A former Indonesian minister suggested today that Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad should face a harsher "social sanction" for his alleged slur against the Bugis community.

Indonesia’s former law and human rights minister Hamid Awaludin said Malaysians must condemn Mahathir's use of racial issues for political mileage.

"The most just course of action to take against Mahathir is a moral action or a social sanction. What is a social sanction? To sneer at his character as a senior leader, (but one) with bad morals...