Konfrontasi

Is it, is it, uh, Oman, right? If you look at the conflict in the Middle East, you realize how important what we have achieved in ASEAN is.

Because if we did not come up with ASEAN, we would-- why would we be any better but than, than the Middle East? Just look at the Konfrontasi era, Three Indochina Wars era.

Just look at the Sabah-Philippine conflict.

So I think the problem with Southeast Asia is we take it for granted.

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And finally, closer to home, September 30th, 1965 sees a major political shift in Jakarta, marking the turning point that effectively brought an end to Indonesia's Konfrontasi campaign and easing years of cross-border military tensions for Singapore.

And that's your September 30th edition of Today But Not Today.

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So, if we look at the time, right, when Singapore faced this problem, right, that the British were going to withdraw in a very quick manner, this seemed to be like a shock for the system, right, for Singapore.

Some of the civil servants have called this period of the late 1960s the triple whammy, right? There was Konfrontasi, this started a bit earlier in 1963.

This is a little bit of a cold, semi-hot war and confrontation with Sukarno's Indonesia.

Because the Indonesians opposed the formation of Malaysia, they saw it as a neocolonial plot.