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| Subject: YaY for free trade: Indonesia spying row reopens routes for asylum seekers, say smugglers Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:22 pm | |
| People smugglers are telling asylum seekers that bad diplomatic relations between Australia and Indonesia mean the route by boat to Christmas Island is once again open for business.
The same smuggler is offering a cut-rate fee of as low as $1800 to entice people onto boats
New evidence obtained by Fairfax Media shows asylum seekers are being told not to fear arrest by Indonesian police because co-operation has been suspended in light of the phone-tapping affair.
"Nowadays it is a safe time to go to Australia because my country and Australia have a bad diplomatic relationship," one smuggler's agent in the West Java town of Cisarua told a potential client. Advertisement
In a secretly recorded conversation, one agent claimed to be working with a prominent smuggler, who cannot be named to protect a source. The agent specifically referred to the deteriorating relations between Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his pitch.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/indonesia-spying-row-reopens-routes-for-asylum-seekers-say-smugglers-20131210-2z3o4.html#ixzz2n7Zh3TLl |
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