在太平洋东南部，澳大利亚与印尼是最重要的两个国家。两国关系的发展对亚太地区的安全与稳定有着重要的影响。印尼社会的繁荣与安定对澳大利亚意义重大。澳大利亚对印尼提供援助符合澳大利亚的国家利益，同时也满足了印尼发展的需要。进入21世纪以来，澳大利亚不断增加对印尼的对外援助，2011年超越日本成为印尼最大的援助国。在新形势下，澳大利亚对印尼的援助呈现了新特点，更关注基础设施与公共服务，尤其是教育的投入。但是，由于文化差异、经验不足和规划失误等，澳大利亚对印尼的援助仍存在一些问题，比如单一的援助方式、援助地区与领域的失衡以及项目执行效果评估标准有待完善等。虽然如此，考虑到澳大利亚重新调整对外援助政策，将绝大部分的资源放在印度洋—太平洋地区，澳大利亚对印尼援助的前景仍十分广阔。
In Southeast Pacific，Australia and Indonesia are two of the most important countries. The relationship between the two countries have great influence on the security and stability of the Asia-Pacific area. The prosperity and stability of Indonesia is of great importance to Australia. Thus，Australia’s aid to Indonesia serves the interests of Australia，and meets the demands of a developing Indonesia. In the 21st century，Australia constantly expands the aid to Indonesia，the amount of which exceeded that of Japan in 2011，making Australia Indonesia’s largest donor. Under the new circumstances，there are several new features of Australia’s aid to Indonesia. Priority has been given to social infrastructure and public service，especially education，establishing the three-level evaluation system. However，considering problems such as cultural difference，inexperience，mistakes in planning，there is a lot left to accomplish. For example，it still stings in Australia’s foreign aid system that the single aiding form，the imbalance between areas in geographical terms and in social or economic term，and lack of evaluation criterion. Nevertheless，Australia have been adjusting its foreign aid policy，and most of the aiding resources has been used in the Indo-Pacific. So，despite all above，there are much brighter prospects for Australia’s aid to Indonesia.
