George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

We have worked very closely with regional neighbours. In December 2015 Australia and Indonesia held the first Australia-Indonesia Ministerial Council on Law and Security in Jakarta, and that regional council has met on three occasions thus far, most recently in Jakarta earlier in the year, and will meet again at a venue to be announced in Australia in the second half of this year.

Our agencies work with Indonesian agencies in a close and collaborative way, but our cooperation does not merely extend to Indonesia. This is a regional problem and we work with regional neighbours. I recently spoke to the visiting Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia on his visit to Australia and discussed the matter with him, as I did with the Singaporean Minister for Home Affairs, who visited Australia recently. I also raised the issue with—(Time expired)