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Indonesia And Malaysia Relations Essay

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Why have Indonesia and Malaysia relations been negative since their independent?
The international relation has been changed and shaped in several ways according to foreign affairs. Numerous of conflicted are occurring all over the world and it is impacted from many factors. Indonesia and Malaysia are the two countries that locate in Southeast Asia. They are also the two neighboring nations which share many similar aspects such as history, culture, religion and language. Due to those similarities, Indo-Malay relationship still confront with unstably relation which is become the concerning point for international community. The sour relations have been strained by various matters; however, this paper will examine how the political and cultural …show more content…

Confrontation, sometimes known as konfrontasi, was occurred around 1960s when Malaysia announced the Federation of Malaysia in May 1961. It was an undeclared war where the action was taken on the border of Indonesia and East Malaysia, located on Borneo Island. Sukarno, the president of the Republic of Indonesia, reacted negatively through Malaysia formation since he had had ambitious on extending Indonesia’s territories by including North Borneo Island into its territories in order to from it bigger. Otherwise, Indonesia also regarded that the creation of Malaysia federation had been backed by the Malaysia colonial power, British; which caused Indonesia to assume that there would be the extension of the neocolonialism in South East Asia. The actual war started when there was a radical Muslim movement, the north Kalimantan National army, revolted in Brunei in 1962 December. However, it was defeated by British troops; on the last day of revolt, Indonesia rose inflammatory to Malaysia border where the tension occurred. In addition, on 20 January 1963, the Indonesia announced the policy of confrontation toward Malaysia. Moreover, gangyang Malaysia or Crush Malaysia was announced on 27 July 1963 by Sukarno in the response to the establishment of Malaysia formation after an agreement between President Sukarno and Tunku Abdul Rahman which had agreed to held the plebiscite before the federation was formed; was broken when Tunku signed the London agreement on 9 July in order to settle the formation of Malaysia Federation 31 August 1963. Due to the Claret involved by the commonwealth troops, Australia and New Zeland, forced Indonesia onto the defensive and prevented Indonesia incursion into Northern Borneo; at the same time by having internal strike in Indonesia

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