Protest planned at Australian embassy in Jakarta as spy row grows


  • World
  • Thursday, 21 Nov 2013

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia warned travellers to Indonesia of a planned demonstration at its embassy in Jakarta on Thursday as anger grows over reports Canberra spied on top Indonesians, including the president and his wife.

Relations between the key trading and strategic neighbours have slumped to their lowest ebb since 1999 after media this week reported that Australia's spy agency had tried to tap President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's mobile phone and those of his wife and senior officials in 2009.

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