Neighbour Indonesia rock bottom on Australians’ list of favourite countries.
A poll surveying Australians’ attitudes to foreign countries has seen Indonesia rank last, with the country having a net minus 38% likeability factor for Indonesia’s neighbours Down Under. The worst rated countries in Australia:
Australians were most favourable to:
The poll was conducted by the Australian branch of New Zealand company UMR Research in late February/early March 2010. The full poll does not appear to be online as yet. theage
John Utting, managing director of UMR, said it appeared Australians were, curiously, least favourable to the countries that would be most important to that country’s future – Indonesia, India and China, while favourably disposed to countries such as New Zealand and the UK, these latter being of little importance to Australia.
This post isn’t logical!, Bali and the Balinese are loved by Australians, Bali is very popular …. Its odd to have a post and not mention the survey….. what it is for? it could refer to how clean public toilets are….
Comments like these are dangerous and give idiots like the Bali bombers and the Australian embassy bombers a reason to bomb and spread hate.
Might “race” have something to do with this? It seems to trump many things in Australia. Just wondering…
No I’m aware Bali is a part of indonesia, Its lovely though, there people are friendly and not aggressive. Yes there is a calmness there! so I like it.
Since making my first statement at the top I have noticed its started to get a bit racist againts anything western… I think if some people here where to walk through most Western cities of the world you would find them very multi cultural.
I’m assuming a lot of comments are not coming from Bali.
I guess I’ll stop my comments now. I started the first one as a positive thing from my perspective but it seems it going to turn ugly.
And to Patung…. excuse my ignorance but when I do ask people of Indonesia where they are from they often say what they are, their home territory.. stating there religion or lack of it. there form of ethnicity etc. I can only speak for Bali as they seemed to be very welcoming.
I think that the Australian attitude towards Indonesia has very little to do with racism and a lot with the bad news we have had over the years out of Papua, East Timor and Bali (the bombing). The ongoing saga of the “Balibo Five” (the five Australian journalists that were in all likelihood deliberately murdered by the Indonesian army during the invasion of East Timor) hasn’t helped either. There is now, after thirty five years, an inquiry into this affair by the Australian Federal Police.
Dikkiman Sujengkol, Banjo Paterson wrote most of his stuff a century or more ago. It is a bit strange to search for evidence there on current Australian attitudes.
You referred to Paterson and not to Renouf. For the rest is your reaction too primitive to further bother about.
How did Israel get to be the second least liked country in Australia, what the heck has Israel ever done to Australia?
Berlian Biru,
You asked an intriguing question. I was surprised (though I will not hide it: also encouraged) by that too, because Australia’s official stance has always been pro-Israel. Apparently the reports about Gaza (particularly the inquiry by that South African judge) and the recent passport affair – in which even the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs came out of his shell – have started to work.
But aren’t you from Ireland? I thought that in Ireland public opinion is even more radically anti-Israel – and there you can ask the same question: what has Israel ever done to Ireland. Apparently people are not just offended by things done to themselves or their country.
this is a cooked up poll. they planned to get that result.
there were just 10 countries to choose from, and the other options are like: US, Germany, UK,Japan, New Zealand.. no Burma or North Korea.
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Not sure why Indonesia or India would rank below places like, say, Pakistan, Burma, Somalia, DR Congo, North Korea, or Sudan. A little silly, really.