Consulate Generals of Indonesia are also present in the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Darwin.

Initially located in Melbourne, the representation moved to Canberra in 1949, moving from Hotel Canberra to Deakin before permanently establishing itself in the current embassy location at Yarralumla in August 1971.

The original building was designed by George Holland, and featured a display pavilion called "Wisma Wista Budaya".

[2][3] The embassy was targeted by a bioterrorism hoax in 2005 during the trial of Schapelle Corby.

[4] In 2015, a week after the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, a HAZMAT team was called to the embassy due to presence of a suspicious package containing white powder.