Talk of relocating the Indonesian capital is just that – talk.

Making a judgement in the present about events in the past is fraught with difficulties.

The military and police are far from a spent force in Indonesia.

Campaigns for piety threaten Indonesia's secular identify, but the future of Islam in Sunni-majority areas is not Islamic State.

An arbitrary end of year deadline looms, yet comments by Indonesian officials should give Australian negotiators pause.

Tensions are high. But when in the history of Indonesian Papua have they not?

Ternate's history is a reminder that globalisation and 'free markets' are not always exactly the same.

We need a more concerted effort to warn intrepid Australians that some countries see drugs as an existential threat.

Borrowing at a low interest rate might look attractive but, in the long term, the government - and its citizens - pay through higher cost of finance.

The Jokowi Administration is not the first Southeast Asian government to use name changes to obscure adverse developments on the water in the South China Sea.

The proposed ban on HTI looks very much like an abuse of state power for political aims.

Even if Trump’s toll road serves only the resort, in this specific instance it will not be running afoul of Indonesian law.

This offer is just the latest example of cooperation between Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia.

Jakarta's governor Ahok has been jailed for blasphemy, but that doesn’t mean Islamists are on the march in Indonesia.

An unclear policy framework, resistance to community housing expansion, and refugees being unsupported and unable to work continue to impede progress.

Two back-to-back decisions have left Indonesia more religiously polarised than ever. One was politically inept, the second deeply unjust. Both may come back to haunt the Jokowi government.

Jakarta election signals rising intolerance and demonstrates the influence of hard-line Muslim groups, spelling trouble for President Jokowi.

The drastic infrastructure deficiency can be viewed as an opportunity.

Jokowi’s main interest is economic cooperation. As he joked in Sydney: 'Let’s talk more about economics, I don’t want to talk a lot about politics – it gives me a headache'.

The topics likely to be covered in bilateral talks reflect Jokowi's domestic-first agenda.

Turnbull and Jokowi differ in their understanding of the risks that Chinese assertiveness poses.

While its neighbours in Southeast Asia have become increasingly autocratic, Indonesia continues to quietly consolidate its democratic institutions.

We are so accustomed to hearing ministers spruik the close relationship between Indonesia and Australia, it can be easy to forget that tensions still simmer below the surface.

Indonesia cannot rely on its politicians to fight radical Islam and intolerance.

Ahok faces a blasphemy charge after quoting a Quranic verse while campaigning in the Thousand Islands in late September.

Finding common ground in the Australia-Indonesia bilateral relationship is getting easier these days, driven by two shared strategic realities: China is coming; and the US is going.