Surely you've been around long enough to know countries in any relationship don't hold themselves to the same level of accountability they demand of the other? That's due to the domestic politics being different in each country.
And your point is ...? Of course domestic politics affects each country from different perspectives. Domestic politics are affecting Indonesia on this issue as much as domestic politics is affecting Australia.
However in this case it is Australia who is the destination of the people traffic, not Indonesia. And as this is entirely the result of a previous Australian governments policy it is up to Australia to take responsibility for stopping it, if that's what it wants to do now.
Australia is not demanding or even asking Indonesia to stop the traffic - just asking it to acquiesce in Australia stopping traffic by turning Indonesian boats, crewmen and foreign nationals back to Indonesia where the boats came from.
If it were Australian people smugglers as per your example, it would be Australian outrage that stopped it not Indonesian.
I presume you wouldn't argue Indonesia would not be outraged and demand the traffic be stopped?
Indonesia has in fact been acquiescing in the boat turn backs since around Dec 23 at a time when it was supposedly fiercely non co-operating with Australia.
Indonesia may well be a third world country, but it is not at all unsophisticated, has been a democracy for over 10 years and has had a very, very long association with Australia. So has its military and intelligence people. So it is very well versed in real politic. Back after election it would have calculated that Tony Abbott has a clear mandate for his border protection policy and has probably won at least a two term majority.
Real politic (aka logic) therefore suggests that Indonesia judges that the people smuggler industry has run its course, and is already positioning itself to get the issue off the table for the highest price they can get out of Tony Abbott.
Current stuff is just opportunistic posturing to raise the price. You know that, JD.