Minister Masagos: Singapore’s firefighting team in Indonesia is a waste of time

asymmetric

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Calling the efforts of Singapore’s firefighting team in Indonesia “almost a futile exercise”, Singapore Minister for Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli said that by the time the Singapore team landed in Indoensia, the disaster have deterioriated to the point where not even a rain would help.

Singapore’s firefighters put ou 50 hotspots in their two week stint in Indonesia but according to Minister Masagos, the area covered was “miniscule”. Minister Masagos then proposed that international assistance be standardized at an early stage so the situation could be nipped in the bud at the early stage:

“But because they were called in so late and the peat fire has spread out so much, this is minuscule, the area they were given is really minuscule to the amount that everybody has to put out. And nothing short of act of God like rain can really stop this fire altogether. And therefore, one of the things we have resolved, (is) there should be an appropriate alert level with which any party which is affected by forest fire should get help, and that, together in the region, we can gather assets to put out the fire early so that it becomes an effective way of working together. This was not something we achieved in this current haze episode, almost a futile exercise but a discovery, nonetheless, that when help comes too late, it does not help at all.”

Minister Masagos also responded to the Indonesian Minister Luhut’s comments which said that Singapore’s offer of one aircraft was insulting:

“It’s not about how many assets you put there. It’s how effective you can be and how early you can get activated, as well as how many other countries can contribute to make this a regionally sound way of addressing issues like this.”

http://statestimesreview.com/2015/10/31/minister-masagos-singapores-firefighting-team-in-indonesia-is-almost-a-waste-of-time/
 

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If Indonesia didn't reject help in the first place, perhaps more could be done. What has he done personally other than to talk?
 

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They flip prata really powerful. They don't want us to help then now say we render assistance too late :s11::s11::s11:
 

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trying to fix the haze issue by sending a few sg fire fighters is just working on the symptom not the cure not to mention its rather ineffective and inefficient

we should reach out to australians, russians, americans who really have expertise in fighting large scale fire to send more help

and we should also bring this to hague slap indonesia with a billion dollar fine, see if they will not make miracle to end this fire sheet permanently
 

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If Indonesia didn't reject help in the first place, perhaps more could be done. What has he done personally other than to talk?

Their higher ups are all mostly spoiled fugup individuals who can't even wipe their own arse after squatting.
 

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Knn in the beginning they rejected help now flip prata
 

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They want to burn until song song gao jurong then come ask for help.

They will ask for help at the most appropriate timing. Only after enough land cleared for the new planting season, they will ask for help (FOC) to put out the fire so they can start planting new crops.

Since the neighbours are "great concern" about the haze and fires, a call for help sure can get FOC firefighting services in the shortest possible time.

Rinse and repeat every year, song song gao Jelutong.
 
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