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Text your say: Diplomatic tensions
Your comments on the heating up of Indonesiaâs diplomatic relations with Brazil and Australia because of the execution of a Brazilian drug trafficker and the plan to execute two Australian convicts involved in a similar crime
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our comments on the heating up of Indonesia's diplomatic relations with Brazil and Australia because of the execution of a Brazilian drug trafficker and the plan to execute two Australian convicts involved in a similar crime.
his people, has decided to have drug traffickers executed. As an Indonesian citizen I fully agree with and support our President's decision to have all the drug traffickers executed.
I know how difficult it is for Jokowi to arrive at his final decision. If Australia and Brazil would just consider the sufferings of the people caused by the use of the drugs they wouldn't have complained unnecessarily.
Indonesia is a free nation and as such Australia and Brazil, like all other respected nations, are welcome to Indonesia, to participate in the development of the wide and large archipelago. Do come; you are welcome.
Moeljono Adikoesoemo
Jakarta
For more than 30 years, people-to-people friendship and diplomacy has brought the two societies good. As alumni of the Indonesia-Australia Youth Exchange and a Red Cross person on the ground in Aceh since the first days, I felt the pain of true friendship hurt by counterproductive comments from politicians.
Bernie Djonoputro
I understand the Indonesians and President Jokowi wanting respect, but Australia is also entitled to respect. We are not asking for our money back.
We gave that to you from our hearts. We returned after terrorists nearly destroyed Bali and several of those terrorists are walking free on the very streets where they killed more than 200 innocent people.
There is obviously a language barrier between our leaders that has caused grave misunderstandings. We are not racist. If we were, why would we be begging for mercy for two men who certainly do not look Australian? We are asking your leaders to reconsider the death penalty. Killing is not the solution. It will not solve the problems your country and ours are facing. Let us work together, united and help each other.
We must love our neighbor, not kill. Please, the powerful leaders of Indonesia, let us all live in peace and help each other. Show your strengths from your hearts. Please reconsider your death penalty laws. It is not the way of modern society.
Janet Clark
We gave aid to the people who suffered from the tsunami because we care about our fellow human beings, regardless of what country they come from and what their governments might say or do.
Tony Abbott's words are highly inappropriate and don't represent the views of Australians.
Sandra Therese Thibodeaux
I think Indonesia is doing the right thing by ensuring drugs and narcotics smuggling by foreigners is totally under control. Indonesia will be among the 10 largest economies.
Countries like Australia will be nobody by then. Even if today Indonesia ceases live animal imports from Australia, the local economy in several states will be profoundly impacted.
Secondly, Australia is not exactly in a position to preach as they were the ones who held young juveniles from Indonesian boats in prisons alongside adults and they were being persecuted.
Reger Simon
It's all just a smoke screen stirred up by politicians to divert attention so that they can go on plundering the nation's wealth with less scrutiny. Unfortunately Jokowi seems to have got caught up in this nationalistic claptrap. Indonesia has no cause for complaint as it does exactly the same when its citizens face the same thing overseas.
Fred Frigley
The Indonesian government is not assessing the diplomatic consequences. Everyone knows that the judiciary is corrupt and that convicts who have money pay judges for minor penalties.
Vald Froner
I am Brazilian and I would like to say that I do support the Indonesian government in this case.
First of all, our current government does not have any fair standards regarding human rights. It argues against Indonesia, which will kill a criminal man, but it does support many 'pariah' states that kill their own civilians for political reasons.
Croolery Auburn
It is extremely regrettable that the shortsighted diplomacy of President Dilma Rousseff mixes traffickers' police problems with diplomacy and puts at risk international relationships with such a friendly country.
Saul Gomes Neto
