Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives Harry Jenkins has expected to work closely with the newly-elected members of the Indonesian parliament to build a more stable and stronger bilateral relationship, a senior Indonesian diplomat said.Jenkins expressed his hope for the future of inter-parliamentary cooperation when receiving Indonesian Ambassador to Australia and Vanuatu Primo Alui Joelianto's courtesy call on May 27, Minister Counselor for political affairs of the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra Samsu Rizal told ANTARA on Friday.
Rizal said Australia-Indonesia's parliamentary cooperation had been improving over these past few years, featured by joint seminars and the exchange visits of chairpersons and MPs to know more about the respective countries' parliamentary system, but it could be made stronger in the future.
The Indonesian Elections Commission had announced on Sunday the names of 560 members of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR-RI), elected on the April 9 parliamentary elections.
Ambassador Joelianto's visit to Harry Jenkins, the 28th speaker of the House, was the second courtesy call to the leader of Australia's federal parliament since his official assignment to the Canberra post last March.
On May 15, Ambassador Joelianto also visited President of the Australian Senate Senator John Hoog for talks about issues about the bilateral relations, Rizal said.
At this moment, the bilateral relationship was at its best in the government-to-government level but relatively remained unstable in the people-to-people (P-to-P) level due to existing public misperception, he said.
Therefore, Ambassador Joelianto always touched on the importance of strengthening the P-to-P cooperation as a building block for the bilateral relationship at his meeting with the two Australian MPs.
With stronger inter-parliamentary cooperation, the governments would get support for doing their best for the two countries' ties in the future, he said.*) My news for ANTARA on May 29, 2009
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