KUPANG, Indonesia: The Australian navy has turned an asylum-seeker boat back to Indonesia without first informing authorities there, Indonesian police said on Tuesday, as part of Canberra’s hardline border policies that have angered Jakarta.

It is the first reported instance in which the new Australian government has turned a boat back without Indonesian cooperation, and could add to recent tensions between Jakarta and Canberra sparked by a spying row.

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