The Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) was an Australian government department that existed between November 2001 and January 2006.
Australia and Indonesia have established diplomatic relations since 1949,when Australia recognised Indonesia's independence. Historically,contact between Australians and Indonesians began as early as the 16th century prior to the arrival of the Europeans,through Makassan interactions with indigenous Australians on Australia's western and northern coasts.
Peter Richard Woolcott is an Australian public servant,diplomat and the former Australian Public Service Commissioner. He was previously the Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Woolcott has served as the Australia's High Commissioner to New Zealand,the Australian Ambassador for the Environment,the Australian Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva,the Australian Ambassador to Italy,the Deputy Head of Mission in Jakarta,and the Consul-General in Honolulu.
John Philip McCarthy is a former Australian diplomat.
Richard Arthur Woolcott was an Australian public servant,diplomat,author,and commentator.
Dennis James Richardson,is an Australian retired public servant and diplomat who served as the Secretary of the Department of Defence from 2012 to 2017 and Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2012. He was previously the 10th Director-General of Security from 1996 to 2005 and the 19th Ambassador of Australia to the United States of America from 2005 to 2010.
Justin Lance Lee is an Australian public servant,currently serving as High Commissioner to Malaysia since July 2021. Lee was the Australian Ambassador for Climate Change between 2012 and 2014. after having served as Australia's High Commissioner to Bangladesh between 2008 and 2012. Lee served as deputy head of mission to Indonesia from 2015 to 2017.
Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat is a former Indonesian diplomat. He served as an official in the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs for over two decades.
Richard Campbell "Ric" Smith is a former senior Australian public servant and diplomat. He served as the Australian Ambassador to China (1996–2000),Australian Ambassador to Indonesia during the time of the 2002 Bali bombings (2001–2002),and Secretary of the Department of Defence (2002–2006). In April 2009,Smith was appointed as Australia's Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Dr. Chaiyong Satjipanon is a former Thai Ambassador to the United States. Prior to representing Thailand to the United States,he represented Thailand in Geneva,Sydney,Seoul,Rome and Jakarta,
Brazil and Indonesia established diplomatic relations in 1953. Both are large tropical countries endowed with rich natural resources,Brazil and Indonesia possess the largest tropical rain forest of the world that contains the world's richest biodiversity,which gave them a vital role in global environment issues,such as ensuring tropical forests protection. Both countries lead the list of Megadiverse countries with Indonesia second only to Brazil.
Andrew Edgar Francis Metcalfe,is a former senior Australian public servant and policymaker who was Secretary of the Department of Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry until 4 August 2023 when he retired. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. He was a Partner at Ernst and Young,Canberra in its Government and Public Sector team from 2014-19. Metcalfe was appointed by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC MP to the role of lead reviewer of the Family Relationships Services Program on 15 November 2023,with a 30 June 2024 deadline by which to complete the review.
David Alexander Hollway is a former senior Australian public servant and policymaker. He retired from the Australian Public Service in 1996 to head the 2000 Summer Olympics.
David James Ritchie is an Australian diplomat and a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). His last appointment was as Ambassador for Australia to Germany,a post to which he was appointed in 2013.
Stephen Arthur FitzGerald is a former Australian diplomat. He was Australian Ambassador to China,its first to the People's Republic of China,between 1973 and 1976.
Gregory Laurence Moriarty,is a senior Australian public servant and diplomat,and the current Secretary of the Department of Defence since 4 September 2017. He was previously the Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Moriarty has been Australian Ambassador to Iran from 2005 to 2008,Australian Ambassador to Indonesia from 2010 to 2014,the inaugural Commonwealth Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 2015 to 2016,and the International and National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister.
Penny Williams is an Australian public servant and diplomat. She is the current Australian Ambassador to Indonesia. From 2007 to 2010,Williams was Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia.
Mahendra Siregar is the chief of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) of Indonesia. He previously served as Deputy Foreign Minister and was formerly the Indonesian Ambassador to the United States. On 25 October 2019,he was appointed as the deputy minister of foreign affairs supporting Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi in the second Jokowi cabinet appointed two days earlier on 23 October. Earlier,he had been appointed as Ambassador to the US by President Joko Widodo in 2018. He took up his post in Washington DC in early 2019. Mahendra is a respected economist in Indonesia who has held various senior positions within the Indonesian bureaucracy.
