Flows and Movements in the Lands below the Winds

Although there are many views about what constitutes the Malay world, my view in this perplexing issue is simple. I perceive it as a socio-geographical space in which a loose inter-connectedness, which has occurred throughout its history, has made such disparate spaces converge into more or less one integrated realm.5 It is in such an integrated realm of the Malay world that this essay will discuss the complex Indonesia–Malaysia interfaces or ‘crossing points’.