Australia's reputation in Indonesia hits new low...

Tony Abbott's image in Indonesia has hit a new low with a front-page cartoon in a serious political newspaper depicting him as a peeping tom.

The middle-brow broadsheet, Rakyat Merdeka, whose title literally means The Freedom of the People, caricatured the Australian Prime Minister as prising open a door marked "Indonesia" to peep inside.

As he is shown to drool, sweat and masturbate, he is moaning, "Ssst! Oh My God Indo ... So Sexy".
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The cartoon suggests that Australia's spying on the telephones of the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife Ibu Ani Yudhoyono, and his intimate circle, gave some kind of prurient pleasure to a brutish, hairy-legged Australia.

Rakyat Merdeka circulates mainly in greater Jakarta and focuses on almost exclusively political and economic news, including gossip. The subject matter is serious, but it uses common spoken language - sometimes crudely - in its headlines. Full story...

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