Australia has an interest in minimising such tensions and conflicts due to its basic curiosity in stability in the Asia-Pacific region and because of its direct bilateral relationship with Indonesia. In bilateral terms, of specific concern in press and public perception is the likelihood that economic problems in Indonesia might result in the arrival of Indonesian refugees or unlawful migrants on Australia’s shores. There can also be a sense of exasperation that not solely does the ageing President Soeharto present no signal of retiring from his submit, however he’s also unwilling to even focus on the difficulty of his successor or how a transition of energy might take place. Despite the clear current of subterranean discontent, nonetheless, there’s little indication of moves within elite parts of Indonesian society to remove President Soeharto or to press strongly for reform. The beginnings of unrest in the streets and universities of main cities and regional towns have but to achieve sufficient momentum to be anything resembling a major problem to the Government.
The current SNA is twenty years old and is now being reviewed by statisticians and economists from nationwide administrations and international organisations. It does this by presenting the outcomes of sensitivity …