"This book discusses the foreign relations between Indonesia and Malaysia.
The liberty of movement of British armed forces in the Malayan territories is being connived at because, after all, ’’responsibility for security” is officially acknowledged to be in the hands of the British. And that is why the Supreme Command is still in London. The so-called ’’Ministry of Defence of Malaysia” has no significance at all because the relationship between ’’British Forces” in ’’Malaysia” and this ’’ministry” is merely of a consultative nature.
Apart from 36 rocket bases and other military installations, Britain has also set up Bloodhound guided missile systems. Military aircraft of the latest designs are being flown to ’’Malaysian” soil. Mention must also be made of the British Fleet in Southeast Asia and part of which has been maneuvring Indonesian waters.
Deployment of these forces is being made on the pretext that they are to check ’’infiltration by Indonesian troops” and ”to clean up the communists in the country”.
The facts are however that long before Indonesia’s confrontation of ’’Malaysia” was announced. And this ’’Agreement” was merely a slightly improved continuation of the ’’Defence Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Malayan Federation” concluded on May 27, 1957, and of the ’’Agreement on External Defence and Mutual Assistance” between the same parties.
While in such a strong grip of a foreign power Tunku Abdul Rahman boasts that the ’’Malaysia” project is an ’’independent state”.
The presense of foreign troops on Malayan soil will obviously mean oppression for as long as 10 centuries for the Malayan people. And the presence of foreign soldiers in the Malayan region will forever pose a permanent threat to the Republic of Indonesia, to the Revolution of the Indonesian People. And more than that the presence of foreign soldiers in the Malayan lands constitutes a constant threat to peace in South-
East Asia and to world peace."
