The three agreed to promote defense cooperation, just weeks after Jakarta reached a deal with Beijing to boost military ties following joint naval drills east of Taiwan.
The defense chiefs of Japan, Australia and Indonesia held their first-ever trilateral talks Wednesday, just weeks after an agreement by Jakarta and Beijing to boost military ties following joint naval drills east of Taiwan. In the phone talks between Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and Indonesian defense chief Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, the three agreed to promote both bilateral and trilateral defense cooperation, according to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo.
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