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Ready for war?
The Jakarta Post | Tue, 06/09/2009 4:03 PM | National
Members of the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) rally Tuesday in front of the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta to protest Malaysia's violation of the Indonesian border in Ambalat waters. Participants of the rally, which included several Muslim youth groups, said they were ready to wage war against Malaysia over Ambalat. JP/J. Adiguna
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Nusa Dua Hotels (not verified) — Thu, 06/11/2009 - 12:27pm
Malaysia has far greater military capacity than Indonesia. Military experts like Janes state Indonesia's personnel are poorly trained for warfare as they a) are primarily used for civil control, b) spend a lot of their time sourcing funding (security services for foreign corporations for example) and c) are so corrupt they spend too little on equipment and training. Singapore has greater military ability then Indonesia. So FBR are simply trying to bring their country to an embarrassing end, not least as a military defeat might well trigger something totally unpalatable to Jakarta, the prospect of disintegration.
H. Mara (not verified) — Thu, 06/11/2009 - 4:32am
forget war, lets increase the peace folks.
Nasionalis (not verified) — Wed, 06/10/2009 - 11:09pm
all of you malaysian what ever you want to say about us, at least we are not a bunch of thiefs. we have 200 million people ready to die for our integrity. we are ready to go to war with your people.
we earned our freedom and we fought for it, and it was not a gift from western countries. i recalled the british gave your freedom.
so think again before your stupid mouth say something.
Iain — Thu, 06/11/2009 - 2:39pm
Nasionalis, I think you're the one who should think before speaking.
Obtaining freedom without fighting for it is something to be proud of.
Wars are for people too dumb and impatient to use diplomacy. Just look at George Bush. Do you really want to compare yourself to him?
David K. — Wed, 06/10/2009 - 6:22pm
I find malaysian rhetoric amusing, the actual need of malaysia for Indonesia far outweighs the needs of Indonesia for malaysia. Now on top of stealing cultural heritages of Indonesia they are continuing thier encroachment into Indonesian soil.
This is the easiest example of how we should see the problem :
I own a house and a thief slips in quietly and then tells me and all my neighbours that a certain portion of my front yard is in fact thiers. Now the usual response of dealing with a thief is to beat them senseless, laugh at them, then call the police whom will prosecute them to the greatest extent of the law.
In this regard, a show of force that will remind Malaysia of how insulting thier disregard of our rights to OUR land and how we will not tolerate thier sneaking around like thieves.
Would you negotiate for a part of your land with a thief?
Samsul (not verified) — Wed, 06/10/2009 - 2:58pm
Haha, they have nothing to do, they didn't have any job so they become like this. They try to show the world they are good and they are brave, in fact the real thing is they begged for mercy when they come to Malaysia to find any job. Then after we treated them nicely, they become arrogant, they ignore the malaysian law and become the criminal. So because of that, most of the malaysian didn't trust the indonesian worker, every place that this immigrant stay is a ghetto area of Malaysia, then some of the Malaysian treated them like a dog to make sure that they will obey they command from their boss. Then they keep yelling that Malaysian treated them badly in our homeland. They are scrappy coco actually...hahahahaha
Pendatang Haram (not verified) — Wed, 06/10/2009 - 10:58am
you really want war? well, get ready to bury thousands of your pendatang haram in my land....
Edet (not verified) — Wed, 06/10/2009 - 4:02am
they dont have something better to do?!!
Wild (not verified) — Tue, 06/09/2009 - 10:43pm
Stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just get a job and work as hard as you can!