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Quote by: fushigi  No, not the US government. The US. |
Here is more detail on the Indonesian poll:
Indonesia: Indonesian views of the United States have declined sharply over the past year. A large majority (71%) now sees the US influence as mainly negative (up from 47% in 2006), while positive views of the US dropped from 40 to 21 percent. These dramatically negative views of the US also correspond to the broad Indonesian criticism of US foreign policy. Overwhelming majorities disapprove of the US handling of the war Iraq (85%), the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon (81%), Iran’s nuclear program (77%), North Korea’s nuclear weapons program (73%), and the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo and other prisons (72%). A smaller majority of Indonesians (52%) also disapproves of the US handling of global warming. Not surprisingly, more than four in five (83%) in Indonesia sees the US military presence as a destabilizing force in the Middle East.
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pi...n07_bgasia.pdf
All of the issues mentioned involve US foreign policy, a function of the US government. Indonesians don't hate Americans per se anymore than Germans, who actually polled higher negatives regarding the US. But if you insist that Indonesians and Germans disapprove of our entire nation, government and society and everything else, then I suppose we'll simply have to disagree.