REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia and Australia have agreed to enhance trade relations through the Indonesian Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) and step up counterterrorism cooperation this year.

"The two leaders continue to encourage the conclusion of negotiations at the end of 2017," Press, Media and Information Bureau of the Presidential Secretariat quoted Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi as saying.

Marsudi was responding to a bilateral meeting between Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull held on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, the bureau noted in a press statement released on Friday evening.

Jokowi and Turnbull held the bilateral meeting before attending the G20 Summit in Hamburg on Friday afternoon.