ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses recent trends of Australian externalisation strategies and how they impact on the lives of refugees in Indonesia, its closest neighbour and formerly a crucial stepping stone for irregular maritime voyages to Australia. While Australia has financed Indonesian immigration detention centres for many years in order to prevent the onward migration of refugees, in 2018 Indonesia adopted a new policy and released all detained refugees from those immigration detention centres. While so-called alternatives to detention offer some improvements to formerly incarcerated refugees, they nonetheless constitute a form of spatial containment beyond detention. Refugees enjoy a larger radius of mobility, yet they are still stuck in Indonesia.
