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| Julia Gillard will travel to Indonesia next month to discuss ways of combating people-smuggling and terrorism. | Julia Gillard will travel to Indonesia next month to discuss ways of combating people-smuggling and terrorism. |
| The prime minister will meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on 5 July to discuss a number of political, security and commercial issues. | The prime minister will meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on 5 July to discuss a number of political, security and commercial issues. |
| The talks, which are part of the annual Indonesia-Australia leaders' meeting, will canvas issues around education, trade, climate change and transnational crimes such as drug trafficking. | The talks, which are part of the annual Indonesia-Australia leaders' meeting, will canvas issues around education, trade, climate change and transnational crimes such as drug trafficking. |
| They will also cover ways of stopping people-smuggling and counter-terrorism. Gillard will be in Indonesia on 4 and 5 July and will visit Jakarta and Bogor. | |
| The announcement followed a challenge by the opposition for the prime minister to directly engage Jakarta on how to reduce the numbers of asylum seekers arriving in Australian waters. | |
| The deputy opposition leader, Julie Bishop, on Wednesday urged Gillard to travel to Indonesia and hold discussions with Yudhoyono on ways of combating people-smugglers. | |
| The prime minister said she had already held a number of meetings with him and accused the opposition of insulting Indonesia with its policy of towing back asylum seeker boats. | The prime minister said she had already held a number of meetings with him and accused the opposition of insulting Indonesia with its policy of towing back asylum seeker boats. |
| The trade minister, Craig Emerson, said the talks had been long planned and would include issues other than asylum seekers, such as the live cattle trade. | |
| "This is actually the third meeting at leaders level," he said in Canberra on Thursday when asked why the talks were being left until late in the government's term of office. | |
| "The time is actually set by the Indonesian authorities." | |
| Emerson says the two leaders were likely to discuss asylum seekers because it was a regional problem that could only be addressed by a regional solution. | |
| Indonesian authorities were working with Australian agencies on intercepting boats and providing intelligence on people smuggling operations. | |
| Emerson pointed out the difficulty of surveillance in Indonesia, an archipelago of 19,000 islands. | |
| "You can't actually monitor and provide surveillance over activities across such a broad expanse of land and sea," he said. | |
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