Amateur Diplomacy

An Indonesian importers association is boycotting Australian products.

April 11, 2006

A CARTOON published in the Saturday edition of The Weekend Australian daily newspaper two weeks ago has increased tensions. In it, a man wearing a traditional black peci hat was sitting astride a man with dark skin. One could easily guess that the man in the hat was President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the dark-skinned man represented the Papuans. Relations between Indonesia and Australia have heated up. Not only diplomatically, but economicall

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