SINGAPORE — Indonesian defense officials have pulled out of this week’s Singapore Airshow, Jakarta said Sunday, as a row over the controversial naming of an Indonesian warship shows no sign of abating.
The Southeast Asian neighbors are locked in a bitter dispute over the Indonesian navy’s decision to name a refurbished frigate after two marines who staged a deadly bombing in Singapore in the 1960s.
“The visit by senior TNI (Indonesian National Armed Forces) officers, military chiefs of staff and TNI commander to Singapore has been canceled,” Indonesia’s defense ministry said in a statement issued late Sunday.
The statement also said that a visit by Deputy Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin to Singapore for a “strategic dialogue” had been scrapped too.
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