JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesians burned Australian flags on Thursday over reports Australia's spies tried to tap the phones of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife, plunging relations between the neighbours to their lowest point since the late 1990s.
About 200 people marched to the heavily fortified Australian embassy in Jakarta - the scene of a 2004 bombing that killed 10 people - to demand an apology over the alleged spying, which prompted Yudhoyono to downgrade diplomatic relations with Canberra on Wednesday.
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