Prof Colin Brown discusses the political aspects from both Australia and Indonesia of asylum seeker boats. The upcoming election sin Australia could mean that Tony Abbott’s hard line of turning boats back could take effect. However, Indonesia is also going into an election in July 2014 and it is unclear what stance their new leader will take on this issue.
You can read the whole article from The Conversation here: http://theconversation.com/does-indonesia-care-about-turning-back-the-boats-15367