Indonesia 'downgrading' Australia ties amid spying row

Indonesia is "downgrading" ties with Canberra over allegations that Australian spy agencies tried to tap the phones of the president and his inner circle, the foreign minister has said. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had already announced Indonesia would review its cooperation with Australia over the scandal and late Tuesday Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa went further, telling reporters: "We are downgrading Australia's relations with us. "We will review Australia-Indonesia relations generally... to make sure that it is not business as usual, not like it used to be," he added. He declined to go into detail but a foreign ministry source said one step could be cutting the number of Indonesian diplomatic personnel in Canberra and asking Australia to do the same in Jakarta.

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