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  • 2 Self-Radicalised Singaporean Youths Arrested, Detained Under ISA

    2 Self-Radicalised Singaporean Youths Arrested, Detained Under ISA

    A Singaporean youth has been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for terrorism-related activities since April this year, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced on Wednesday (May 27).

    Additionally, another youth was arrested in May under the ISA for further investigations into the extent of his radicalisation.

    The youth detained since April, M Arifil Azim Putra Norja’i, a 19-year-old post-secondary student, is the first known self-radicalised Singaporean to harbour the intention to carry out violent attacks in Singapore, said MHA.

    Investigations showed that he had made plans to join the terrorist group, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and that his radicalisation began around 2013 when he started viewing terrorist propaganda online, said MHA.

    The ministry said Arifil then grew to support the radical ideology and violent tactics of ISIS, and befriended individuals online whom he thought could help him join the terrorist group. Arifil also actively surfed the Internet for information on travel routes to Syria so that he could engage in armed violence there, and had done research on making improvised explosive devices.

    Arifil also revealed that if he was unable to join ISIS in Syria, he intended to carry out violent attacks in Singapore, said MHA. He had put “considerable thought” into how he would attack key facilities and assassinate Government leaders. If he was unable to carry out these plans, Arifil planned to carry out attacks in public places “in order to strike fear within our society”, using “easily available” weapons such as knives, added the ministry.

    His intentions to carry out violent attacks were subsequently corroborated by several persons who said he had tried to recruit them to help carry out these plans, according to the MHA. Investigations showed that while these people did not fall prey to Arifil’s attempts to recruit them, they also did not alert the authorities about him, it added.

    “Fortunately, another person who knew Arifil noticed the changes in him, and had brought him to the attention of the authorities, who were then able to investigate the matter and take action before he could carry out his violent attack plans in Singapore,” said MHA.

    The ministry added that another radicalised Singaporean post-secondary youth, 17, was arrested in May under the ISA for further investigations into the extent of his radicalisation. His family was informed of his arrest, and will be kept informed of the outcome of the investigations.

    Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean said Singapore faces real threats from radicalisation, similar to other countries.

    “Our community leaders have worked hard to counter radical ideology. And we should all, from all communities in Singapore, support one another. … All of us must play our part. If you know or suspect anyone who is becoming radicalised, please notify the authorities early,” Mr Teo said.

    “You may be helping to save that person from harming himself and others. And our security agencies will do their utmost to detect and prevent any terrorist attacks.”

    FAMILY, FRIENDS PLAY ROLE IN PREVENTING RADICALISATION

    The ministry said the two young Singaporeans who have been radicalised demonstrate that youth in Singapore can become radicalised too, in particular through the internet.

    The ministry said that family members, friends, colleagues and members of the public have an important role to play in protecting fellow Singaporeans from radicalisation and engaging in terrorist activities.

    “This should be done early, so that Singaporeans at risk of becoming radicalised can be provided proper guidance, supervision and religious instruction, and be saved. Religious institutions and teachers also have an important role to play in engaging young Singaporeans when they have questions on religious matters, and steering them in the right direction,” said the MHA.

    It added that anyone who knows or suspects that a person is radicalised should promptly call the ISD Counter-Terrorism Centre hotline 1800-2626-473 (1800-2626-ISD).

    “This could save such individuals and allow them to be helped and counselled, so that they are prevented from engaging in violent activities that may cause harm to themselves and others,” said the MHA.

    THREE JI MEMBERS RELEASED

    The MHA also announced in a separate release that three Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) members were released in February and May this year after they were “assessed to no longer pose a security threat that required preventive detention”.

    The JI members are Sahrudin Mohd Sapian, Mohamed Rafee Abdul Rahman and Mohamed Rashid Zainal Abidin, it said.

