COMMENT In March 2011, 30,000 copies of the Christian ‘New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs’ in Bahasa Malaysia were impounded at Port Kuching. At the same time as this news came to be known, it was highlighted that 5,100 copies of the Alkitab had been impounded at Port Klang since March 2009 and had been sitting there for two years. These 5,100 copies had remained impounded even though Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had ordered their release in December 2009.