RELATIONS between Indonesia and Malaysia have not been at such a low ebb since the establishment of ASEAN. And this unhappy state of affairs has not been helped by senior officials and politicians in Kuala Lumpur.

Last week, in Bali, Datuk Seri Zainudin, Malaysia’s Information Minister, said that the media in Indonesia had been “overzealous” with the freedom it was “granted” since the fall of the New Order. He condemned the Indonesian