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eb. 18, Online

Singapore'€™s Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen has announced that the country will forbid the Indonesian Navy'€™s corvette KRI Usman-Harun to enter its territory under any circumstances.

'€œIt would be impossible for us to imagine that we could sail together or conduct joint military operations with the vessel,'€ Hen said on Tuesday as quoted by Kompas.com.

Your comments:

Indonesia is free to name her ships. But if that ship ever enters Singapore, the defense minister has given his warning. Expect it to be sunk and the same justice applied to the namesake ship and those who sail in it. Be careful to watch the territorial line, Usman-Harun, your bed with the fish is waiting.

To me, it serves as a warning to us and reminds us where we stand. Our neighbors will never be satisfied with us and we are always their number one target for their misfortune. They can vent their anger with us by threatening to turn off the tap, send navy ships to threaten us, stop building materials, stop sand supplies and so on.

We are just one of their pawns to win votes and score political points. We mustn'€™t fall into their trap.

These are people who usually have no ideas to win votes, are corrupt or whose popularity is already in decline. Let'€™s ignore these people. If they are good or bad people, their God will know. The educated people will know.

Rodney Goh

Can we ban Singaporean ships entering Indonesian waters too? Just close Batam waters, Malacca Strait and Natuna waters. That tiny red dot is really noisy.

Mans Junior

From recent news reports, it seems Indonesia has been asking Singapore to renegotiate the extradition treaty to de-link it from defense matters to match extradition treaties already in place with the US, Australia, the UK, China, Japan, etc.

It seems to avoid having to renegotiate the treaty and hence threaten the reputation of Singapore as a center for Indonesian money laundering, the Singapore regime has decided to blow up this non-issue of a ship'€™s name and have its propaganda mouthpiece disseminate anti-Indonesian diatribes to its clueless and gullible population.

Behind all this noise are the Singapore regime'€™s efforts to protect Indonesian convicts and suspects for the purpose of continuing to attract dirty money from Indonesia. As Andy Xie (Morgan Stanley) said, Singapore is highly dependent on its survival as a money-laundering center by Indonesians. It is all about the selfish and greedy need to protect the inflow of Indonesian dirty money for the Singapore regime.

When fugitives decided to leave Singapore, they were arrested by other countries and extradited to Indonesia. Examples are Anggoro Widjojo (who was caught after traveling to China from Singapore and extradited to Indonesia) and Adrian Kiki Ariawan (who was caught after traveling to Australia from Singapore and extradited to Indonesia).

These are the type of fugitives being protected by Singapore. For the sake of these people and their money, Singapore stoops so low as to insult Indonesian national heroes just to avoid having to sign an extradition treaty with Indonesia to protect its lucrative money-laundering business.

Purnomor

Those on the '€œwanted'€ list would be truly foolish to remain in Singapore. They have taken flight and no one knows where they are. It was the failure of the Indonesian government to prevent their getaway. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has realized this mistake and is doing a fine job preventing alleged criminals from getting away. Kudos to their efforts.

You want a '€œphantom'€ company? Go to Hong Kong and you can buy a legally registered company for a dime within a couple of days.

Today, if you have successfully '€œstolen'€ a billion dollars and are free to travel, would you place the stolen cash in Singapore? Think like a criminal with no personal feelings. Any financial institution will accept your deposit without asking any questions. Whatever you do thereafter is another matter. Your passport will be the only evidence of your travel to Singapore. No one knows what instructions you have left with the institution that you transacted with.

So, it is inadvertently termed as '€œmoney laundering'€. Singapore is '€œaware'€ of these criminals, who are allegedly in Singapore. But what do you really want them to do? Extradite them, on what grounds? They have not committed any crimes in Singapore. It'€™s hard to swallow and it'€™s rather unfortunate. Maybe I would feel the same as you (and some others) do if the situation was reversed.

Valkyrie

An extradition treaty plus Defense Cooperation Agreement was signed in 2007 by the governments of Indonesia (or, President SBY) and Singapore. It would be better for the House of Representatives (DPR) to ratify this extradition treaty than not to have any treaty until renegotiation.

When will the DPR ratify the 2007 extradition treaty plus Defense Cooperation Agreement? Remember
that President SBY has put his signature on the Defense Cooperation Agreement.

Octopus