Australia will double to A$20 million ($15.4 million) its anti-terrorism assistance to Indonesia as part of efforts to deepen coordination in fighting militants, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Tuesday. Downer said the money would cover a five year period and would be partly spent on building cooperation between the Australian Federal Police and their counterparts in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. “We want to keep supporting the Indonesian government, the Indonesian police, the Indonesian intelligence services and of course the people of Indonesia,” Downer told reporters after meeting Indonesia’s police chief, General Da’i Bachtiar. Downer is making a short visit to Jakarta after attending the opening of a two-day international conference in central Java that focused on religious moderation in Southeast Asia. Full Story
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