オーストラリアとアジア新国際秩序の形成-1960〜70年代の対インドネシア食糧援助

This paper analyses the rapid expansion of Australias foreign aid to Indonesia during the late 1960s and 1970s in the context of how Australias foreign policy towards the countries of Asia took shape. The paper argues that humanitarian, commercial and international relations interests converged to shape Australias rapidly growing food aid to Indonesia after 1966. Food aid alleviated food shortages and famines in Indonesia during the 1960s. It also supported Australian firms in maintaining their share in the growing market for wheat-based products in Indonesia, in competition with US wheat producers and the US PL480 program. And food aid allowed Australia to expand its foreign aid to Indonesia rapidly after 1966, in order to bolster improved relations with the new government of Indonesia. These improved relations were one of the elements of Australias active role in the shaping of the international order in Asia, particularly in Southeast Asia.