Why Australia will work harder to build ties with Indonesia

“Indonesia is by far our largest trading partner when it comes to exports of Australian wheat. It’s a pretty good relationship at the moment,” Brett Hosking, chair of GrainGrowers, an industry group, and a farmer in Victoria, told the BBC News website. “We have to be sensitive to the cultural uniqueness of each country, so understanding that Indonesia is a largely Muslim country. If we make the extra effort to do so we build a much stronger relationship.”