Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Australia

Diplomatic Offices · Canberra, Australia

Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Australia

About Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Australia

Indonesia's diplomatic presence in Australia dates back to June 1947, when the newly declared republic assigned its first representative to the country during the Indonesian National Revolution, initially based in Melbourne before the mission moved to Canberra in 1949. The embassy did not settle into a permanent home until August 1971, when construction that began the previous year was completed on a purpose-built site at 8 Darwin Avenue in the diplomatic district of Yarralumla, where it remains today. An additional office block followed between 1983 and 1984, and a cultural hall named Balai Kartini, after the Indonesian women's rights figure Kartini, was added in 1986 alongside an earlier exhibition pavilion known as Wisma Wisata Budaya.

Beyond its core diplomatic functions, the embassy in Canberra also carries responsibility for Indonesia's relationship with Vanuatu and sits at the top of a network of consular posts around Australia, with consulates general in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth and a consulate in Darwin handling more localised visa and citizen services. Visitors dealing directly with the embassy in Canberra can expect standard government office hours, Monday to Friday from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM and again from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM, with a midday closure and no weekend service.

The embassy can be reached by phone at +61 2 6250 8600. Its official website, kbri-canberra.go.id, was previously missing from this record and has now been added; the site carries current consular information, visa requirements and news from the mission. The existing email address on file could not be independently reconfirmed against the embassy's own site during this review, since kemlu.go.id's Canberra pages did not return readable content, so it has been left unchanged rather than replaced on the strength of conflicting secondary sources.

The embassy compound has also, on occasion, been the site of unwelcome attention rather than routine diplomacy. It was targeted by a bioterrorism hoax in 2005 during a period of heightened Australia-Indonesia tension, and a decade later a hazmat team was called to investigate a suspicious package during another sensitive period in the bilateral relationship. Neither incident reflects on the embassy's day-to-day consular work, but both are documented in the historical record and help explain why the compound's security posture is more visible than at many other diplomatic missions in Canberra's Yarralumla district. For most visitors, though, the practical business of the embassy remains passports, visas and consular assistance for the two countries' citizens, handled from the same Darwin Avenue address the mission has occupied for more than fifty years.

Address

8 Darwin Avenue, Yarralumla ACT 2600, Canberra, Australia

Opening hours

Monday Friday
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Saturday Sunday
Closed

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Indonesian Diplomatic Offices in Australia

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