With the loss of East Timor in 1999 still fresh in the national psyche, issues of national sovereignty and territorial integrity became a super-sensitive subject to report. It did not help that Indonesia lost control of the Sipadan-Ligitan Islands to Malaysia in 2002 following the verdict of an international tribunal which tried the dispute between the two countries. Hence the 2005 peace agreement between the government and GAM (Free Aceh Movemen