The fact that this murderous baboon remains unhung and enjoying the support of half the Indo voters means Indonesia remains an enemy of liberty and therefore an enemy of the people of Australia. Why no arraignment for the murder of thousands of East Timorese (who risked their lives for our soldiers in the war against the Jap aggressors with whom the likes of Prabowo were collaborating)? Why are we not encouraging the resistance of the brave people of West Papua rather than shying away from them in embarrassed subservience to the Indos? Why has no attempt been made to lay charges over the murder of our five journalists? Governments of both the Tweedledum (Gareth Evans, Bob Carr) and Tweedledee (Alexander Downer, Tony Abbott) parties have kow-towed to Jakarta. One of the few pollies to speak up consistently for decency against Indonesia was Michael Hodgman of Tasmania.

@EmperorJulian:

I guess that's because Australian politicians still have healthy mind and don't think like a baboon?

Combined might of Western powers could not defeat the Taleban or prevent Iraq from falling under extremist ISIS, now you want little Australia to make war with Indonesia, a next-door neighbour which is the fourth most populous country in the world and 10th largest economy? This is 2014, not 1814.

Even George W Bush was not that stupid, he seek to make friends with Indonesia, guided by the arch-NeoCon Paul Wolfowitz who loved Indonesia. Current US president Obama is even more fond of Indonesia where he lived as a child, as he said during his 2010 Jakarta visit, "Indonesia is part of me".

Time for you to smell the coffee and wake-up from your hubristic fantasy of Australian 'superpower' abilities.

Who said anything about going to war with Indonesia?

Opposing in international fora its claims to the right to suppress democracy in its colonies is no more going to war than refusing to treat as "de jure" China's claims to the right to suppress the self-determination of ITS colonies (Tibet, East Turkestan) or its ambition to make a colony of Taiwan. For years we opposed the USSR's treatment of its captive nations without going to war with it. Indonesia is a country that harbours war criminals, and Australia hasn't even had the sand to take the murder by them of its own citizens to The Hague.

Or is Proud to be Indonesian's reference to war suggesting that if we took a principled international stance on these issues Indonesia would attack us militarily?

Hi Proud to be Indonesian

I apologise on behalf of all Australians and, in fact, all woman and mankind for EmperorJulian Assange's more extravagant rantings.

That EmperorJulian was actually hired by ex-General Prabowo Subianto to ruin a perfectly civil thread concerning Joko Widodo's imminent victory is more than just a rumour.

Regards

Pete

Plantagenet: Try identifying the "extravagant rantings" and stating what makes each of them, or even any of them, them extravagant rantings. No can do? Thought not.

@EmperorJulian:

LOL, so in your opinion China, Russia, and Indonesia should submit their internal issues to the will of Australians? LOL, good luck on that piece of parallel universe fantasy.

In the meantime, we Indonesians would like to take a principled international stance that colonialist white illegal immigrants should return all Australia back to its rightful owners, the Aborigines. All the stolen wealth made by the white colonialists should be returned to the Aborigines, and any white illegal immigrants wishing to remain in Australia should only be allowed to do so after applying and obtaining permission from honorable Aborigines. Only the Aborigines have the right to determine who can enter Australia.