KRI Usman Harun will be barred from Singapore

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Singapore will bar Indonesian naval ship the KRI Usman Harun from docking here, and will not take part in any exercises with the controversially named frigate.

Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen told Parliament yesterday that the ship, named after Usman Mohamed Ali and Harun Said, the two Indonesian marines who bombed MacDonald House here in 1965, will not be allowed to call at Singapore's ports and naval bases.

"It would not be possible for the SAF (Singapore Armed Forces), as protectors of this nation, to sail alongside or exercise with this ship," he added.

Responding to Chua Chu Kang GRC Member of Parliament Zaqy Mohamad, who enquired on the response of the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) and the SAF to Jakarta's naming of the ship, Dr Ng said that Mindef and the SAF "were disappointed and dismayed over this inexplicable move", which "will have consequences on bilateral relations".