Indonesia-Australia: Deeper divide lies beneath AUKUS submarine rift

Amid Jakartas diplomatic shots across Canberras bow over AUKUS, Foreign Minister Marise Payne is travelling in Southeast Asia to reassure the region. This move comes after a volley of increasingly pointed Indonesian concerns about the impact that Australias acquisition of nuclear-power submarines might have on regional security and non-proliferation. But despite the Australian Foreign Ministers best efforts to ease fears in Jakarta and other regional capitals, AUKUS is just the tip of a deep and enduring divide between Australia and Indonesia over the future of power in the Indo-Pacific.