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| Down Under |
| Field day for Indon propaganda |
| 2005-06-07 |
| Indons condemn security hoax From correspondents in Jakarta June 7, 2005 INDONESIA today condemned as a "terror threat" the second security hoax at its embassy in Canberra in a week, amid growing resentment towards its neighbour's obsession with a young Australian woman jailed in Bali on drugs charges. The propaganda boon of an envelope of white powder sent to the embassy was accompanied by an abusive letter WRITTEN IN INDONESIAN Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said the incident was "part of a wave of threat of terror" against Indonesia. Also, websites supporting Schapelle Corby such as banbali.com were subjected to repeated hack attacks and porn postings. The servers were traced back to Indonesia. That story didn't make the news though it appeared on the newswires last monday. Many of Corby's supporters, who back her claim that she was the victim of an international smuggling syndicate, have threatened to boycott Bali as a holiday destination and have demanded the return of aid for Indonesian tsunami victims. And rightly so, this was a miscarriage of justice by a tinpot 3rd world court that was overtly biased. They didn't even have a translator in court for her final plea so the judges sat there looking at her without understanding a word she said. It was a sham trial. There was not enough evidence to convict her in an Aussie court. She wanted the bag fingerprinted: they refused. She wanted the pot analysed by Australian police drug experts to track where it came from: they refused. She underwent drug tests: all negative. She asked for CCTV security camera footage: there wasn't any. |
| Posted by:anon1 |
| #3 Yes, seafarious, I want my tsunami donations back, too! I know it's not the poor innocent people who did this but it IS their culture that produced the court system and judges and government that is there. Plus did you know that in January 05 while our donations and troops were helping patch up the wave struck areas, the INDONESIAN military was too busy facing off with Malaysia over an island they both claim. So really if we denied them aid they could put their own military towards civilian projects instead of causing regional problems. Also they conducted a web war, possibly the first ever? over that debacle. Indonesian hackers broke into Malaysian govt websites and posted the red and white javanese indon flag all over them, proclaiming the island was theirs (forgot the name of the island - these stories appeared on the wires in january and weren't picked up by all newspapers as tsunami news was bigger then) |
| Posted by: anon1 2005-06-07 12:31 |
| #2 While Indonesia was never high on my travel list, it fell much much lower on the basis of this trial. We all bent over backwards to assist Indonesia after the tsunami (just ask Chuck Simmins), and this travesty is the result. No good deed goes unpunished. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-06-07 12:14 |
| #1 Forgot to ad: Aussies are angry as they rightly perceive this trial was run on the presumption of guilt. Whether or not Corby could produce the real culprit is irrelevant to proving that she didn't do it: yet this is what the indon judges said on record she would have to do. It isn't because she's young, pretty and white. It's because Aussies know injustice when they smell it. This is one Aussie who is not going on holidays to Bali (though I had planned to go this year). Thailand is looking much better. |
| Posted by: anon1 2005-06-07 12:07 |