    Sahrudin and Rafee were JI members detained under the ISA in February 2012. They had undergone terrorist training in Afghanistan in 2000, and both men were released from detention and placed on Restriction Orders (RO) on Feb 24, 2014, said MHA.

    The ministry added that Rashid, who was detained under the ISA in May 2006, was a JI member who had undergone terrorist training in south Philippines. He was released from detention and placed on RO on May 26, 2014.

    Additionally, the ROs against four JI members and one self-radicalised individual were allowed to lapse between June 2014 and April 2015. The JI members were Ab Wahab Ahmad, Syed Ibrahim, Ibrahim Mohd Noor and Jahpar Osman, while the self-radicalised individual was Muhammad Thahir Shaik Dawood.

    “All five men had been cooperative and responsive to rehabilitation efforts,” said MHA.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Indonesian PhD Student Convicted For Outrage Of Modesty

    Indonesian PhD Student Convicted For Outrage Of Modesty

    An Indonesian PhD student was convicted on Tuesday of outraging a woman’s modesty on an MRT train.

    Irfan Syanjaya, 26, had been taking the train from Buona Vista to Jurong East on Aug 12 last year, when he deliberately stood close behind the 20-year-old student to do so.

    He was sentenced to six weeks’ jail following a two-day trial.

    The court heard that although the train was crowded at first as it was the evening peak period, it grew more empty after leaving Dover station. Nevertheless, Irfan continued to stand close to the victim even though there was space to move away.

    She confronted Irfan, who apologised. Other commuters came forward to help and he was detained by security officers at Jurong East MRT.

    During the trial, Irfan, who was unrepresented, maintained that he had touched the victim accidentally.

    He had admitted during police investigations earlier to intentionally touching her, but denied this in court.

    When asked why he kept standing so close to her, he said through a translator: “She seemed to have no negative thoughts about me so I did not move away.

    “I assumed she had no problem about me standing where I was.”

    Three witnesses who had been in the same carriage testified that they had seen Irfan make deliberate contact with the victim, even after she tried to avoid him.

    One, Ms Nur Sharida Md Farok, said Irfan was standing close enough to whisper into her ear.

    Another, Mr Johan Tay, said it was obvious that he had been inching towards the victim. He said he had tried to stop it from happening by putting his bag in between Irfan and the victim, but that Irfan had persisted.

    At the time, Irfan was doing a PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the National University of Singapore.

    For using criminal force to outrage the victim’s modesty, Irfan could have been jailed for up to two years, fined, caned, or any combination of the three.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • A Singapore Airlines Airbus Jet Loses Power On All Engines In Mid Flight

    A Singapore Airlines Airbus Jet Loses Power On All Engines In Mid Flight

    Over the weekend, Singapore Airlines flight 836, flying from Singapore to Shanghai, lost power mid-flight on both of its Rolls-Royce engines.

    According to Flightradar 24, the Airbus A330-343 experienced the problem while cruising at 39,000 ft.

    The incident, which took place just south of Hong Kong, caused the airliner to drop 13,000 feet before the crew was able to restart the engines.

    The Airbus jet — registration number 9V-SSF — landed safely in Shanghai an hour and a half later.

    182 passengers and 12 crew members were on board the airliner at the time of the incident. No Injuries were reported.

    According to The Aviation Herald, Singapore Airlines confirmed that the A330 “experienced a temporary loss of power” after encountering some bad weather.

    Once on the ground in Shanghai, the two-month-old airliner underwent a batch of tests, but a cause for the power loss couldn’t be determined, the Aviation Herald reported.

    Singapore’s Air Accident Investigations Bureau is looking into the incident.

    When a jet like the A330 loses an engine, it’s still certified to fly for as long as four hours on the remaining engine. Obviously, when a jet loses both engines, the situation is much more serious. However, pilots are trained to handle it.

    The A330-300 is a twin-engined medium-sized wide-body airliner and one of Airbus’ top selling aircraft types. The plane that experienced the problem was fitted with two Rolls-Royce Trent 772B turbofan engines

    Singapore has 31 Airbus A330-300s in its fleet. They fly routes across Asia and Australia.

