ZONAJAKARTA.com – Malaysia in defense doctrine has an alliance called Five Power Defense Arrangement aka FPDA.
Malaysia go into FPDA in 1971.
Besides Malaysia, FPDA has other members namely Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
It can be seen that England is the root cause of the formation here FPDA.
The most important article of formation FPDA is that if one member is attacked then the other member must help him.
For example, in the case of Ambalat 2004-2006, if Indonesia start a war with Malaysia then the risk of being attacked by Britain, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.
The four countries will automatically declare war on Indonesia.
But it’s a different story when Malaysia who started the war first, then the four countries above could not help Kuala Lumpur against their enemies.
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