Do you agree with Singapore’s move on HAZE problem?
Singapore raises the haze issue at the United Nations General Assembly last month. However, Indonesia does not happy about Singapore’s move.
When Indonesia burns their forest, Malaysians have to “breath” the hazzy air. This problem already appears for more than a decade. However, does Indonesia really take it seriously to solve the problem? How about our government react to this problem?
Let us have some review here
Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid said that Malaysia and Indonesia are friendly neighbour. Malaysia will not bring the haze matter to the International Tribunal. He said Malaysia and Indonesia will continue to hold TALKS and discussions aimed at smoke and haze.
He also said that what can we get when bring Indonesia to the International Tribunal and he mentioned that protest was useless also.
Well, as our Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told us “When something like this happens, we have to ask for God’s help,”.
Cabinet Malaysia, what say you?
“If you can guarantee the wind will not blow (in this direction), then I can guarantee it (haze) will not happen again.”
“When we export oxygen, you don’t say anything; when we export haze, you complain.”
“We have forests producing oxygen and bringing clean air to them but they don’t thank us. Now there’s smoke and they complain. There must be a balance.”
Do you agree with Singapore’s move in order to solve the problem effectively?
TechTags Plugin [ United Nations General Assembly | Singapore | Indonesia | Malaysia | Haze | ASEAN ]
November 9th, 2006 at 5:34 am
what singapore did was something all normal ppl will do. eg, if your neighbour has 20 dogs and they annoy the neighbourhood, firstly you tell the neighbour, if they ignore you, you tell the persatuan, if they just goyang kaki because the persatuan has a profit sharing in the breeding of the dogs, then you seek higher authorities, like the dbkl or spca.
the fact that indonesia is upset over some serious help in fighting the peat fire, which they claim they cannot manage, something must be terribly wrong or they are hiding something. just wait for malaysia govt reaction on this.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:46 am
I agree with ducky. Why would you need to be delicate if the offense is continuously repeated?
November 9th, 2006 at 11:36 am
100% yes…Same rationale like Ducky…
The way Indonesia handle their foreign matters with their neigbours is down out passive…
Maybe should ask those religion fighters to fight the forest fire instead and not just demostrate so much at foreign embassy…
Tehsee
November 9th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Singapore has stood up for the cowards … is this clear enough? Well, the thing that depresses me is that, the level of double standard is so obvious that people find it hard to digest. What if it was Singapore and not Indonesia?