All good people agree
            And all good people say
            All nice people like Us, are We
            And everyone else is They
                                                                   Rudyard Kipling

In the foreword to Duncan Graham’s The People Next Door: Understanding Indonesia, Abdurrahman Wahid, a former president of Indonesia, describes the ‘on and off’ relationship between Australia and Indonesia as vulnerable to the winds of ‘narrow-minded nationalism’. For Wahid, there is significant opportunity for exchange between the two countries if we develop greater levels of engagement: ‘Visit us more ... trust us more ... Remember you are near us. Overcome your fear of Indonesia.’