Current situation

Spread across a chain of thousands of islands between Asia and Australia, Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population and Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Indonesian citizens enjoy both political rights and civil liberties and Indonesia has an increasingly positive human rights track record.

Indonesia and the Netherlands maintain close relations. Indonesia is a partner country of the Netherlands in development cooperation. Cultural relations between the two countries are close owing to their shared history.

The European Union and Indonesia have made significant strides in building a modern, outward-looking partnership. This is rooted in thriving trade links, a shared attachment to advancing democracy and human rights, action on climate change and terrorism at home and abroad and expanding people-to-people links.