Sorry Quote attributed to the wrong person.

individual - Quote "I'm just about 100% certain that Indonesia would much prefer not to be the roadstead for the invaders getting into Australia." I would like to think you are right BUT it does not appear so you never hear of them turning or stopping anyone going there, so I believe they are complicit in the problem.

......Indonesia an unwritten obligation to fellow muslims....
Philip S,
That's why I wrote the above. Indonesia is complying with what every nation is expected to do & that is not to persecute citizens of like-minded nations if they do no wrong. Having fellow believers pass through your country is not a crime nor is not deterring them. Many Australians argue that humanitarian assistance is to be offered unquestioningly to an asylum seeker. If people aren't asking for asylum in Indonesia then you can hardly blame the Indonesians for letting them pass through.
Unlike Australia which has Visa conditions that Indonesia doesn't have for Australians. For an Indonesian to visit here requires so much bureaucratic nonsense yet tens of thousands of Australians see it as their right to just waltz up in Bali & behave like heathens. Not even they get deported so why should well behaved boat people be treated worse ?

Come back Rechtub!
So you got the wrong country.
It still looks OK compared to some comments.
Let us look at aid.
Do some of us know Howard funded a great deal of it?
In Indonesia for a start, aimed at education stopping in the end terrorism?
And are we, in talking of stopping aid, trying to black mail other countrys?
I see no budding Diplomats here.
And an extremism Abbott would not support.
Would you, if you became one of these boat people, pay ten thousand dollars to come here.
If on arrival you found your self on a plane on the way to Malaysia within days?
And sent to sit down and wait for many years?
Just think Malaysian solution would work.
Now how do we deport these people once they destroy their papers, what country does not want proof of what country they came from.
Whatever we do, do not let facts get in the way of a good rant.

I THINK WE NEED TO REFLECT ON WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE MUSLIM WORLD? WHY DO SO MANY WANT TO GET OUT? WHY ARE SO MANY PSCHYCOTIC? DO WE WANT THEM IN AUSTRALIA WITH THEIR MEDIEVIL PERCEPTIONS?

SILLER,

You might like to peruse the third point on this list.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/rules.asp

We can thank Kevin Rudd for the current situation. John Howard’s Pacific solution was successful until stupid goody goody two shoes Kevin dismantled it. He should be made to wear a 10Kg necklace of cast iron inscribed with the words “I opened the doors to uncontrolled entry of boat people”