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Smugglers\' Paradise

Reporter: Sarah Ferguson

Broadcast: 29/07/2010

It\'s one of the biggest issues in the election campaign. While Australia spends millions of dollars
to stop the flow of asylum seeker boats, its efforts are constantly undermined by criminals and
corrupt military and government officials. These operators have worked in secret... until now.

Four Corners has caught them on camera.

Most asylum seekers are terrified to take on the people smugglers. Reporter Sarah Ferguson meets one
who is not. This asylum seeker is determined to expose the people smugglers who use refugees as
\"commodities\". In a series of hidden camera stings, the smugglers and their accomplices are filmed
talking about boats, bribes and Australian border security.

Australia\'s attempts to stop the boats includes funding Indonesia\'s immigration detention centres
but, as Four Corners reveals, that policy is being undermined by corruption at senior levels in the
Indonesian Immigration Department. In an investigation carried out over months, Four Corners has
made the connection between the immigration racket, the smugglers and the military who protect the
smugglers\' boats on their way to Australia.

It\'s a confronting picture for the Australian Government dealing with the politically explosive
issue of the boats. How effective are Australia\'s border protection polices, in the face of endemic
corruption in Indonesia?

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