New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister, Murray McCully, says his country has a constructive relationship with Indonesia, despite its ending a New Zealand-funded initiative to train police in the troubled region of Papua.
The more than $US5 million project was due to start this year but was cancelled last month, reportedly because of fears New Zealand has a hidden agenda.
Activists who opposed the initiative in the first place because of human rights abuses by the Indonesian police, have called on the New Zealand Government to take a stronger stance.
Murray McCully says New Zealand regularly raises the issue of human rights with Indonesia, but prefers to work with the country rather than criticise from a distance.
