Istana Merdeka, Jakarta, 2-11-2010

Joint Press Conference between President RI and PM Australia

 

TRANSKRIPSI
KETERANGAN PERS BERSAMA
PRESIDEN REPUBLIK INDONESIA
DENGAN
PERDANA MENTERI AUSTRALIA JULIA GILLARD
ISTANA MERDEKA, 2 NOVEMBER 2010



<b>Presiden Republik Indonesia</b>
<i>Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,</i>

Yang Mulia Perdana Menteri Julia Gillard,
Para wartawan yang saya cintai,
Hari ini, Indonesia mendapatkan kehormatan kunjungan Perdana Menteri Australia, atas undangan saya, Perdana Menteri Australia wanita pertama dalam sejarah politik di Australia.

Kami telah melaksanakan pertemuan bilateral yang sangat produktif, penuh dengan semangat untuk meningkatkan hubungan dan kerja sama di antara kedua bangsa dan kedua negara.

Hubungan dan kerja sama di antara Australia dan Indonesia sekarang baik, terus berkembang, dan kami sepakat untuk terus meningkatkan kerja sama itu di masa depan.

Kami membahas beberapa isu bilateral dan juga isu regional dan internasional. Isu bilateral, antara lain, yang kami bahas adalah kerja sama di bidang penegakan hukum dan keamanan, termasuk kerja sama di dalam menangani <i>peoples smuggling. </i>

Kami juga sepakat untuk melanjutkan kerja sama menghadapi kejahatan trans-nasional yang lain, termasuk <i>counter-terrorism</i>. Khusus berkaitan dengan, kami juga, paling tidak Indonesia, menyampaikan perlunya kerja sama di dalam mengatasi <i>Montara oil spill</i>, agar masalah lingkungan bisa kita cegah kerusakannya, dan kemudian perlu mendapatkan kompensasi bagi yang berhak menerimanya.

Di bidang ekonomi, investasi, dan perdagangan, saya sampaikan perkembangannya baik. Tahun lalu, total perdagangan mencapai 6,7 milyar dolar Amerika Serikat. Tahun ini, semester pertama saja sudah mencapai 4,4 miliar dolar atau naik 22%. Oleh karena itulah, untuk kepentingan kedua negara, kami sepakat untuk memikirkan terbangunnya <i>comprehensive economic partnership</i> antara kedua negara, agar capaian perdagangan yang sudah baik begini bisa ditingkatkan lagi.

<i>Comprehensive economic partnership</i> bukan hanya perdagangan saja, tetapi juga investasi dan lain-lain. Investasi Australia juga baik di Indonesia. Tahun lalu saja, itu mencapai 4,8 miliar dolar Amerika Serikat. Saya koreksi, 4,8 miliar itu kumulatif hingga tahun 2009.

Kerja sama di bidang pertanian juga kami bahas, untuk meningkatkan produksi dan produktivitas pertanian Indonesia.

Kerja sama di bidang <i>people-to-people contact</i> juga kami bahas, terutama di bidang <i>educations</i>. Dan saya mengucapkan terima kasih kepada Australia atas bantuan yang besar kepada dunia pendidikan di Indonesia selama ini.

Saya juga mengajak Perdana Menteri Australia untuk meningkatkan kerja sama di bidang kepemudaan, olahraga, dan juga <i>tourism</i>.

Dan kerja sama di bidang <i>climate change</i>, yang selama ini berjalan dengan baik, terutama pengelolaan hutan, sepakat untuk terus kita lanjutkan. Di bidang <i>regional and international issue</i>, saudara-saudara, kami bertukar pikiran tentang pentingnya membangun <i>regional architecture</i> yang tepat di kawasan Asia Pasifik.

Indonesia berpendapat bahwa kawasan Asia Pasifik harus dijaga kedamaian, stabilitas, dan keamanannya. Kawasan ini juga harus tumbuh perekonomiannya dengan baik. <i>People-to-people contact</i> juga harus berkembang. Itulah pilar-pilar dari <i>regional architecture</i> yang kita bangun dewasa ini ke depan.

