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What happens when the Australian Ambassador to Indonesia is withdrawn
Australia's largest foreign mission is its embassy in Jakarta. That mission will soon be without an ambassador. Ministerial visits have also been suspended. With contact at the highest levels suspended how will it affect business and the thousands of travellers between the countries?
The Australian Government had hoped that “Indonesia would show mercy to the two young men, who have worked hard since their arrests to rehabilitate themselves and improve the lives of other prisoners,” according to a statement from the office of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop today.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran’s family and friends at this extremely difficult time” Ms Bishop said.
Ms Bishop confirmed that Australia, “will withdraw our Ambassador for consultations once the men’s bodies have been returned to the Chan and Sukumaran families...Ministerial visits will remain suspended” said Ms Bishop.
DFAT nor the DIBP have provided any information on how these measures will specifically affect business or travellers between the countries. However, according to various analysts, Australia’s reaction which as serious as it seems, will not affect the daily operations of the Australian consulates in Indonesia. It does not mean diplomatic relations have ended as the rest of the consulate will continue to operate and provide services.
DFAT’s smartraveller.gov.au website advice is to ‘exercise a high degree of caution’ on travel to Indonesia’ which is at the same overall level of advice prior to the announcement of the downgrading of diplomatic contact.
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015The AFP need to be investigated for their crime in tipping off Indonesia about our boys, whilst KNOWING about the death penalty and what would happen. Certain death. They need to be brought to justice. They are just as bad as Widodo the murderer.
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015
The AFP still denies responsibility despite had pushed Andrew and Myuran to death.
Some of these boys/girl were still teenage and none of them over 25, why didn't stop them before their departure or arrest them after came back? -
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
if only the people who died of drug overdoses, or those poor people who are addicts and have to resort to prostitution and criminal violence to feed their habits got a say in any of this.
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Will not effect travelers much as most of the work is done by consular staff not Ambassadors
Just boys playing political games. Yes the State execution of two Australians is an attack on humanity. But so is war where many more state sponsored deaths occur. we do not hear the same level of protest over that. -
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
This is an absurd over-reaction. Why not also withdraw our Ambassador to the USA, where they daily exercise the death penalty? I agree it is tragic for the families involved, but they had plenty of legal representation and media frenzy in support, yet ultimately the Law had its way. And we should respect the sovereign right of Indonesia to exercise its Law -- just as they do ours. Let's focus on real humanitarian issues -- like innocent victims of earthquakes!
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Thursday, 30 April 2015
or boat loads of refugees being told its safe where they came from!
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Thursday, 30 April 2015
Our security agencies should not have bugged the Indonesian President's wife's phone, or at least, been caught doing it. The two boys were easy scapegoats for this stupidity. We have been taught a lesson.
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Thursday, 30 April 2015
Australia should reconsider to provide aids to them, money will be better spent by not cutting benefit of our citizens.
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Thursday, 30 April 2015
I feel very bad for the families and I personally do not think the death penalty is solution but who am I to say what is right.
What everyone forgets in the past 2-3 months that this Australian citizens broke the law in a foreign country. They organised a group of people with purpose to take drugs to country that has a death penalty for drug smugglers. They new the risk and they hoped not to get caught and earn lots of money in the process.
AFP was wrong in this instance and they should have stopped the group before they left Australia. I believe the AFP should be hold accountable because they sentenced all members to death or life in prison by tipping off the Indonesian police.
Indonesia has to show they are tough on this issue as well and to discourage further incidents, they can do that in manner they wish to do it. Australia cannot stop it and should not interfere. It is up to the International community to bring the Death Penalty issue for review, not Australia. This is why all normal people do not carry drugs when traveling overseas and obey the laws of the host country. If there was no tough deterrent, everyone would break the law. it is same for any foreign country and Indonesia should not be singled out.
They should have allowed at least the prisoners to spend life in prison instead but there is nothing much we can do to change this anytime soon unless an international organisation starts a campaign not a single country and do not forget the most powerful (USA and China) also have death penalty so I do not see any change coming soon... -
Friday, 01 May 2015
They should not have killed them they were renovated
My son is a drug addict all the prison time has never rehabilated him
and he has spent most of 10 years in and out of
Prison
It gave me hope to see Andrew and Myuran
helping prison inmates to become better
People
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Joko Widodo has blood on his hands, never be able to wash off.
I will never travel to Indonesia, or make any donation whatever happens there.