THE August 13 incident on the waters of Bintan-Batam has caused Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa's busy schedule to go haywire. Immediately after he received the report on the arrest of three officials from the Maritime Affairs & Fisheries Ministry (KKP) by the Malaysian Marine Police, he instructed the Indonesian ambassador and consul-general in Malaysia to keep track of the three officials.

Marty himself called the Malaysian Foreign Minister, Da