List of ambassadors of Australia to Indonesia

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Ambassador of Australia to Indonesia
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Incumbent
Penny Williams
since 14 April 2021
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Style Her Excellency
Reports to Minister for Foreign Affairs
Residence Jakarta
Nominator Prime Minister of Australia
Appointer Governor General of Australia
Inaugural holder John Hood (Ambassador)
FormationApril 1950
Website Australian Embassy, Indonesia

The ambassador of Australia to Indonesia is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Republic of Indonesia. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and the Embassy in Jakarta is Australia's largest embassy and one of Australia's most important overseas posts. [1] The Embassy is assisted in their work by Consulates in Bali (since 1981), Makassar (since 2016) and Surabaya (since 2017). [2]

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The current ambassador, since April 2021, is Penny Williams.

Posting history

The Chartered Bank Building at Kali Besar West, Batavia, site of the Australian Trade Commission from 1935. COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Het kantoor van de Chartered Bank aan de Kali Besar West Batavia TMnr 10015461.jpg
The Chartered Bank Building at Kali Besar West, Batavia, site of the Australian Trade Commission from 1935.

On 30 August 1933 the Minister for Commerce, Frederick Stewart, secured Cabinet approval for the establishment of several Trade Commissions in the East, with Batavia in the Netherlands East Indies being one of the most likely locations. [3] However a decision to appoint a commissioner was delayed pending the report of the Australian Eastern Mission, Attorney General and Minister for External Affairs John Latham's fact-finding mission to the Far East, which found a dire need for Australian trade representative to improve mercantile connections in the region. [4] [5] Following Latham's return the Australian Government agreed to appoint a new Trade Commissioner, and the appointment of Charles Edward Critchley to Batavia, alongside appointments to Tokyo and Shanghai, was announced on 7 June 1935 by acting Prime Minister Earle Page. [6] Arriving in September, Critchley met with Governor-General Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge and set up offices in the Chartered Bank Building in Tambora, Old Batavia. [7] In January 1938, Critchley was succeeded by Herbert Anton Peterson, who was given the new title of "Australian Government Commissioner", which was changed to remove confusion that the "Trade Commissioner" was merely a commercial representative. [8] Commissioner Peterson served until escaping to Australia a few days after the Japanese invasion of Java in 1942.

Early Australian arrangements to establish diplomatic relations with Indonesia after the Indonesian proclamation of Independence on 17 August 1945 were complicated by the British and Dutch involvement in military activities in Indonesia in the next few years. Australia was dissuaded from establishing a consulate-general in Batavia in 1945 and instead sent a political representative to be attached to the Allied Forces, Netherlands East Indies (AFNEI), the command controlling areas of the Dutch East Indies liberated from Japanese forces. [9] William Macmahon Ball, the Australian Political Representative to the AFNEI, arrived in Batavia on 7 November 1945 and returned to Australia in December 1945. In March 1946 the Department of External Affairs appointed Alfred Deakin Brookes as the new Political Representative. However, his departure in early June, owing to ill health, coincided with the arrival of Justice Richard Kirby, who acted as Political Representative in his absence before returning to Australia on 28 July 1946. Bertram Ballard was appointed as Australian Political Representative with AFNEI on 16 August 1946, as political representative Ballard was advised by Minister for External Affairs, Herbert Evatt directed him to establish informal relations with the Indonesians and to act as Australia's de facto representative to the republican government in Jogjakarta. [9]

The post of Consul-General was created following the departure of AFNEI in late 1946 following the Indonesia-Dutch settlement, and Ballard was formally appointed Consul-General on 5 December 1946 and accredited by the Netherlands East Indies Government on 12 February 1947. He held this appointment until September 1947 when Charles Eaton, the former Consul to Portuguese Timor, replaced him. In April 1950, the Consulate-General in Jakarta was raised to the status of an embassy, with the first Australian ambassador to Indonesia, John Hood, appointed by External Affairs Minister Percy Spender. [9]