     

    Source: www.businessinsider.sg

  • Australian Mother Abandons Children To Join ISIS In Syria

    Australian Mother Abandons Children To Join ISIS In Syria

    Jasmina Milovanov left her two children with a babysitter earlier this month in Sydney, Australia, saying she was on her way to pick up a new car. She never came back.

    The 26-year-old single mother is now believed to be in Syria and to have joined the Islamic State militant group, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday.

    Milovanov’s ex-husband said that he received a text message from her on May 3 while he was in Turkey, telling him to return home to Australia and that she was in Syria, reported The Daily Telegraph. The mother is also believed to have written a now-deleted post on Facebook saying that she was in “Sham,” using an Arabic term for Syria.

    Milovanov’s mother told Australia’s Network 10 television station that her daughter hadn’t mentioned anything about going to Syria, saying, “I even saw her the week before and she was alright. Probably she is brainwashed. She is so young and naive.”

    Milovanov was also friends on Facebook with Zehra Duman, a woman known in Australia to be a recruiter who finds brides for IS extremists,Agence France Presse reported.

    Milovanov’s children are ages 5 and 7. She converted to Islam in her late teens,according to The Daily Telegraph.

    Australia’s counterterrorism minister, Michael Keenan, said Tuesday that authorities are currently monitoring the reports of Milovanov’s recruitment and flight.

    Foreign Minister Julie Bishop commented on Milovanov’s case in Parliament on Tuesday, saying she was “deeply pessimistic about the fate of this apparently troubled young woman.”

    The disappearance of Milovanov comes as Australia is planning to pass a law that would strip citizenship from people suspected of terrorist activities, even if they are not convicted of any crime. The proposed law would only apply to those who possess dual nationality, so as not to leave anyone completely stateless.

    Australia has between 100 to 250 citizens fighting for militant groups in Syria and Iraq, according to a January report from The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence.

     

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Singaporeans Value Family

    Singaporeans Value Family

    SINGAPORE: Singaporeans value families – they want to get married, have children and feel a strong sense of filial piety a survey found. However, statistics by the Social and Family Development Ministry (MSF) show a gap between what they desire and their reality.

    About nine in 10 respondents, across all age groups in a Survey on Social Attitudes of Singaporeans, said they have a close-knit family.

    The desire for married couples to be close with their parents is also strong. But sometimes the environment does not allow for it.

    In the survey conducted by MSF, about 40 per cent of families with young children said they either live in the same flat, in a nearby block, or same estate as their parents. But 55 per cent said they actually preferred to do so.

    Professor Yeung Wei-Jun Jean, director of the Centre for Family and Population Research, explained: “They desire to do so perhaps because of the proximity to take care of … the parents or maybe grandparents to take care of younger children.

    “But in reality, maybe some of the married couples or elderly parents already bought housing some time ago and it is not so easy to move to be closer to be in the same neighbourhood and housing. So maybe in terms of public policy, (it would be good) to look at how to make it easier for people who are living further apart but now because of the caring needs, they want to be living closer, and how to make it easier to move.”

    INTER-GENERATIONAL CONTACT

    And perhaps because of the distance, inter-generational contact seems to be affected. In 2003, some 76.4 per cent of married respondents had said they see their elderly parents either daily or at least once a week. In 2013, the proportion dropped to 70.6 per cent.

    In fact, 18.8 per cent of respondents said they either never or keep in touch with their elderly parents just a few times a year.

    Prof Yeung noted: “People have many demands and young couples are working long hours. We know from statistics that Singapore adults are working very long hours and children’s schooling is very demanding.”

    The inter-generational bonding further weakens as the age gap widens – 71.4 per cent of those aged between 65 and 74 said they do not discuss their personal lives with their grandchildren; the figure goes up to 80 per cent among those aged 75 and above.

