Yes, so!? There's no welcome mat!?

One needs to remember that Indonesia was once a hindu nation colonized by the militant muslim sword and or that on some Indonesian maps, Queensland is included as part of Indonesia?

Just as East Timor was?

I mean, do fair dinkum friends, wishing to develop two way trade just cancel four fifths of your live cattle exports without a single warning!?

Were we not a long term "blood debt" ally of the U.S.; and that Indonesia faces a much larger potential totally ruthless adversary, in an expansionist china?

But for the aforementioned facts, we a much less populous nation would today be all speaking Indonesian and by law!?

One need look no further than the Indonesian, [irrational hate,] treatment of Melanesian Papuans, to understand the sheer distain they look at "infidel" foreigners and their possessions with, or what would be already our lot, without powerful nuclear armed friends in our corner?

It is not by chance that our most powerful U.K. and U.S. allies just happen to be both white and mostly christian!

It's all our fault, right?

We're the hostile ones slapping away the forgiving hand of Christian fellowship?
Rhrosty.

What? I have learned from this article...Barli is Hindu...

Australia is NOT part of Asia, and our relationship with Indonesia - if we still have such a thing - will continue to be rubbish.

I wonder what else this person - who doesn't even live here- thinks we don't know about our geography and culture.

Boo !!

Be afraid...be Very Afraid!

Oh experts, please tell us common non-English types what to think. We're so confused by our exposure to places like the Hindoo Bali and the Moslem Java and other strange and scary places like that

Oooh, hairs on end. Please adjust the Terror Warning Threats against us to tell us just how Afraid we must be. They're such scary folks there that they even have our staunch Saudi and Bahraini and Qatari Allies offside too - and the latter are so nice and Investor-like to our Banks

Time to grow up Duncan, you've been living down the bottom of the garden with the fairies so long, you appear to believe life is, or should be a fairy tale.

Life out here in the real world is often tough. Get used to it.

Do be careful. By the sounds of this piece, the stuff you're smoking could get you locked up for a long time in your winter home.

B'sides any cosmopolitan Indon worth talking to speaks English.