Finally, a sane response ro a non-story.
Even is some "news" outlet did report this, so what? It just like Katrina, the border, you name it. The press is there, whipping things up. And making things up.
Now, I don't doubt that there are people who have lost everything and aren't thinking too straight. A reporter could manage to get one of them to say just about anything, and voila! There's a story.
I lived in Indonesia for a year and Americans were generally very well liked. I took many cab rides and in my halting Bahassa Indonesia heard the same answer over and over again from the cab drivers. Per the Jakarta cabbies, they liked Americans best. And who did they like least? I got this anwer a dozen times over; the French and the Arabs.
Indonesia is one of the major fleshpots for the arabs. The arabs are apparently very abusive physically toward the Indonesian party girls and prostitutes. As for the French? Just rude and arrogant. They may have been saying that they like Americans best to incrase the size of their tip, but they had no self-interesting in singling-out the French and the Arabs.