I wanted to share a story with you that happened last month.
After a journey of forty days, a bulk carrier ship called the Medi Luna docked at the Port of Brisbane.
Onboard, was a cargo of around 47,000 tonnes of urea.
Normally, much of Australia's imported urea comes via the Middle East.
But due to the conflict in that region this shipment came from Indonesia as part of a commercial deal between PT Pupuk and Incitec Pivot, supported by our nation’s leaders.
Urea is one of the world's most important fertilisers.
It helps Australian farmers grow the wheat, barley and oats that feed millions of people at home and abroad.
Take wheat, for example.
More than 60 per cent of Australia's wheat production is exported.
And over the past five years, more than three million tonnes have gone to Indonesia.
When it gets here, it is used to make noodles and instant noodles, like Indomie.
Now, I don’t need to explain Indomie to this audience, or even to an audience back home.
It’s one of the world’s most recognisable brands.
More than 100 countries sell it, more than 15 billion packets are manufactured every year.
And when you stop to think about it, there is something remarkable about that.
Indonesian fertiliser boosts the quality of Australian wheat crops.
Australian flour helps make Indonesian noodles.
Indonesian food brands reach consumers across the globe.
In one supply chain, you can see the practical reality of the Australia–Indonesia partnership.
Not as an abstract concept.
Not as a line in a communique.
But as neighbours helping to create each other's prosperity.
The partnership of our two countries has solid roots.
From the early trade connections between the people of Makassar and First Nations communities in northern Australia, to Australia's support for Indonesian independence in the wake of World War II.
And it is the foundation on which we can build an even more ambitious future together.
Our region finds itself in a period of great challenge, and opportunity.
Ahead of us is a more unstable geostrategic balance, as great powers increasingly compete for influence.
The largest and most rapid military build-up since the Second World War is happening now in our region.
The implications of this were last week made clear, and real, when submarine-launched ballistic missile test splashed down into the Pacific.
Climate change is also threatening lives, and livelihoods, and the stability and growth of nations.
And technological change, including AI, promises transformation and productivity alongside disruption and dislocation.
But the opportunity is there too.
Our region is home to sixty per cent of the world’s population and sixty per cent of global GDP.
And as part of this, Southeast Asia is expected to be the world's fourth-largest economy by 2040.
Australia is committed to working with Southeast Asia, to build partnerships, to protect the rules-based order, and to invest in our collective future – our security, and prosperity.
Our relationship with Indonesia is a critical part of this.
Our cooperation across security, the maritime domain, trade and investment, in ASEAN, in development, and education is decades long, and deep.
But we can take this to a higher level.
And with the signing of the Australia–Indonesia Treaty on Common Security – or the Jakarta Treaty – we are doing just that.
It is the most significant step forward in our bilateral relationship to date and is grounded in the trust and cooperation built between our nations.
At its core is the understanding that peace and security in our region is only possible if we work for this together…
…Or to quote President Prabowo, "Good neighbours matter. Good neighbors will help each other in times of difficulty".
Like Indonesia shipping Australia urea last month with the promise of more to come.
Like Australia increasing the supply of Liquefied Petroleum Gas to Indonesia by at least two-fold between 2025 and 2026 to help you meet business and household demand for cooking fuel.
Across the archipelago, Australian LPG is helping to fill cylinders, or "green melons", that are so essential in Indonesian warungs and houses.
In both instances, we are taking into account each other’s needs and helping each other.
The Treaty commits our countries to consult on a regular basis on matters affecting our common security and develop the sort of cooperation that will enhance regional stability.
Whether this be in defence, maritime, cyber, or economic security cooperation…
The Treaty supports new bilateral security initiatives and more sophisticated joint exercises between our militaries.
The joint development of defence training facilities in Indonesia and a new embedded position for a senior Indonesian military officer in the Australian Defence Force.
And it expands the Junior Leaders' Forum Military Education Exchange, so our future military leaders can begin to connect and work together from an earlier age.
We’re investing over $33 million to implement the Treaty, including measures support our shared economic security and resilience.
Work which will go hand in hand with our Invested Strategy, which is working with businesses to unlock opportunities in trade and investment, in critical infrastructure, education and health.
Implementing the Treaty also gives us a chance to invest in our most important asset - our people.
We’re providing additional funding to the Australia-Indonesia Institute to increase Indonesian language and country expertise in Australia.
And we’re creating a new leadership dialogue that will bring together parliamentary, business, government, media and other senior leaders, to foster ties and discuss ways to further strengthen the relationship.
Because while we face an increasingly challenging geostrategic environment, we do so together.
By deepening our cooperation under the Jakarta Treaty, we can help each other as neighbours, as partners, and friends.
Helping secure the supply chains that sustain our economies, the energy and food - including Indomie - that sustain our people, and the peace and prosperity that sustain our region.