Indonesian newspaper depicts Prime Minister Tony Abbott as a deviant
NATIONAL POLITICAL EDITOR SAMANTHA MAIDEN SUNDAY MAIL (SA) NOVEMBER 23, 2013 6:42PM

TONY Abbott has been depicted as a naked, masturbating, Peeping Tom on the front page of an Indonesian newspaper.



In new nadir for Australian-Indonesian relations after revelations the Rudd government bugged political leaders' phones, the Prime Minister has been lampooned in a respected newspaper.

The Rakyat Merdeka depicts Mr Abbott masturbating in front of an open door marked Indonesia saying, "Ssst! Oh My God Indo ... So Sexy."

Mr Abbott is sweating, with his shorts at half mast and is wearing Australian flag underpants.

A spokesman for Mr Abbott had no comment on the cartoon last night.

Protesters burned Australian flags in Jakarta last week as political leaders expressed outrage at the surveillance.

Mr Abbott confirmed yesterday he has exchanged letters with Indonesia over the spy claims but would not disclose the contents.

It's understood the correspondence does not contain a formal apology.

"Well, I think it would be wrong of me to talk about what I've said to the President before the President has actually received it,'' Mr Abbott said.

"But I just want to stress that as far as I am concerned one of the fundamental tasks of any Australian government, but certainly one of the fundamental tasks of my Government, is to ensure that our relationship with Indonesia goes from strength to strength.

"Now, obviously there will be good days and there will be better days but my determination is to ensure that the relationship is constantly improving and my gratitude, as always, to President Yudhoyono who has been a very good friend to Australia, one of the best friends we've ever had.''

Australian officials have also described the phone bugging revelations as "not helpful'' to the task of convincing the president to intervene in the Bali 9 case.

Without a presidential reprieve, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran face death by firing squad.

The spying revelations emerged last week in documents leaked by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

You cant blame America but this really shows the negative side of Snowdens work. His desire for transparency at all costs has almost lead to full scale war over nothing.

Could be worse . Much much worse . What if we got caught spying on China or America ??

Could be worse . Much much worse . What if we got caught spying on China or America ??

You cant blame America but this really shows the negative side of Snowdens work. His desire for transparency at all costs has almost lead to full scale war over nothing.

You cant blame America but this really shows the negative side of Snowdens work. His desire for transparency at all costs has almost lead to full scale war over nothing.

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That would be incredibly naive. I think we'd be just about the only country not doing intelligence work if we went down the route of your suggestion

There's a difference between spying on threats to the country and other intelligence matters and trying to bug the phones of the head of state of our largest neighbour.

Don't you know afro , us aussies are allowed to act like dicks. But when another country tells us something we become childish

I love how people were up in arms about how 'disrespectful' it was for Indonesians to be burning Australian flags, but they continually refer to Yudhoyono in this fashion.

So parodying a name = burning a flag.

Right. :lol:

Don't even compare it to burning a flag.

It's kinda disrespectful. The guy's the leader of his country.

The kind of people who think parodying his name constantly over and over is still funny are the kind of people who still laugh out loud at Simpsons Episodes from 1994.

Did I compare it ? We tend to mock other countries leaders names and mock there countries when we go o/s . We make a fool of ourselves and proclaim we're aussies we can act like this who gives a fuck about your country . It's called decorum

I've said it once or twice, and so has Finky.

Anyway, so is burning a flag 'kinda disrespectful'?

Did I compare it ?

We tend to mock other countries leaders names and mock there countries when we go o/s . We make a fool of ourselves and proclaim we're aussies we can act like this who gives a fuck about your country . It's called decorum

I've been overseas, and I've never witnessed Australians mocking the country they're in.

Burning a flag is hugely disrespectful. Hell, I even hate people who wear it as a cape or other item of clothing.

But Australians can't really get on their soap box about Indonesians being 'disrespectful' when they constantly parody the guys name in such an infantile manner. As MvFCArsenal said, it's called decorum.

You have the right but to act all high and mighty then mock his name is hypocrisy .we can't do one thing and then do another .

So I don't have the right to condemn the burning of the flag as I parodied his name?

You complained that something was disrespectful, and then in turn were disrespectful yourself. How is this so complicated to understand?

However, burning our national flag is abhorrent, far worse than anything that I have said in this thread.