Australia defends its efforts to get 5 detainees out of Papua

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Updated May 27, 2009 20:39:42

Australia's government has defended its efforts to release five Australians stranded in Indonesia's Papua province. The five are currently under "city detention" in Merauke, where they have been since September last year, when they were detained for entering Papua without valid visas. The case is still before the courts, but some have suggested the hold-up is partly due to the Australian Government's complacency regarding the case of the five.

Presenter: Steve Holland
Speaker: Dr. Richard Chauvel, Head of the Department of Asian and International Studies, Victoria University; Amirudin Al Rahab, ELSAM - Indonesia's Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy. Statement from Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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