Australia and Indonesia should discuss their problems privately - not in the media - if they want a more harmonious relationship, President Joko Widodo's most trusted minister has advised.
Luhut Panjaitan says he made the suggestion to former prime minister Tony Abbott, and it still stands for his successor Malcolm Turnbull, who makes his first visit to Jakarta on Thursday.
"I think if we have problems between Indonesia and Australia - sorry - we better not go to the media," the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs told an audience of journalists in Jakarta on Wednesday.
"Send some special envoys to discuss it, I think that can bring the tension down."
The former four-star army general also suggested Australia learn more about the Javanese nature of the president, who is known best as Jokowi.
"I do hope Australia can learn more about the culture of the Javanese, if I may advise," Mr Panjaitan said.
Relations with Indonesia bottomed out under Mr Abbott's watch, an accumulation of the spying scandal, the death penalty, and - still troublesome - Australia's asylum boat turnbacks.
University of Indonesia academic Evi Fitriani Sukarno says Mr Turnbull's visit is a "very good signal" that he wants to refresh relations after the string of problems.
But Operation Sovereign Borders will likely remain a source of tension after Mr Turnbull leaves.
"It's as if your neighbour took the leaves that were in their yard and just dumped them in our yard," she said of asylum seekers.
"Secondly, Australia has done it by entering Indonesian territory without permission.
"So it's like, they have their rubbish, they collect it and then enter our yard and put the rubbish here, without saying anything.
"People would be furious if you did this. It's as if Australia is mocking us."
Indonesian Foreign Ministry director-general for multilateral affairs, Hasan Kleib, on Monday urged Australia to consider the "bottleneck" its policies had created in Indonesia.
In a UN Human Rights Council performance review, Australia's policies attracted broad criticism from a large number of nations.
Indonesia halted plans for further executions after the deaths by firing squad of Australians Myuran Sukumaran, Andrew Chan and eight others in April were met with international outrage.
Mr Panjaitan says plans for any further executions are off for now because: "We're still very busy with our economy".
