The first round of last week’s Indonesian Presidential election, being counted as News Weekly goes to press, will have important implications for Australia.Indonesia is Australia’s largest neighbour, with a population of over 200 million people. It is the largest Muslim nation in the world, and since September 11, 2001, attention has been focused on al Qaeda’s Indonesian affiliate, Jemaah Islamiah, which perpetrated the Bali bombing in 2002.Indonesia suffers powerful centrifugal tendencies, with…
