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M'SIAN HOME MINSITER HOPES MANOHARA ISSUE WILL NOT TARNISH MALAYSIA-INDONESIA TIES
PUTRAJAYA, June 5 (Bernama) -- Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun
Hussein said Friday he hoped that the Manohara issue, sensationalised by the foreign media, would not tarnish relations between Malaysia and Indonesia.
He said the issue was a personal matter involving one party who was not a
Malaysian citizen, and was something which should not be sensationalised.
"This is where I think the media (foreign media) should be more
responsible," he told reporters after the monthly assembly of the home ministry,
here.
The foreign media had sensationalised the issue after Manohara Odelio Pinot,
wife of Tengku Temenggong Tengku Mohamad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra, the third
prince of the Sultan of Kelantan, returned to Indonesia on May 31 from Singapore
where the couple had gone to visit the sultan who is recovering from a heart
ailment at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
Manohara, who had married the prince last August, reportedly told the
Indonesian media that she had fled from her husband who had allegedly abused
her.
The Kelantan palace issued a statement on Wednesday stating that the
Manohara issue was a personal matter which should be resolved according to the
law.
Hishammuddin said Manohara had not lodged any report with the police in
Malaysia on her claim, and that an investigation would have been initiated if
she had done so.
Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan, who was present, said: "The
report has been lodged in Singapore, so Singapore is investigating."
Asked about the whereabouts of Malaysia Today website editor Raja Petra Raja
Kamarudin, who has two warrants of arrest against him, Hishammuddin said he did
not have any information on him.
He said he could not confirm a report that Raja Petra was now in Brisbane,
Australia.
The Immigration Department said on May 27 that it believed Raja Petra had
used one of the so-called "rat trails" to leave the country as there was no
record of his having left the country at the normal exit points.
The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court had issued two warrants of arrest for Raja
Petra after he failed to turn up for his trial in a defamation case.
On the incident where two boats carrying 32 Indonesians capsized off Tanjung
Piai near Pontian in Johor yesterday, Hishammuddin admitted that illegal
immigrants could sneak into the country but said the government was considering
new measures to step up security patrols.
He said he would announce these measures when the issue of foreign workers
and illegal immigrants was discussed.
He also said that he had merged the committee on foreign workers and that on
illegal immigrants. As such, these two issues would be discussed at the level of
the Cabinet committee chaired by the deputy prime minister, he added.
-- BERNAMA
Hussein said Friday he hoped that the Manohara issue, sensationalised by the foreign media, would not tarnish relations between Malaysia and Indonesia.
He said the issue was a personal matter involving one party who was not a
Malaysian citizen, and was something which should not be sensationalised.
"This is where I think the media (foreign media) should be more
responsible," he told reporters after the monthly assembly of the home ministry,
here.
The foreign media had sensationalised the issue after Manohara Odelio Pinot,
wife of Tengku Temenggong Tengku Mohamad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra, the third
prince of the Sultan of Kelantan, returned to Indonesia on May 31 from Singapore
where the couple had gone to visit the sultan who is recovering from a heart
ailment at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
Manohara, who had married the prince last August, reportedly told the
Indonesian media that she had fled from her husband who had allegedly abused
her.
The Kelantan palace issued a statement on Wednesday stating that the
Manohara issue was a personal matter which should be resolved according to the
law.
Hishammuddin said Manohara had not lodged any report with the police in
Malaysia on her claim, and that an investigation would have been initiated if
she had done so.
Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan, who was present, said: "The
report has been lodged in Singapore, so Singapore is investigating."
Asked about the whereabouts of Malaysia Today website editor Raja Petra Raja
Kamarudin, who has two warrants of arrest against him, Hishammuddin said he did
not have any information on him.
He said he could not confirm a report that Raja Petra was now in Brisbane,
Australia.
The Immigration Department said on May 27 that it believed Raja Petra had
used one of the so-called "rat trails" to leave the country as there was no
record of his having left the country at the normal exit points.
The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court had issued two warrants of arrest for Raja
Petra after he failed to turn up for his trial in a defamation case.
On the incident where two boats carrying 32 Indonesians capsized off Tanjung
Piai near Pontian in Johor yesterday, Hishammuddin admitted that illegal
immigrants could sneak into the country but said the government was considering
new measures to step up security patrols.
He said he would announce these measures when the issue of foreign workers
and illegal immigrants was discussed.
He also said that he had merged the committee on foreign workers and that on
illegal immigrants. As such, these two issues would be discussed at the level of
the Cabinet committee chaired by the deputy prime minister, he added.
-- BERNAMA
