SINGAPORE

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By Vania Noviandra & Andhra Bhaskara
Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CS-GO):
Waging War against International Terrorism

“No man need feel that to belong to a particular religion. Put him at a disadvantage or gives him
an advantage” -Yushof Ishak

Terrorism cannot be underestimated and has caused a lot of concern to a nation. Terrorism
can come from a variety of groups or individuals, both operating domestically and
internationally. Terrorism itself is the use of violence, intimidation, and threats that create an
atmosphere of fear and can damage social life, economic, as well as political life to achieve a
certain goal. Radicalisation and extremism are threats that have the potential to pose a threat of
terrorism in a nation. These terrorist acts have caused great harm in terms of loss of life, material
loss, and social damage. From radicalisation and extremism, those who have the same thoughts
create terrorist organisations that continue to grow. So we consider this a problem that requires
serious follow-up.

Singapore is one of the Southeast Asian countries that has not experienced many threats of
terrorism. Our country is clean, safe and peaceful. However, this does not mean that terrorism
has never occurred in our country. This form of terrorism has been detrimental to our country
and has made us protective of terrorism. This makes us aware of the dangers of terrorism and
strongly condemns all forms of terrorism. Also views that terrorism can attack anyone, anytime,
anywhere. And now we consider terrorism to be transnational, where there are many dangerous
terrorist networks. Singapore believes that practical cooperation between countries, particularly
between frontline law enforcement and security agencies, is the most effective way to achieve
real progress in countering terrorism.

As a country with few terrorists, the Republic of Singapore has three strategies to prevent
terrorism from entering Singapore. The strategy includes "prevent, protect and respond" where
government agencies and the private sector work together to manage terrorism risks and respond
effectively. The "prevent" step as the first strategy requires the integration of effective diplomacy
in the form of diplomacy to the countries around our country to work together against the threat
of terrorism, good intelligence which is indicated by good coordination, and also effective
control over national borders both on land, sea and country. The second step is “protect”, which
is an increase in the ability to prevent terrorism in our country by protecting places that are easily
attacked by terrorists. This protection measure is carried out in places such as terminals, stations,
airports, harbours, meeting places and vital infrastructure in our country. Third, our country also
has responsive measures to the threat of terrorism with the main objective of returning Singapore
to normal as before the terrorist incident. This response step is divided into two forms, namely
response to conventional and unconventional attacks. Conventional here is in the form of
bombing while unconventional is a terrorist attack that uses biological and chemical weapons
such as by spreading viruses. (NSCC, 2004).
 Considering the dire situation and our capabilities, Singapore proposes several measures to
addressing the threat of terrorism and raise public awareness of the recruitment tactics of terrorist
organisations:

1. System total defence

Our country realises that society also has an important war so we are also trying to
inculcate this defence system to society. We realise that as a small country, we cannot rely
solely on military force, and we are trying to equip our communities to be aware of the
security of their environment and to be able to respond to any security threats that arise
around them. One form of this is the trainings conducted by the Singapore Police to
citizens and private security organisations to have early detection capabilities for acts of
terrorism such as in the form of Project Guardian. In addition, there are also various awards
and cooperation between the police and companies that are categorised as the focus of state
security protection such as the chemical industry, hospitality and also the financial
industry. The co-operation is in the form of sharing information related to security issues
and how to deal with the threats posed. Even workers such as taxi drivers are not spared
from this model of cooperation between the police and the community.

2. Establishing an institution with a law enforcement system

The process of combating terrorism in Singapore is Law Enforcement in nature with the
establishment of :
 National Security Coordination Secretariat (NSCS)
to strengthen inter-agency cooperation and integration in efforts to deal with the threat of
terrorism. As mentioned earlier, the NSCS consists of two more agencies.
1. National Security Coordination Centre (NSCC).
The NSCC itself aims to improve coordination and collaboration between government
agencies. The main task of the NSCC is to implement policies, plan strategies, manage
resources and also programme an accountability system for an issue. Since the NSCC
works as a forum for coordination, they also cooperate with other institutions to
improve their security in all aspects such as maritime, air, public transport,
infrastructure, internet, border control and also CBRE (chemical, biological,
radiological and explosive).
2. Joint Counter Terrorism Contre (JCTC).
This institution aims to provide an analysed strategy to deal with the issue of
terrorism. To maximise this, JCTC examines each security strategy building by
examining each threat and the impact if there is a terrorism attack in Singapore. In
addition, JCTC also builds an early warning system for terrorism threats.
 BIBLIOGRAPHY

National Security Coordination Centre. (2004). The Fight Against Terror: Singapore’s
National Security Strategy.

Singapore Police Force. (2011). Industry Safety and Security Watch Group (SSWG) Scheme.
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Singapore Police Force. (2011). Project Guardian. dalam

http://www.spf.gov.sg/cterror/pg_index.htm