Prime Minister Tony Abbott will meet Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Batam Island on Wednesday in a bid to improve relations.
This will be his first trip since Indonesia suspended cooperation with Australia late last year over spying claims.
Relations between Indonesia and Australia have deteriorated after allegations of phone tapping of the president and his wife, and amid Indonesia's concerns over asylum seeker boat turnbacks.
The two countries have been working on a code of conduct to govern how they deal with each other.
Mr Abbott will spend about eight hours on the island, which was also the setting of a reconciliation meeting between former prime minister John Howard and Mr Yudhoyono in 2006.
The Howard meeting came after the Papuan boat people crisis and the release of radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.
Mr Abbott has spoken on the phone with the president, and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has held talks with a senior Indonesian officials in recent weeks.
Last month, the Prime Minister cancelled a trip to Bali over an 'on-water operation'. The trip had been at the Indonesian president's invitation.
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