This article attempts to answer some of the questions relevant to the cause of Singapore’s secession and to project the future course of the Federation. It seems that the various societal diversities have already weakened the political unity of the Federation in view of the fact that Malaysia has neither sustained these functional interests nor enhanced their perpetuation. The union has been weakened as a fortress of common defense and resistance against Communist subversion and terrorists’ offenses. Indonesia claimed a victory with the secession and might still increase her guerrilla activity in the Borneo states, although the latter policy may change with the outcome of the current power struggle. The Borneo states, on the other hand, may feel that dissolution of the Federation is all the aggressive Indonesians want and that withdrawal from the union would end all aggression. [Download]