"Despite one or two problems, the relations between the two neighboring countries should be well maintained," Boediono stated at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday.
The Vice President said that the two countries being located adjacent to each other might result in some problems.
"Sometimes the current problems are almost the same as those that has existed in the past. However, based on past experience, those problems can be settled well," Boediono noted. He added that he hoped that all the problematic issues would not damage the two countries relations in the long term.
"It is better to have good neighbors as we can choose friends but not neighbors," he said after delivering a lecture before hundreds of students at Monash University.
Monash University is the third campus visited by the Indonesian Vice President during his sojourn in Australia. Meanwhile, Melbourne is the third city where Boediono stopped during his state visit to Australia from November 10 to 16.
The Vice President arrived in Perth, Western Australia, on Sunday night, where he attended some events including one at the University of Western Australia.
In Perth, he also met with the Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett.
Boediono departed for Canberra on Tuesday for a bilateral meeting with Australias Prime Minister Toni Abbott and for a visit to the Australian National University (ANU),which had invited Boediono to honor him with a honoris causa in Social Sciences.
The Vice President is also scheduled to attend the Australia-Indonesia Business Forum and meet a number of Australian businesspersons.
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