Hi there,

About the safety when travelling to Mobul/Sipadan:
I thinks its ok now to travel there, the kidnapping story is thing in the past already, now the security had been improved.

In general, in current political situation, there is nothing to worry about, we malaysian still living our life here with ease. Malaysian is basically very civilized, we didn't mix politic with our daily lifes unlike in some other ASEAN countries. By the way, I'm living in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia where sometimes the political party hold mammoth gathering and obstructing the traffics. But thats all, you can divert into other ways, no harm. Beside that the kuala lumpur malaysia hotels still operating, none is closed. So have no worry.