{"id":35160,"date":"2025-11-12T13:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35160"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:05:17","slug":"australia-indonesia-agree-to-sign-new-security-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/australia-indonesia-agree-to-sign-new-security-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia, Indonesia agree to sign new security treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Australia and Indonesia agreed on Wednesday to sign a new security treaty, which includes closer military cooperation, the two countries&#8217; leaders said following talks in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Canberra has drawn ever nearer to longtime ally Washington, bolstering its military in an attempt to deter the might of a rising China in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta has walked a more neutral path, wary of drawing too close to Washington and far less willing to needle Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, speaking alongside President Prabowo Subianto at a Royal Australian Navy Base in Sydney, said they had &#8220;just substantively concluded negotiations on a new bilateral treaty on our common security&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This treaty is a recognition from both our nations that the best way to secure&#8230; peace and stability is by acting together,&#8221; Albanese told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian leader said he hoped to visit Indonesia next year to sign the new treaty.<\/p>\n<p>He said the agreement builds on a bilateral defence pact signed in 2024, which pledged closer cooperation in the contested Asia-Pacific region and included provisions for each military operating in the other country.<\/p>\n<p>The new agreement will commit the two countries to &#8220;consult at a leader and ministerial level, on a regular basis on matters of security&#8221;, Albanese said.<\/p>\n<p>It will also facilitate &#8220;mutually beneficial security activities, and if either or both countries&#8217; security is threatened, to consult and consider what measures may be taken, either individually or jointly, to deal with those threats,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Prabowo said the deal committed the two countries to &#8220;close cooperation in the defence and security field&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot choose our neighbours&#8230; especially countries like us,&#8221; he said.\u00a0&#8220;Good neighbours will help each other in times of difficulties,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia and Indonesia agreed on Wednesday to sign a new security treaty, which includes closer military cooperation, the two countries&#8217; leaders said following talks in Sydney. Canberra has drawn ever nearer to longtime ally Washington, bolstering its military in an attempt to deter the might of a rising China in the Asia-Pacific region. Jakarta has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35162,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35160\/revisions\/35162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}