Clean up own backyard

Clean up own backyard

It is ridiculous how Australians have behaved toward Indonesia
in general after Corby was sentenced by the Denpasar District
Court in Bali to 20 years. They are using emotions rather than
brains in dealing with the matter.

Australians should clean up their own backyard first and catch
the corrupt Australian airport official who planted the four
kilograms of marijuana in Corby's luggage. He is responsible for
the 20 year sentence. The court in Bali was just carrying out its
duty.

Bali's prisons are crammed with foreigners who have been
caught bringing drugs into Bali. The island is flooded with
foreign and domestic tourists and therefore remains a lucrative
drug market. In the 1980s, Malaysia hanged two Australians who
smuggled drugs into their country.

Corby should be grateful that she was caught in Indonesia
rather than Malaysia. Bali will survive without Australian
visitors as the majority of tourists are the Japanese and now
Chinese from mainland China who have only recently discovered the
beauty of Bali and are now flocking to this exotic island.

LYNNA VAN DER ZEE-OEHMKE, Bogor, West Java