INDONESIA'S arrogant and incompetent handling of the Chan and Sukumaran executions will redefine relations with Australia.
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The fact that a foreign power executed Australians for drug trafficking is not new. Many Australians, touched by the drug scourge, agree with it. What really rankles is the use of Australian lives for petty domestic politics in Jakarta.
They would deny this, but images of a police chief snapping a selfie with the condemned men and the comment by Indonesia's Attorney-General that the execution went off perfectly with no near misses will rile Australians.
It seemed to us that Indonesia's leaders said and did things calculated to offend us, while we struggled to understand their shambolic legal system. They treat local terrorists better than foreign drug traffickers.
They announced the timing of the executions on Anzac Day and subjected the distraught families of Chan and Sukumaran to a degrading and chaotic media scrum as they approached the island. President Joko Widodo appeared to revel in the notoriety, ignoring repeated calls from the Australian Prime Minister, while seemingly preoccupied with the domestic impact of his new tough guy image.
Of course diplomatic relations will be restored eventually. Smug Indonesian officials are blithely aware of this, with scathing remarks like: "They'll come back."
The deaths will fade into history. Hardly anyone remembers the Barlow and Chambers executions by Malaysia for drug offences in the 1980s.
But the Widodo regime's blatant arrogance towards grieving Australian sentiment will be remembered for a long time, and is likely to redefine the relationship in cultural and diplomatic terms.
What has emerged from this whole sordid exercise is an insight into Jakarta's real attitude towards its southern neighbour.
One can't help but detect distrust and jealousy. That they would uphold their laws is one thing which we do understand. That they would so callously rub our noses in it with such overt and deliberate arrogance is an entirely different matter.