Asia:NZ Track II Newsletter

APEC 2020 got an outing in the Asia:NZ Track II Newsletter edited by Andrew Butcher. I have included an edited version here which includes some interesting commentary by The Lowy Institute on the recent elections. Many of you will remember Allan Gyngell who heads The Lowy.

Editorial

This month we have a strong international flavour to the newsletter. We’ve delayed this month’s Track II newsletter by about a week so we could get fresh off-the-ground commentary about the Australian election results and their impact on the Asia-Pacific region from the Lowy Institute’s Dr Malcolm Cook. Also from Australia, Meileng Tam

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Media Clips on President Yudhoyono's Keynote address

Hi again.

The keynote speech by President Yudhoyono also got plenty of media coverage - both Australian and Indonesian.

Major Australian newspaper like The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian reported on the speech, commenting on its impact of Australia-Indonesia relations.

And well known Indonesian newspapers like Kompas reported on it as well as detik.com.

But I can't tell you what they've said about it due to my lack of Bahasa Indonesian, so for those who can, please feel free to have a read and share it with us!

Thanks!

Keynote address from the president of the Republic of Indonesia

President of IndonesiaWe had the privilege to listen to a keynote address from H.E. Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia at the opening dinner of the Apec2020 meeting in Sydney.

This was a an unexpected surprise and the first taste of many interesting conversations we had during the two days in our meetings.

Here is a link to the president's keynote address.

Preparing our new home

asialink logo newThis is our first post. Just setting up our new virtual home.

Asialink's Apec2020 is a virtual followup of the conversations we started in Sydney on September 2007.

"Apec2020 a conversation for leaders" is an initiative of Asialink

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