian education institutions in the legal sector,” said Gita Kamath, Australian Chargé d’Affaires to Indonesia. “This partnership is underpinned by strong and enduring institutional links, and close connections between our people.”

For over a decade, Australia has been supporting Indonesia’s legal and justice reform initiatives by fostering government-to-government cooperation, sharing technical expertise and working together to strengthen public institutions.

In 2023 Monash University established partnerships with several leading Indonesian universities (UI, UNPAD, UGM, UNHAS, UNSRAT, UNAIR, UPH) through the Monash University Law Indonesia Alliance (MULIA). This partnership aims to advance collaboration among the member institutions//VOI

The join exercise between Indonesia and Australia held in Banongan beach, Situbondo-East Java Indonesia. (Photo : CPL Janet Pan) -  

VOInews, Situbondo : The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) conducted an amphibious landing at Banongan Beach, Indonesia on 13 November during Exercise Keris Woomera.

This amphibious beach landing was the largest and most complex combined joint exercise Australia and Indonesia have conducted together.

During the exercise, tanks, ships, fighter aircraft, landing craft, attack helicopters and approximately 2,000 personnel from both militaries worked together after an amphibious landing on Banongan Beach.

Exercise Keris Woomera highlights the ongoing cooperation between Australia and Indonesia, strengthened by the recent signing of the Australia-Indonesia Defence Cooperation Agreement—the most significant defence agreement in the history of the bilateral relationship.

According to a release received by Voice of Indonesia on Wednesday (13/11/24), the exercise Keris Woomera is part of Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2024, Australia’s largest military engagement activity in the region.

“Over the last week Australia and Indonesia have been working together on a large-scale rehearsal, practising a range of activities from transferring forces from ship to shore, to humanitarian and disaster relief evacuation scenarios,” said Captain Chris Doherty RAN, Commander Amphibious Task Force of the ADF.

“Exercise Keris Woomera demonstrates that the ADF and TNI are ready to work together to deal with shared security challenges in our region,” said Colonel Judd Finger, Commander Landing Forces of the ADF. “We have demonstrated our ability to safely bring our Navy, Army and Air Forces together to conduct amphibious operations from surface to shore and air to shore.”

The combined joint amphibious exercise will be followed by a humanitarian evacuation and disaster relief evacuation scenario, and a combined joint live fire exercise in the coming days//VOI

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