Indonesia asserts that the fact that the Commissioners'work started at the coast of Sebatik does not mean that the 1891 convention line began there, any more than the fact that their work ended after covering some 20 per cent of the boundary can be interpreted to mean that the boundary did not continue any further. It states that,contrary to what Malaysia suggests, the Commissioners' report did not say that the boundary started on the east coast of Sebatik but indicated only that traversing the island of Sebatik, the frontier line follows the parallel of 4 10' north latitude