Desi Anwar
Senior journalist Desi Anwar can be reached at www.desianwar.net and http://quotidian.desianwar.net

ON the recent bilateral conference on Australia-Indonesia relations questions were asked by both governments as to why, while government-to-government relations between the two countries have never been closer, the people-to-people relations lag behind and still be colored by misperceptions, misunderstandings and even lack of interest.