The Letter that Made Pulau Batu Putih owned by Singapore...

Pulau Batu Puteh on 1851

"Pedra Branca is an outcrop of rocks situated where the Singapore Strait meets the South China Sea. The Horsburgh Lighthouse on this outlying island was built by the British in 1851.

Singapore refers to the island as "Pedra Branca" (meaning "white rock" in Portuguese), and Malaysia as "Pulau Batu Puteh" (meaning "white rock island" in Malay). It is named so for the whitish bird droppings that were seen on the rock in the past".

Pulau Batu Puteh

After 28 years of debutting for the sovereignty of the Pulau Batu Putih or known as Pedra Branca. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) had decided that the island is owned by Singapore...

It's kind of a said news for us, we might blaming Malaysian team and our government for this lost..but there is something that we didn't know...

The reason for the lose is because of the careless and insignificant of the Johor government on 1953...On 1953, The Secretary of Johor state had made a black and white confession to Singapore by declaring that Pedra Branca is not in the sovereignty of Johor...This letter is the main key for Malaysia losing the Pulau Batu Putih.

The letter from State Secretary of Johore informing to Singapore
about Pedra Branca status on 1953.

Malaysia must have predicted the result from the ICJ for the loses by knowing about this letter...

In 20 November 2007, The Singapore newspaper, The Straits Times had reported by Lydia Lim, Senior Political Correspondent that Malaysia had photographic illusion that Malaysia had created to exaggerate the closeness of Pedra Branca to Johor, Singapore said at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.

The first photograph, which Malaysia had shown the court last week, was taken by a camera using a telephoto lens.

The second photograph was taken by Singapore, using a camera lens that approximates what the human eye sees. As a result, the Malaysian photograph exaggerated the height of Mount Berbukit by about seven times, Singapore’s Attorney-General Chao Hick Tin said when he presented the two photos before the court.

He described it as ‘an attempt to convey a subliminal message of proximity between Pedra Branca and the coast of Johor’.But it was not an accurate reflection of what visitors to Pedra Branca would see if they were looking towardsthe Johor mainland, he said.

So, what can we say after all...The morale from this case is...

NEVER MAKE A DECISION WITHOUT CONSIDERING OTHERS OPINION....

NEVER DECIDE SOMETHING WITHOUT THINKING THE CONSEQUENCES...