List of heads of mission

Eaton as Australian Consul-General to Indonesia, with Sukarno in 1947 P03531.001EatonSukarno1947.jpg
Eaton as Australian Consul-General to Indonesia, with Sukarno in 1947
OrdinalOfficeholderTitleTerm start dateTerm end dateTime in officeNotes
n/aCharles Edward CritchleyTrade Commissioner7 June 1935January 19382 years, 6 months
n/aHerbert Anton PetersonCommissionerJanuary 19383 March 19424 years, 2 months [10] [11]
n/a William Macmahon Ball Political Representative7 November 1945December 19451 month
n/a Alfred Deakin Brookes March 1946June 19463 months
n/a Richard Kirby Acting Political RepresentativeJune 194628 July 19461 month
n/a Bertram Ballard Political Representative6 August 19465 November 19461 year, 31 days
Consul-General5 December 1946September 1947
n/a Group Captain Charles Eaton OBE , AFC September 1947April 19502 years, 7 months
1 John Hood Ambassador of Australia to Indonesia24 June 195019532–3 years [12]
2 Charles Kevin Minister and Charge d'Affaires11 March 195319551–2 years [12] [13] [14]
3 Walter Crocker CBE Ambassador of Australia to Indonesia7 April 195519571–2 years [12]
4 Laurence McIntyre CBE 28 January 195719602–3 years [12]
5 Patrick Shaw CBE 6 March 196019621–2 years [12]
6 K. C. O. Shann CBE 6 November 196219663–4 years [12]
7Max Loveday6 April 196619692–3 years [12]
8 Gordon Jockel CBE 7 March 196919722–3 years [12]
9 Robert Furlonger 1 March 197219752–3 years [12]
10 Richard Woolcott 3 March 197519782–3 years [12] [15] [note a]
11 Tom Critchley AO , CBE 17 May 197819812–3 years [12] [16]
12 Rawdon Dalrymple AO 18 March 198119853–4 years [12] [17] [18]
13 Bill Morrison AO 28 April 198519893–4 years [12]
14 Philip Flood AO 2 February 198919933–4 years [12]
15 Allan Taylor AM 6 April 199319962–3 years [19]
16 John McCarthy AO 199620014–5 years [20] [21]
17 Ric Smith AO 200120031–2 years
18 David Ritchie AO 200320051–2 years [note b]
19 Bill Farmer AO 2005201013–14 years [22]
20 Greg Moriarty August 201020143–4 years
21 Paul Grigson February 201527 February 20183 years [23] [24] [note c]
22 Gary Quinlan AO 27 February 201814 April 20213 years, 46 days [25] [note d]
23 Penny Williams PSM 1 September 2021incumbent1 year, 341 days [26]
^[note a] : Woolcott was Australian ambassador in Jakarta when difficulties over developments in Portuguese Timor, later Timor Leste, came to a head.
^[note b] : There was initially a slight delay in Jakarta before Ritchie's appointment was approved. This was reportedly because of some concerns in the Indonesian Parliament about the possible approach that Ritchie might take towards Indonesian policy in Papua in responding to problems of regional conflict in the province. [27]
^[note c] : On 29 April 2015 the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that Grigson would be recalled to Canberra for consultations following the execution of two Australians in Indonesia who had been convicted of drug smuggling. Grigson returned to his post in Jakarta in early June after being in Canberra for consultations for about six weeks.
^[note d] : In early April 2020, Quinlan temporarily relocated to Australia because of his vulnerability to COVID-19 infections. He was expected to continue to oversee Australian embassy operations in Jakarta from Canberra. [28]

Consuls-General

Bali

Makassar

NameStart of termEnd of termNotes
Richard Mathews22 March 20162020 [29]
Bronwyn Robbins26 June 2020on-going [30]

Surabaya

NameStart of termEnd of termNotes
Chris Barnes9 August 201720 December 2021 [31]
Fiona Hoggart20 December 2021incumbent [32]

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References

  1. ↑ CA 2744: Australian Embassy, Republic of Indonesia [Djakarta/Jakarta], National Archives of Australia, retrieved 11 January 2016
  2. ↑ Bishop, Julie (26 February 2017). "Australia to open new Consulate-General in Surabaya" (Media release). Minister for Foreign Affairs. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  3. ↑ Schevdin, Boris (2008). Emissaries of trade : a history of the Australian Trade Commissioner Service. Barton, ACT: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. p. 47.
  4. ↑ Schevdin, Boris, pp. 50-51.
  5. ↑ "TRADE WITH THE EAST". The Barrier Miner . Vol. XLVI, no. 13, 861 (HOME ed.). New South Wales, Australia. 21 December 1933. p. 5. Retrieved 4 May 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "TRADE". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 30, 399. 8 June 1935. p. 19. Retrieved 4 May 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "TRADE COMMISSIONER IN BATAVIA". The Courier-Mail . No. 635. Brisbane. 11 September 1935. p. 6. Retrieved 25 June 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "COMMISSIONERS". The Canberra Times . Vol. 12, no. 3215. 7 January 1938. p. 1. Retrieved 25 June 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  9. 1 2 3 Metcalf, Karl (2001), "Chapter 2: External Affairs records", Near Neighbours: Records on Australia's Relations with Indonesia, Canberra: National Archives of Australia, archived from the original on 30 August 2014
  10. ↑ "Trade Commissioner For Netherlands India". The Telegraph (SECOND ed.). Queensland, Australia. 15 January 1938. p. 11. Retrieved 25 June 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ "Retirement of Mr. H. A. Peterson". The Canberra Times. Vol. 27, no. 7, 960. 28 February 1953. p. 4. Retrieved 25 June 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Statement of Service: Appointments and Biographies. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Canberra: Australian Government. 1995.
  13. ↑ Beaumont, Joan, "Kevin, John Charles George (1909–1968)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, archived from the original on 22 September 2015
  14. ↑ "Mr. C. Kevin for Indonesia". The Canberra Times. ACT. 6 January 1953. p. 2.
  15. ↑ Way, Wendy, ed. (2000), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and the Indonesian Incorporation of Portuguese Timor, 1974–1976, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, ISBN   0-522-84928-8
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  19. ↑ Farmer, Bill. "Death of Ambassador Allan Taylor, AM" (Press release). [Taylor had been ambassador]... at a challenging time in the bilateral relationship, when Allan's patience, resilience and commitment were crucial in helping to maintain close ties between our two governments.
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  26. ↑ Septiari, Dian (2 September 2021). "Australia's first woman envoy in Jakarta begins term". The Jakarta Post . Williams is the first woman to be appointed by the Australian Government as ambassador to Indonesia
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