When President Prabowo Subianto landed in Sydney on November 12 for his first official overseas visit since taking office, the symbolism was clear. His choice to make Australia his inaugural state visit signaled early recognition of Canberra’s strategic importance to Jakarta and a desire to reshape one of the Indo-Pacific’s most complex and often fraught […]

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