Editor's Note - Issue 2004:6

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Crime and the threat to our public security is the focus of our cover story. Francis Loh expresses concern that the barrage of media reports on snatch thefts, rapes, killings etc has instilled a sense of fear and panic and inadvertently a call for more policing and harsher laws. Yet there is a need for police reforms first.

The back cover story by Phillip Khoo discusses the �taming of the Dayaks� - or how, as a result of self interest and a tussle for power among Dayak leaders, the community has been split and the Dayak majority in the rural areas left with a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness.

Read the third instalment of the inside story of the 1988 judicial crisis by former Supreme Court judge Datuk George Seah. This time, the story centres on the drama in and around court as Tun Salleh�s lawyers sought an urgent sitting of the country�s highest court.

In our last issue, we took a look at the use of the ISA in Malaysia. This time, Andrew Aeria reports on the recent use of the ISA in Brunei.

In the second and final part of his analysis of media coverage during Election 2004, Wong Kok Keong looks at how the print media fared and discovers a shocking lack of journalistic integrity. He also looks back at Euro 2004 and wonders what the fuss and the frenzy was all about.

Meanwhile, Mustafa K Anuar reviews an important new book by Prof Gary Rodan of Murdoch University on media and transparency - or the lack of it - in Singapore and Malaysia.

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