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Lewis Blayse

Australia’s recently-revived Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is due to visit Indonesia this week, and will likely be placing the issue of the “boat people” high on the agenda. The asylum seekers from places like Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, pay people-smugglers to get on boats to Australia. It is perceived as a real problem, domestically, for the Australian government, which claims Indonesia is not doing enough to catch the people-smugglers, and stem the flow of the boats washing up on Australian shores.

Indonesian commentator, Iqhbal Sukokiman says that “Australian paedophiles keep washing up on our shores and it is time to do something.” Perhaps, if the Australian government did more to stem the flow of Australian paedophiles to Indonesia, and Bali in particular, the Indonesian government might be more sympathetic to the Australian government’s position on the people-smugglers.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has reported that…