Jakarta, June 5 -- Australia has encouraged the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) to take advantage of its military training facilities during an exercise scheduled for October at the Mount Bundy Training Facility in the Northern Territory.

This was conveyed by Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles during a meeting with Indonesian Minister of Defence Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin at the Ministry of Defence office in Jakarta on Thursday.

"We are encouraging the TNI to unilaterally take advantage of Australia's training facilities. The first iteration of this will be the TNI conducting training at Mount Bundy in October of this year," Marles said during a media doorstop in Jakarta.

Marles also mentioned that...