(14 May 2025)
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Jakarta, Indonesia – 14 May 2025
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1. Royal Australian Air Force aircraft taxiing at Halim Perdanakusuma Airbase
2. Various of honor guard lining up in formation
3. Tilt up from weapons in hand to faces of soldiers
4. Motorcycles guards passing by
5. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese walking down aircraft stairs
6. Indonesian officials greeting Albanese, including Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto
7. Pan left from honor guard troops to Albanese walking accompanied by Airlangga UPSOUND marching band
8. Albanese getting in car
8. Car departing
STORYLINE:
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touched down in Jakarta on Tuesday as he kicked off a three-day trip to Indonesia, his first overseas tour since winning a decisive election victory earlier in the month.
The official agenda will commence on Thursday, with a ceremonial welcome at the Presidential Palace hosted by President Prabowo Subianto.
This visit underscores the importance of the strategic partnership between Indonesia and Australia in the Indo-Pacific region.
Albanese’s center-left Labor Party won a second three-year term in an emphatic election victory.
Newly-elected Australian prime ministers typically make their first bilateral visit to Asia, usually Indonesia.
But Albanese’s election rival Peter Dutton, leader of the conservative opposition, had proposed breaking from tradition by making his first overseas trip as prime minister to the United States to strike a better tariff deal with President Donald Trump.
Australia was hit during the election campaign with a global-minimum 10% tariff on exports to the U.S. despite trading with its bilateral free trade partner at a deficit for decades.
Media reports last month that Russia had told Jakarta it wanted to base long-range warplanes in Papua, the most eastern Indonesian province, were also raised as a security issue during the election campaign.
Indonesia has told Australia that no such Russian base would be allowed.
Albanese will depart for Rome on Friday to attend the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV.
AP video shot by Andi Jatmiko
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