PRESIDENT Joko Widodo has done enough by joining in the condemnation of the speech by French President Emmanuel Macron. Indonesia and France are not enemies and the two nations have often worked together. Macron’s comments must be seen as proportionate because France, unlike Indonesia, is a secular state.

The row started with the October 16 killing of Samuel Paty by a youth from Chechnya named Abdoullakh Abouyezidovitc. Paty was murdered