Saya juga berterima kasih kepada Australia yang aktif untuk berpartisipasi dalam Bali Democracy Forum. Saya berharap terus berpartisipasi dalam forum yang penting itu untuk saling berbagi pengalaman tentang demokrasi di negara-negara Asia utamanya.

Yang berikutnya lagi, Pacific Island Forum penting, dan saya berterima kasih kepada Australia yang juga berperan secara konstruktif dalam Pacific Island Forum itu. Indonesia ingin menjalin hubungan yang lebih baik lagi dengan negara-negara di Pasifik Barat Daya.

Australia dan Indonesia juga <i>member of the G-20</i> dan APEC. Kami bersepakat untuk terus berkolaborasi, menjalin kerja sama di dua forum tersebut.

Minggu depan, kami akan bersama-sama di Seoul dan juga di Yokohama dalam forum G-20 dan APEC. Dan saya senang bahwa <i>insya</i> Allah, di Korea dalam G-20, isu <i>development</i>, isu pembangunan juga akan diberikan porsi yang tepat.

Itulah yang dapat saya sampaikan. Sekali lagi, pertemuan kami sangat produktif, dan saya persilakan Yang Mulia Perdana Menteri Julia Gillard untuk menyampaikan penjelasan kepada pers.

<b>Perdana Menteri Australia </b>
<i>Thank you very much, Mr. President.
Thank you, firstly for your invitation to me to visit your country. I wanted to come here early in March, priorly this prime minister, to demonstrate my personal commitment to make it sure that our already strong strategic relationship continues to grow.

Today, I have had the opportunity to say to the President, that the Australian people have passed their condolences to human of the people of Indonesia, on their lost of life and damage taken by the recent natural disasters, that have impacted on the Indonesian people, and I know that this is taking so much of the President’s personal time.

I was pleased to be able to advice Mr. President today, that we will be increasing our assistance for recovery by 1.1 million dollars, taking it to 2.1 million dollars. We are two nations that have had strong partnership in the past when each of us had faced natural disasters, and as someone who comes from the State of Victoria, I came personally thank to President and the people of Indonesia for their support and Victoria faced devastating bush fires.

At today, we have had the opportunity to talk through a comprehensive range of bilateral, regional, and global issues. I have indicated to the President, that our relationship is going strong and continuous over the past decade. That he’s addressed in March to the Australian parliament was a goldenship moment in that relationship, taking it to a new level and making it even stronger.

I am pleased that today, as our relationship strengthened, we have been able to agree to have two countries entering a comprehensive economic partnership. One, I am not only comprehend the spirit that thrive liberalization that deals with the whole range of economic issues, that bring our countries together, including investment, business-to-business links, and capacity building. I think we better could decide development for our two countries.

I have also spoken to the President today about Australia’s gratitude to him and to Indonesia for their work on counter-terrorism, a remarkable progress that’s been achieved in this nation, and we very much thank the President and the Indonesian people for that. We know that it is not going without cost. In particular, we thank some police and security force members who have lost their lives in this effort. We are very grateful for it.

I’ve also indicated to the President in our discussion today that marked in the live is that the future of two countries will be determined largely by what is happening in the schools of each of our nations today. Consequently, I am pleased to be able to announce, that the Australian government will invest half a billion dollars over five years in further assistance for school education in Indonesia. This will enable the construction of 2.000 new schools, and it will enable 1.500 town Islamic schools to be brought up to accreditation standard, to make the national standard of Indonesia, very pleased to be able to make that announcement today.

We also have talked about the regional questions that we face, questions of trans-national crime, including questions of people smuggling. I have thanked the President for the work that is being down here in Indonesia to address people smuggling, and thanked him for his personal support of criminalizing people smuggling in Indonesia. We have agreed to continue dialogue on the questions of addressing people smuggling on regional solutions, regional protection, framework in processing center toward the Bali process in which we both have leadership roles, and I thanked him for that indication.

