Nipah Island
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Nipah Island, one of 83 border islands serving as points of reference for Indonesia's sea borders, is at the centre of Singapore's current dispute with Jakarta.
Nipah lies dead in front of the main reclamation work and is now almost submerged.
Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Rokhmin Dahuri points out that if the island sinks completely the international boundary between Indonesia and Singapore will change - to Singapore's advantage.
Though the two countries have an existing agreement on marine territory, they have not yet settled their continental coastlines and economic exclusive zones (EEZs).
The Convention on the Law of the Sea states that marine territory is measured based on the coastal base line.
Jakarta is concerned that in the future, some Riau land could thus be claimed as Singapore's on the basis that if Singapore gets wider, its territorial line will also get wider
from http://www.littlespeck.com/region/CForeign-SEA-030802.htm -
In February 2004 Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri travelled on a warship to the small island of Nipah on the maritime border with Singapore to reinforce her country's claim to it.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, has more than 18,000 islands but has started paying attention to those along its borders after losing two of them to Malaysia in a World Court decision.
from http://www.singapore-window.org/sw04/040515af.htm -
they have 18000 island give a submerged one to us also so stingy huh
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hannor hannor... spare a few lah...maybe sg can buy some from them
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If the Indons are not happy with the land reclamation issue, they should just go to the International Court and thrash it out with us.