Embassy of Indonesia in Ottawa
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The Embassy of Indonesia in Ottawa
is the diplomatic mission
of Indonesia
in the Canadian capital of Ottawa
. It is located on Parkdale Avenue, just south of the Ottawa River
in the Mechanicsville
neighbourhood. The embassy moved to this location in the mid 1990s. Diplomatic relations between Canada and Indonesia were first established in 1949 and ambassadors were exchanged in 1952. For many years the embassy was the site of protests over East Timor
, the massacre of ethnic Chinese Indonesians
and other Indonesian human rights abuses.
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
is the diplomatic mission
Diplomatic mission
A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organisation present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation in the receiving state...
of Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
in the Canadian capital of Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
. It is located on Parkdale Avenue, just south of the Ottawa River
Ottawa River
The Ottawa River is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. For most of its length, it now defines the border between these two provinces.-Geography:...
in the Mechanicsville
Mechanicsville (Ottawa)
Mechanicsville is a neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located to the west of downtown and bordered by the Ottawa River to the north, the transitway railway to the east, Scott Street to the south, and Parkdale Avenue to the west...
neighbourhood. The embassy moved to this location in the mid 1990s. Diplomatic relations between Canada and Indonesia were first established in 1949 and ambassadors were exchanged in 1952. For many years the embassy was the site of protests over East Timor
East Timor
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...
, the massacre of ethnic Chinese Indonesians
Jakarta Riots of May 1998
The May 1998 Riots of Indonesia were incidents of mass violence that occurred throughout Indonesia, mainly in Medan in the province of North Sumatra , the capital city of Jakarta , and Surakarta in the province of Central Java...
and other Indonesian human rights abuses.