We’ve also had the opportunity today to talk about the new regional architecture with the East Asia Summit, and with the US and Russia becoming full members of that summit for next year on, that summit of course will be held here in Indonesia under the President’s leadership. I’d very much look foward to those discussions, the success significant change for the region, bring so great of years engagement into the region which we have discussed today.

We’ve also discussed the prospects and outlooks for the forthcoming meeting of the G-20 and APEC which we would be both attending. I have indicated to the President that we are pleased with progresses they made in the G-20, how many associated with the economy and global financial crisis response, including the work that has been done by finance ministers on IMF perform. I’ve indicated to the President that I very much support his idea to bring to the G-20 through the work and development quetions for discussion at the forthcoming meeting.

I have, as an Australian Prime Minister, also spoken today to the President about another involving some Australians, most particularly Ms. Schapelle Corby, and indicated the Australian government support for her clemency, and also indicated to the President that most there are for the legal proceeding in trial for a number of Australians known as the Bali 9, should be proceedings finalized with Australian citizens facing the death penalty, in that point the Australian goverment would indicate its support the clemency.

Overall and I thank the President and his ministers for the dialogue we’ve had today. It has been comprehensive. It is part of a good friendship. It is part of a strategic friendship, and it is part of building on that friendship for the future. Thank you very much.

<b>Presiden Republik Indonesia</b>
<i>Thank you, Madame Prime Minister.</i>
Saya persilakan kepada para wartawan yang ingin mengajukan pertanyaan.

<b>Mr. Aaron Guthrie, Reporter Australian Associated Press</b>
<i>Hello, this is Aaron Guthrie from Australian Associated Press. This is a question for you, President Yudhoyono. You have said in the past that you will not give remission to drug traffickers. Given that, is there any chance you’ll support Schapelle Corby’s remission application? And when will you make the final decision on it?</i>

<b>Presiden Republik Indonesia</b>
Baik, saya harus mengingat, apakah saya mengatakan seperti itu. Tetapi yang jelas, satu hal, di dalam penegakan hukum, saya menghormati independensi dari sistem pengadilan di Indonesia.

Pengurangan hukuman dimungkinkan dalam sistem kami. Presiden pun punya otoritas sesuai dengan Undang-Undang Dasar, dan selama ini kami berikan baik kepada terpidana dari Indonesia maupun terpidana dari negara-negara lain.

Tentu pertimbangannya harus tepat, apalagi kejahatan-kejahatan yang dianggap kejahatan yang serius. Terhadap kasus Ms. Corby, sebenarnya dalam sistem yang kami anut di sini, sudah ada sejumlah pengurangan hukuman.

Dalam pertemuan bilateral, saya dengan Perdana Menteri Julia Gillard bersepakat, mari kita bangun kerangka, kerja sama menghadapi kasus seperti ini, baik warga negara Australia di Indonesia maupun warga negara Indonesia di Australia. Contohnya, adalah kerja sama dalam ekstradisi di antara kedua negara. <i>Mutual legal assistance</i> dan kemungkinan <i>transfer of sentenced persons</i> yang bisa kita pikirkan di masa depan.

Inilah yang kita rumuskan bersama. Dengan demikian, di satu sisi, <i>justice must be upheld</i>. Di sisi lain, <i>humanitarian aspects to be put in to consideration</i>. Dan saya optimistik kita bisa mencapai solusi atau <i>framework</i> kerja sama seperti itu.

<b>Sdr. Panca, Wartawan LKBN Antara </b>
<i>Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, </i>
Yang saya hormati Bapak Presiden,
<i>Your Excellency Prime Minister Gillard,
My name Panca, I am from Antara, Indonesian News Agency. I have question for Prime Minister. We know many Indonesian students take education program in Australia. So, any plan from Indonesian government and Australian government to no visa need for Indonesian student in next. No need for Indonesian students, if they want to take program education, visa extention. Thank you very much.

