Order of battle during Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation Order of battle during Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation This is an order of battle listing the British and Commonwealth forces involved in the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation (1962–66). The following units served in North Borneo, Sarawak or Brunei between 24 December 1962 and 11 August 1966, the eligible dates for the 1962 General Service Medal with clasp BORNEO. Those marked * were based in UK. The conditions for the BORNEO clasp were 30 days service ashore in Brunei, Sabah or Sarawak or afloat in coastal waters or one operational flying sortie in support of operations ashore. In addition the MALAY PENINSULA clasp was awarded
Brunei–Indonesia relations defence, transnational crimes, education, youth, culture and people-to-people contacts. Both Brunei and Indonesia have many common characteristic traits, these include common frames of reference in history, culture and religion. Their national languages; Indonesian language and Malay language are closely related. The majority of the population of both nations were of Austronesian ancestry or of the Malay race, with significant Malay culture shared among them. Both nations are Muslim majority countries, members of ASEAN and APEC, and also members of the Non-aligned Movement, and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Relations between Indonesia and Brunei has been established since 14th century or perhaps