Indonesia's road map dashes hopes for quick reopening of relations Complex: Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa. Indonesia is insisting on a complex six-step process before it signs a spying "code of ethics" and resumes bilateral action on people smuggling, terrorism and re-engages on joint military exercises. Mr Abbott said on Thursday he wanted the two nations to restore normal co-operation "as quickly as possible," but that now looks overly optimistic. The Prime Minister suggested a "round table" as a way to heal the offence taken by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Australian eavesdropping on him and his wife's mobile phones in 2009 and create a new framework for intelligence co-operation. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa made it clear an agreed intelligence protocol would need to be negotiated and signed by the two leaders at a bilateral meeting. The next such meeting is not scheduled until late 2014. The two leaders meet on the sidelines of numerous other international forums such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum, the G20, the United Nations and the East Asia Forum. There are about six such meetings a year, but most have already occurred. The leaders could arrange a special meeting, but much of next year in Indonesia will be consumed by parliamentary and presidential elections, and the political atmosphere is likely to be hot. Dr Natalegawa said a round table - which is likely to include Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as Australia's envoy - would only represent the first part of the first step. He said he had spoken to Ms Bishop to outline the present state of bilateral relations "as a precondition towards a stepping stone to discussing a code of conduct." The second step was negotiating a protocol; the third was for the Indonesian President to consider the protocol and endorse it; the fourth for it to be signed by the two leaders. Step six is: "Re-establishment and revival of a sense of trust before we can proceed to look at the bilateral co-operations." "I've been in this job sufficiently long to know it's not wise to have a timeline or a deadline, but we'll look at the third and fourth steps the President has mentioned, that he himself will be going through the code of conduct and that he and the Prime Minister wish to be witnesses to the signing of this code of conduct," he said. Earlier, he said: "I'm confident that we will be able to use the experience of the last week or so, ultimately, for the long-term good of the relationship. Yes, it's been a difficult week or so in this very, very important relationship for both countries but I want to bring something positive out of it.