<b>Perdana Menteri Australia</b>
<i>Thank you. You are right, a large numbers of Indonesian students do come to Australia to study, and we very much welcome them. We have a quite comprehensive scholarship program because we do want to be able to support Indonesian students to come to our country and study. We would continue to have a better arrangement for students who want to come and study in our country, and they are very welcome to come to Australia and study in a higher education institution.

As a government, we have been working with state goverments to make sure that we do provide a better support to students when they come away from home to study in our country, and that there is will be another support for them, and we will continue to build on that approach.</i>

<b>Ms. Diana Kudrow, Reporter Australian Broadcasting Corporation </b>
<i>Hello, my name is Diana Kudrow, from Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. President, a question to you, I’m interested in your views on the government’s proposal for a regional processing center for asylum seekers in East Timor. Do you think it will work? Will it help to stop people smuggling? And are you concerned that Indonesia may have to contribute funds towards that proposal?

<b>Presiden Republik Indonesia</b>
Baik, kami mendiskusikan tentang kerja sama yang efektif di dalam menghadapi atau mengatasi <i>people smuggling</i> dan <i>trafficking in person</i>. Kita sudah punya <i>framework</i>. Satu, Bali Process yang berlaku bagi kawasan di sini. Yang kedua adalah Lombok Treaty untuk kerja sama yang berkaitan dengan <i>trans-national crimes and security. </i>

Saya menyarankan dalam waktu dekat, <i>early next year</i>, itu bisa dilaksanakan pertemuan Bali Process untuk mengevaluasi efektivitas kerja sama di bidang <i>people smuggling</i> ini.

Tentang ide <i>regional processing center</i>, saya berharap bisa dibahas di situ, termasuk negara-negara yang paling dekat seperti Timor Leste sendiri, Indonesia tentunya, Australia, dan siapa lagi untuk memastikan bahwa itu adalah satu solusi yang efektif untuk kerja sama kawasan.

<i>And to ensure that the regional processing center is a proper way in improving the effectiveness in our regional cooperation in dealing with people smuggling. Indonesia is open to that, but we have to discuss in depth to ensure once again that this is the solution to our regional problems.

<b>Sdr. Rafael Don Bosco, Reporter Indosiar </b>
<i>Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabaraktuh,
Rafael Don Bosco from Indonesia, Indosiar Broadcast Television. I would like to ask Prime Minister Gillard. The first question, how your government and Indonesia handle the float of immigration so far? You know Indonesia quite recently becomes temporary state for illegal alliance from Iran, Afganistan whether both countries have set up joint cooperation about it?

And the second question is your government really seriously want to build detention center in East Timor for asylum seeker? Thank you.

<b>Presiden Republik Indonesia</b>
<i>Madame, if I could further clarify, he stresses on the involvement of all sides in this connection, the countries of origin, the countries of transit, and the countries of destination to be part of the overall regional cooperation. </i>

<b>Perdana Menteri Australia</b>
<i>Thank you very much. Thank you for the question. Can I say, I agree that for us to work through comprehensively question of people smuggling. We do need to be working with countries of origin, countries of transit, and countries of destination. And our dialogue is able to comprehend all of those matters.

On the question of the regional protection framework in regional processing center, Australia will be working with Indonesia and other countries in our region through the Bali Process as the President has indicated, and through bilateral discussion to work through a protection framework and processing arrangement, which would under top the business model of people smugglers, would take out the hands of people smugglers, the very product that they sell because there would be no reason for someone to keep engaging in movement around the region, because processing arrangement would be the same, and there would be collaboration across the region on our protection framework and with our processing center, would be a further discussion through the Bali Process as the President has indicated. </i>

<b>Presiden Republik Indonesia.</b>
<i>Thank you. Thank you, Madame Prime Minister. Thank you, member of the press.</i>
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