The country that connects Indo-China countries and the South East Asia countries declared state of emergency this morning. While the captain of the country is currently placed in a very strategic point of exit of the country, I believe he will not abandon the ship before the owner of the ship requires him to do so. The question of whether he will be ask to abandon the ship now or later still open for speculation, I wonder how the owner of the ship will respond towards the demand put forward by the passengers against the captain of the ship. So far, the ship has seen three different captains yet the passengers remain unhappy. It is impossible to ask the passengers to leave the ship if they are not pleased with the captain however; it would be unrealistic too to keep on changing the captain just because the passengers are not happy with him. As the passengers are more loyal to the owner instead of the captain, which is acceptable, I wonder how far this situation can remain “under control”. Considering the current global financial turmoil, to have another coup would put the company into an acute situation hence this will also put another regional player under the limelight. Having the hold over the most strategic location in S.E.A, this ship is presumed to face tough situation in the next few months if the current ‘in-house’ crisis reaches its boiling point before time.

While this part of the region remains critically uncertain, the other side of the region is also facing tough times. Last weeks, this ship was given a big applause by the media for their victory to undertake the sea pirates. Seen as a major breakthrough by many that concerned, this week the same ship is facing another critical moment, domestically. As they are busy battling with the sea pirates offshore to safeguard their energy interest, onshore, the situation with the land pirates has escalated to a new juncture. As the battle with the land pirates remains vague, the number of casualties continues to amplify and the identity of the ‘real’ culprit is still remain unknown in spite of the responsible claim made by an extremist yesterday. As the current crisis involves foreign hostages as well as foreign terrorists, the captain of the ship is bound to make prompt decision considering the domestic interest without inviting foreign assistant.

Are we seeing a reshuffle in international politics as well as the international security? With my limited knowledge and here I am, admitting my weaknesses, I believe I’m observing something that I would not want to observe. While the region managed to shield itself from the recent global financial attack, I’m not sure about this one thus I would avoid from commenting further. Let’s hope and see if the regional body is capable to handle such delicate issue shrewdly as well as tackling the real culprit. Talking about international politics, recently we are seeing a lot of new and promising world leaders such as Barrack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Nicholas Sarchozy and many others who emerged to replace the old and soon to be expired regime leader and I continue asking myself “Are we going to see the re-emergence of the old term of ‘the new world order’?”…