Boat turnback policy unacceptable: Burke INDONESIA has made it perfectly clear again that the coalition's proposed asylum seeker boat turnback policy isn't acceptable, Immigration Minister Tony Burke says. Mr Burke said no one could argue that the turnback policy was anything other than unilateral action. Even before Prime Minister Kevin Rudd travelled to Jakarta for talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian government had made it clear it opposed the coalition policy, he said. In the joint communique on Friday, both leaders stressed "the importance of avoiding unilateral actions" which might jeopardise a comprehensive regional approach and which might cause operational or other difficulties to any party." "We didn't need this communique to know that Indonesia was opposed to what Tony Abbott has been saying," Mr Burke told Sky News. Mr Burke said the bigger concern now was the coalition's insistence that the reference to unilateral action in the communique didn't apply to them. "To think that spinning the words around will solve the problem where you have got something loud and clear in a communique like this is another layer of evidence from Mr Abbott and Mr Morrison (that) they are far more concerned with cute words than in actually dealing with this issue," he said. Mr Burke said the proposed Malaysia agreement, whereby Australia would send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia for processing and accept back 4000 refugees for settlement, was based on numbers proportionate to the size of the international problem at that time. He said there had now been an escalation in numbers. "Certainly that 800 places that were available under the Malaysia agreement on their own would not be enough to deal with the size of the regional problem we have now," he said. Mr Burke said the next step would be the summit hosted by President Yudhoyono. It will be out of that that we get to the next point which is a serious professional approach to a very significant regional problem. That's the way you have to deal with it, not with a slogan of turn back the boats," he said.