Tag: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Protests have erupted in Jakarta as Prime Minister Tony Abbott responds to Indonesia's call to explain the tapping of the president's phone.

Protesters have warned Australians would be targeted unless Indonesia receives an apology over the phone tapping scandal.

Australia has been accused of betraying Indonesia amid an outbreak in nationalist rhetoric in the wake of fresh spying allegations.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to comment on allegations Australian spies targeted the mobile phone of Indonesia's president and his confidants.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says his government's policy to turn back asylum seeker boats to Indonesia will respect the country's sovereignty.

The Abbott government insists it will honour its election promise to stop asylum seekers arriving by boat despite Indonesian opposition to its controversial plan to turn back vessels.

A strategy to stop asylum seeker boat arrivals is at the top of Tony Abbott’s to-do list for next week after his ministry is sworn in.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Tony Abbott’s plan to buy boats from Indonesian fishermen to stop them being used by people smugglers shows his lack of understanding, Jakarta says.

Former federal Labor leader Mark Latham has urged Prime Minister Julia Gillard to adopt the Coalition’s policy of sending boats carrying asylum seekers back into Indonesian waters in order to address the severity of the people smuggling issue.