More Things That (Some) Indonesians Should Claim as Theirs

Some deluded Indonesians (not all, Indonesia has 230 million people, and I refuse to believe that all of them are deluded) has laid claim to many of our shared traditions, folk songs, even our Malaysian national anthem. Of course, this makes as much sense as an older brother suing his younger siblings for having the same genes for black hair and brown skin. Never mind that we share the same ancestry, languages and dialects, cultures and history. No, it has to be theirs, and theirs alone. Admittedly, the Bali dance was mistakenly included (not by Malaysians, but by the Discovery Channel), but the Indonesians have been raising stink over stupid things such as the Rasa Sayang and Terang Bulan songs.

If they stopped and thought about it, those Bali dances has Indian and Hindu influences. Should people in India therefore burn Indonesian flags and chant "Ganyang Indonesia!"? What about the many words in Bahasa Indonesia that are borrowed from the Dutch? And what is with the "Ganyang Malaysia" slogan anyway? The last time it was used, the Indonesians got their buttocks handed back to them by Malaysian and Commonwealth forces during the Konfrontasi. You would have thought that they would have come up with a new slogan by now. So, without further ado, I present to you a list of More Things That (Some)  Indonesians Should Claim as Theirs (TM).

1. Eating rice
2. Eating said rice with your right hand
3. Having brown skin, black wavy hair
   
4. Washing with your left hand after going to the toilet
5. Taking your shoes off before going into people's houses
6. Duduk bersila
7. Bersalam
   
8. Any phrases that begins with "selamat...", heck, just claim the whole language
9. Baju batik, kain batik, kain sarong, songkok and anything that any Indonesians happens to wear today
10. Everything else so that they can feel superior to our inferior copycat Malaysians.