SBY’s Australia Trip: Symbolism over Substance

Yuli Ismartono
Tempo English executive editor.

IT was a long overdue state visit that promised much.  But when the dust finally settles, and the flurry of laudatory media reports are filed away, the question that comes to mind is what concrete results came out of it all?

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s trip to Australia last week was a true media fest in Canberra and Sydney, the two cities he visited. After all, his last callthere was

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