    Dr Mathew Mathews, senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, said: “Values transmission is important, and we notice that less than 30 per cent of grandparents actually discuss their personal life with their grandchildren. That is really a loss because if more are able to do that, grandchildren would be more richer for being able to catch a lot more value, which may be important to their lives, going forward.”

    HIGHER EXPECTATIONS AND EVOLVING ROLES

    And while there is an increasing number of companies offering some form of flexi-work arrangement, 55 per cent of respondents still said their job keeps them from spending the amount of time they would like, with their family.

    Dr Mathews said it may be because expectations are higher and roles are evolving.

    He said: “What we have here now is that more men are expressing the fact that work and family life is in conflict. We notice that in the newer wave of the survey, and I think it speaks to the fact that increasingly, wives also want their men to step up and be involved in caregiving roles which previously more of them shied away from but today the expectation is higher on them.”

    Researchers also point to the growing number of single households saying that it is important to build on community networks and targeted support, especially for vulnerable groups, such as women who are divorced or widowed.

    DROP IN NUCLEAR FAMILIES

    Meanwhile, the number of nuclear families was down 7 per cent last year, from 56 per cent of resident households in 2000, according to data released at the Social Service Partners Conference 2015 on Tuesday (May 26).

    The fall in the proportion of nuclear families, which are two-generation couple-based households either living with parents or with children, came despite its increase from 511 in 2000 to 592 in 2014. The proportion of 3G – households comprising three or more generations – families also dropped from 10 per cent to 9 per cent.

    Conversely, one-person households saw an increase from 8 per cent in 2000 to 11 per cent in 2014. The proportion of married couples without co-residing children in households also rose from 11 per cent to 14 per cent over four years.

    DIVORCED, SEPARATED, WIDOWED LESS SATISFIED WITH FAMILY LIFE

    One key finding from the survey was that fewer divorced, separated or widowed respondents said they are satisfied with their family life, unlike the single or married cohorts.

    The survey showed a 9.3 per cent drop in the number of divorced, separated or widowed respondents agreeing that their family life is satisfying, compared to the 4.6 per cent for singles.

    Despite the 4.3 per cent increase in married respondents who are happy with their family life, those who are satisfied with their marriage dropped from 96 per cent in 2009 to 92 per cent in 2013. The survey also showed that 94 per cent of males were satisfied with their marriage, compared to 89 per cent of females.

    A stark difference was also observed between the number of wives who said they do more caregiving and household chores than the number of husbands who said they do. For example, 59 per cent of wives indicated themselves as spending more time doing household chores, compared to 3 per cent of husbands.

    Similarly, mothers were revealed to spend almost double the time alone with their children during the weekend compared to the fathers.

    MORE SINGLES DESIRE TO GET MARRIED

    In another survey, the number of single respondents who desire to get married increased from 74 per cent in 2004, to 85 per cent in 2012. As for parenthood aspirations, the Marriage and Parenthood Survey 2012 revealed that a 4 per cent increase in married respondents who intend to have two children was observed between 2007 and 2012.

    FAMILIES SPENDING LESS TIME TOGETHER

    Meanwhile, according to the National Youth Survey 2013 conducted by the National Youth Council, more than half of respondents across all age groups said they spend less than 10 hours with family members in a week.

    A total of 55 per cent of respondents between the ages of 15 and 19 said they spend less than 10 hours, while the age-groups 20-24, 25-29 and 30-34 registered 62 per cent, 72 per cent and 74 per cent respectively.

    Additionally, 63 per cent of youths surveyed by the National Youth Council in 2010 said they spend less than 10 hours with their parents or relatives in a week, out of which 4 per cent indicated no time is spent.
    In comparison, 2013’s results showed 67 per cent of youths spending less than 10 hours, and 6 per cent spending zero hours with their parents and relatives in a week.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

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