Jakarta is finally getting its comeuppance for years of treating the Australian government with open contempt.
Quote:Indonesia's government and military are closing ranks against Australia's policy to turn back asylum seeker boats, after claims two boats were recently forced back to Indonesia.
The Indonesian president's office has backed his foreign minister's rejection of Australia turning boats around as unhelpful.
And another senior Indonesian official has warned that such a "provocative action" would "trigger more conflict, it will have an impact broadly and fundamentally on the bilateral relations".
Meanwhile, Indonesia's military chief says media reports suggesting that he supported Australian policy of sending asylum seeker boats back to Indonesia are misleading.
He said while he did speak with his Australian counterpart, General David Hurley, and understood Australia's stance, his words had been twisted and he does not support the policy.
linkThe sheer gall of these people is only what one can expect from a Third World banana republic where graft, corruption, nepotism, the greasing of palms, bribery, and criminal collusion is all part of the culture at the highest levels of government.
At long last these conceited Indonesians are getting a little of their own back from the Abbott government.
By returning the boats, Abbott is creating a tit-for-tat level playing field that has the Jakarta leadership spitting-the-dummy for the first time in decades.