Sidney Jones*
*) Senior Adviser, International Crisis Group, Jakarta.

IN the wake of the hotel bombings on 17 July, many Indonesians still seem to believe that Noordin is an agent of the Malaysian government working to destabilize Indonesia. The myth feeds into anti-Malaysian sentiment, with the bombings coming in the wake of the Ambalat dispute and the Manuhara soap opera.

But it’s a dangerous myth, because it absolves Indonesians of respo