Tony Abbott's image in Indonesia has hit a new low with a front-page cartoon in a serious political newspaper depicting him as a peeping tom.

The middle-brow broadsheet, Rakyat Merdeka, whose title literally means The Freedom of the People, caricatured the Australian Prime Minister as prising open a door marked "Indonesia" to peep inside.

Ridiculed: Tony Abbott in Sydney on Saturday. Credit:James Brickwood

As he is shown to drool, sweat and masturbate, he is moaning, "Ssst! Oh My God Indo ... So Sexy".