Never use "Indon" to refer to Indonesians

Good advice about the subject
Nation THE STAR, Monday, September 10, 2007
Monday September 10, 2007
Envoy: Stop stereotyping Indonesian workers
MALAYSIANS need to change their perception of Indonesian workers as being good for only menial jobs before relations between the two countries suffer more serious damage.
Malaysian Ambassador to Indonesia Datuk Zainal Abidin Mohd Zin said the stereotyping of Indonesian workers and the abuse by some employers must stop immediately.
He also called on the Indonesian media to tone down their general perception of Malaysians being arrogant.
“With more than two million Indonesians working in Malaysia, legally or otherwise, there is bound to be problems and cases of abuse.
“But the thing is, if they happened, why are not these cases resolved. From the point of view of the Indonesians, we are practising double standards.
“They feel that when it comes to Indonesians committing a crime in Malaysia, justice has been swift but when it comes to Malaysians abusing their Indonesian worker, no action is taken,” Zainal Abidin told Malaysian media covering Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s three-day working visit to South Sulawesi yesterday.
The ambassador said there was also the concern of Malaysian employers withholding the passports of Indonesian workers, which, in the eyes of Indonesian activists, were against human rights.
Then, he said, there were cases of mistreatment and abuse of these workers which had been blown out of proportion by the Indonesian media.
Zainal Abidin urged Malaysians to erase from their vocabulary the term “Indon” used to refer to the Indonesians.
The Indonesians, he said, felt trongly about the word as to them it was a degrading term.
“The Information Department and Wisma Putra have already instructed the media to stop using the word to refer to Indonesians, but it is still largely used by the general public.”
The above is the news item from The Star worthy of taking note carefully especially its last paragraph.
However, following is the headline of a news item of September 23 in the newspaper not heeding the above advice:- "Fleeing Indon woman falls to her death" though in the news itself the word is not used.