Just before Christmas 1981, Indonesia’s foreign minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja asked to meet Australia’s ambassador to Jakarta, Rawdon Dalrymple. In the course of their meeting, Mochtar asked why some people in Australia “had such a hostile attitude towards Indonesia”. He thought the hostility derived from fear, and recalled that when he had spoken on behalf of … Continue reading We Can't Afford To Be Ignorant On Indonesia