Comparing Singapore And Malaysi The Relationship Between Malaysia And Singapore

MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE RELATIONS

Malaysia and Singapore go way back as they first started out as a country and eventually separating out to two different countries as Singapore was unhappy with the way Malaysia had decided to rule its country and it stated that Malaysia was a pro Malay country. With that Malaysia became an independent state.

However the separation of Malaysia and Singapore did not completely severe all its ties as they were neighboring countries and relied on each other on certain things. Being neighboring countries, many aspects of relationships between states can go awry as they cannot always rely on mutual trust in this case, Singapore and Malaysia become main examples of the relations between the two countries (Rusdi,

This island was independent even during the British Colonial ruling, therefore lead to the building construction of the Horsburgh Lighthouse in the 18th century. Even after years had passed no one took ownership of the Island. When the lighthouse was built, Singapore began continuing the building processes upon the island in acts as though the Island had become their very own.

Malaysia had not spoken a word based on this issue of building the Pedra Branca. Throughout the process of Singapore adding structures on the Pedra Branca, Malaysia had never questioned the case of ownership. Malaysia also look the liberty to publish a number of maps from the period of 1962-1975. In this maps which stated that the Pedra Branca was wholly owned by Singapore and has zero connections with Malaysia besides having a closer distance from Johor to the Island itself (Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singapore, n.d.).

This issue was then brought to court ICJ however it did not show clear evidence of the solving of the case and thus related to this case being dragged for almost 20

Malaysia and Thailand which shared mainland and sea borders. Malaysia had their Embassy in Bangkok and Thailand has their Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Thailand is larger than Malaysia and located at North of Malaysia. Both countries had similarity which Malay language used at Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat (South of Thailand) and they are also Muslim. Other than that the social culture activity of Malaysia in music instrument, singing, Siam skin puppet and dancing at the border much influence by Siamese culture. And also Siamese food, much of restaurant chef in Malaysia are from Thailand (Emy,