Jakarta (ANTARA News) - House of Representatives (DPR) Deputy Speaker Pramono Anung has criticized the talks with Malaysia in Kinabalu on Monday as "too diplomatic and too soft."

"The Indonesian nation actually expected Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa to have more dignity in the talks," he said to newsmen at the parliament building here on Tuesday.

The former secretary general of the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP) said the Indonesian nation had expected Marty to demonstrate a stronger stance on how the country`s sovereignty had to be defended although the country has 2.2 million migrant workers in Malaysia who also need protection.

For the DPR he said what was important was not whether the results of the talks were documented or not but the implementation of the results of the talks.

"(What is important) is whether there will be improvement and whether Malaysia will respect Indonesia more," he said.

He said the talks in Kinabalu on Monday were still too diplomatic, what had been exposed did not show that the Indonesian nation did not have self-respect.

In terms of diplomacy he said Malaysian foreign minister Anifah Aman perhaps should not have offered an apology verbally but should have put it in the note that he gave to Marty Natalegawa.

"I did not see it being conveyed by the Malaysian minister," he said.

He said Marty Natalegawa meanwhile had made an apology verbally as well as in a written form in the note given to the Malaysian foreign minister.

(H-YH/F001/S026)

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