On Sept 2, about 30 Indonesian students protested at our Embassy in Jakarta, pelting eggs for allegedly copying their Terang Bulan for our national anthem.

They have protested against us for our ships moving into the Sulawasei Sea at Ambalat.

And yet we still welcome hundred of Indonesians to cross over from Kalimantan into Sarawak and Sabah, and issue them MyKads much to the chagrin of their foreign policy.

I have often encountered rude foreigners from Indonesia, the Philippines and Africa. And yet we run over and sit beside their leaders and shake hands and take photographs together in the spirit of brotherhood.

If we look at the plantations and all the factories, we will find out for ourselves that there are no more local people working at the production areas. They are all reserved for Indonesians.

Whatever jobs they do not take are then given to our own people. A frantic lopsided labour policy that has never been rewritten since the time of the late V Manicksvasagam, who played the most important role in devising our labour policies along with the late K Pathmanahan.

During the early 60s, I remember seeing Indian and Chinese workers largely being employed as municipal workers.

And while we allow foreign workers to take on better jobs at the comfortable supermarkets and complexes, we see again the Indians and Chinese now being employed by City Hall to revive history once again at the roadsides.

And Indians and Chinese have never ever pelted eggs at any of our leaders be it Hishamuddin Hussein or Samy Vellu or Chua Soi Lek as ‘honourable' as they may be. And yet they must be content with the roadsides.