cartoons, Aussie and Indie style

[jawnbc]

There's been a bit of a discursive dust-up between Indonesia and Australia. And it's included some cartoons--sound familiar? The catalyst was the granting of temporary refugee status (of a sort) to several Papuan Indonesians by Australia.

First an Indonesian newspaper came out with this lovely example of the expressive arts:



Dude in the front is Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer. He's being pumped from behind by the Right Honourable Little Johnnie Howard, Prime Minister of Australia.

An Australian paper returned the favour:



That's the Indonesian PM, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono banging a Papuan

Who says diplomacy is dead?

Comments

[mikeybill.livejournal.com]

I really like the Australian response to this one - and as much as I loathe Howard et al, the way that Indonesia has treated West Papua is a real crime, one that gets ignored all the time.