Michael Bachelard – Indonesia will call back its ambassador to Australia and "review" Australian diplomatic positions in Jakarta as anger rises in Indonesia over revelations that Australia tapped the phone of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife.
Asked how long Indonesian ambassador Nadjib Riphat Kesoema could be expected to be out of Australia, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said: "I told him not to bring a cabin bag", suggesting it could be a lengthy stint back in Jakarta.
A statement issued by the office of the Co-ordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security, Djoko Suyanto, on Monday evening said Indonesia would contact Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to say the [spying] issue was not healthy for the Indonesia-Australia relationship and ask Australia to provide an official and public explanation for their actions.
It wanted Australia to make a commitment not to repeat its actions and said it would summon to Jakarta the Indonesian ambassador for a "consultation".
The Indonesian Foreign Department would also review the co-operation on the exchange of information between the Indonesian and Australian governments, including the assignments of Australian officers in the Australian embassy in Jakarta; and review all co-operation on the exchange of information and other co-operation with Australia.
"It is nothing less than an unfriendly act which is having already a very serious impact on our bilateral relations," Mr Natalegawa said at a press conference.
"We have heard and followed the clarifications and information provided by the Australian side... we are not satisfied with the kind of dismissive answer provided, as if this is an activity that has been carried out as a matter of course.
"This is not a clever thing. It's not a smart thing to do. It violates every single decent and legal instrument that I can think of. National in Indonesia, national in Australia, international as well."
The revelations that Australian spies tried to tap the phones of Mr Yudhoyono and his wife prompted the President to call in his own security agency to investigate as a furious reaction erupted among Jakarta's political elite.
The spying revelations have "devastated" the President, according to his special adviser for political affairs, Daniel Sparringa.
"Until today, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has always paid special attention toward the deepening of the two countries relations. Therefore the news has devastated us.
"Indonesia's concerns on the issues have been long shown by our government's official inquiries to the Australian ambassador earlier.
"If no serious acts are taken to immediately end the issues, it will continue to impede our countries' [relationship]. President SBY hopes that the Australian government would re-evaluate the approaches used to collect information."
Australia's deputy ambassador to Indonesia, David Engel, has also been called into the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs to answer questions about the spying revelations.
Last time the Indonesians recalled their ambassador to Australia was in 2006, over Papuan asylum seekers.
Documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that in 2009 Australia's Defence Signals Directorate targeted the personal mobile numbers of both Dr Yudhoyono and his wife, Kristiani Herawati, as well as eight others in the President's inner circle, including the Vice-President.
On Monday morning, Dr Yudhoyono instructed the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) to find out which Indonesian officials were the subject of phone tapping and to advise him what to do about it. His spokesman, Teuku Faizasyah, also called on the Australian government to "urgently... clarify this news to avoid further damage". "The damage has been done and now trust must be rebuilt," Mr Faiza said.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott declined to comment on the specific allegations, but defended information gathering in principle while reiterating that the relationship with Indonesia was "all in all our most important". "All governments gather information... and all governments know that every other government gathers information," he said.
However, Australia used information to "help our friends and our allies, not to harm them". "My first duty is to protect Australia and to advance our national interest and I will never ever depart from that. Consistent with that duty, I will never say or do anything that might damage the strong relationship and the close co-operation that we have with Indonesia."
The revelation will add to tensions between the two nations, which are already heightened over boat turn-backs and Indonesia's dissatisfaction with the Abbott government's explanation of earlier revelations of spying.
It's understood that the President called his closest advisers together tonight to discuss the allegations and a response, as senior members of Indonesia's parliament pressed him to take a firm line.
Senior members of parliament and people the subject of phone taps reacted furiously.
A deputy chairman of the parliament's foreign affairs committee, Tubagus Hasanuddin, said Australia had "crossed the line" and that ambassador Greg Moriarty should be ejected from the country if Australia did not provide a timely explanation.
The revelation was contained in documents leaked by Edward Snowden and revealed by the ABC and website Guardian Australia on Monday.
The phones of the President, his wife who is known as Ibu Ani, Vice-President Boediono, former vice-president Yusuf Kalla and Dr Yudhoyono's foreign affairs spokesman, Dino Patti Djalal, were all targeted as were a number of senior ministers.
Mr Dino, until recently Indonesia's ambassador to Washington, Yusuf Kalla, and another spying victim, Hatta Rajasa, have presidential ambitions in elections next year. Another minister on the list, though, Andi Mallarengeng, has been detained by the country's anti-corruption commission.
The documents reportedly reveal that Australia attempted to listen to Mr Yudhoyono's personal phone calls on at least one occasion in 2009.
The material comes in the form of a slide presentation. One slide entitled "IA Leadership Targets + Handsets" bears the names of the top political figures, the types of phones they own and the network they use – which in all cases is 3G.
The slide's footer bears an Australian Defence Department slogan: "Reveal their secrets – Protect our own".
Another slide is titled "Indonesian President Voice Events" and has a graphic of calls from Mr Yudhoyono's Nokia phone over 15 days in November 2009.
Mr Dino told ABC's 7.30 that he felt "very violated" by the tapping. Mr Hatta, who was state secretary, said he was concerned because, at the time, he was discussing "state secrets, which were certainly not for public consumption, let alone for another country's".
And former vice-president Yusuf Kalla said "there must have been sensitive information" discussed, but at the time the two countries had "a good relationship".
The deputy speaker of the Indonesian parliament, Budi Priyo Santoso, said there was great anger at the revelations among MPs.
"I'm deeply disappointed and upset... Why would they use this kind of thing if they try to conduct their diplomacy to a high moral standard? We need clarification, otherwise it will affect our bilateral relationship... Already many MPs have expressed their anger at this, it's becoming a very hot discussion," he said.
The bugging of Ibu Ani would not appear simply to be an attempt to extract personal information about the President, but to have an ear to one of the most important policy relationships in Indonesia.
In a 2007 WikiLeaks cable, Ibu Ani was named by US diplomats as the country's "cabinet of one", and sources in Jakarta's political elite described her as having a "gatekeeper role" to the President halfway through his first term.
The latest leak follows revelations that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was bugged by US spies the National Security Agency. Dr Merkel was outraged by the discovery and complained directly to US President Barack Obama.
Tensions are already high between Australia and Indonesia on the matter of surveillance after Fairfax Media reported that the Australian embassy in Jakarta was being used to house electronic spying equipment.
Last week during his visit to Canberra, Vice-President Boediono said the Indonesian public was concerned about the previous spying revelations and called for a truce on using information gathered by spying against each other.
"I think we must look forward to come to some arrangement which guarantees that intelligence information from each side is not used against the other. There must be a system,"' he said.
After those reports, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa threatened to reduce co-operation on people-smuggling and counter-terrorism.
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam called for an immediate inquiry, saying that Australian intelligence gathering and the US surveillance program were out of control.
Former Coalition government foreign minister Alexander Downer said the revelations were damaging to Australia. "It's a shocking situation in which Australia will pay a big price," Sky News cited Mr Downer as saying.