Beyond the population and proximity, I'm not characterising anything. You're reading in a lot into my comment. But in Australian politics, Indonesia as a poten

Beyond the population and proximity, I'm not characterising anything. You're reading in a lot into my comment. But in Australian politics, Indonesia as a potential, albeit very unlikely, threat has been discussed, with the point being that 275 million people in a somewhat politically unstable country has that potential. It's only in this century that Indonesia has become a functioning democracy and has had authoritarian and sometimes brutal leaders, slaughtering hundreds of thousands, in the not so distant past. It currently has relatively good relations with Australia but they are not close or secure. No one is accusing them of anything but there is a non-zero chance of them becoming a threat.