WE frowned when Malaysia, which is busily promoting the Visit Malaysia Year 2009, claimed the reog dance, the angklung instrument, the song Rasa Sayange and the pendet dance as its own culture—although the latter was not supported by the government. What is really happening with our brothers in the Malay Peninsula?

For months we have been musing over our neighbor, which recently has become even more difficult to recognize; Malaysia, the countr