00:00 Richard Miles is in Jakarta to meet Prabowo Subianto.
00:06 They are both defence ministers, but last week Mr Subianto won Indonesia's presidential
00:11 election.
00:12 Richard Miles is the first minister to come to Jakarta and officially congratulate him.
00:17 Now the pair were talking about finalising a new defence agreement between the two countries,
00:24 but the arrival of a boat of Pakistani asylum seekers on the WA coast earlier this week,
00:30 a boat that had come via Indonesia, that too was discussed.
00:35 The basis on which we approach this is that it is a challenge which is being shared by
00:40 both Australia and Indonesia and that the cooperation that we engage in is enormously
00:46 valuable to both countries and that we place that as the highest priority.
00:52 Australia gives Indonesia millions of dollars every year to help with counter people smuggling
00:57 operations.
00:59 Richard Miles says that Indonesia has high visibility on the issue, but he declined to
01:04 say whether or not the Indonesian side knew the route or the process that those men from
01:10 Pakistan used to get to Australia recently.
01:14 He nonetheless though said that Australia and Indonesia will work even closely together
01:19 on the issue of people smuggling in future.
01:22 For more information visit www.fema.gov.au/covid19
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