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Originally Posted by Batam Man
who's going to pay the S$/Rp billions for the 20km bridge?
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Govt of batam can suggest share cost with singpore side. But I doubt spore will be agreeable to the proposal as the building of the bridge does not benefit spore economy much. Only if the pros outweigh the cons then singpore may consider....
Remember last few years back bolehland govt suggest building a suspended bridge at the causeway on both side so that msian ship can pass through directly save the trouble to go one big round to Tanjung Pelepas Port at south west johor. But spore opinion is that it is not neccesary as the present causeway is good enough already. And then when paklah took over office, he called off the plan of building the suspended bridge.
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Originally Posted by newyorker88
If the govenment of INdonesia agrees to "rent" Batam to singapore for 99 years, I am sure singapore gov will consider. In the 80s and 90s, such talk was on the table, before singapore gov goes to China suchow, where they "su lui".Back then, Batam is really a kampong with nothing much.
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Leasing Batam to spore could be like leasing hong kong to the british or leasing macau to the portugese. However batam has not much natural resources like crude oil, etc that spore can make good use of and building casinos in Batam also makes no sense as there are already casinos at sentosa and marina bay.
Unless want to promote Batam as a sex destination place, grant brothel licence, legalise prostitution, develop beach resorts like Bali to attract westerners to come and generate lots of income from tourism so that there will be surplus after paying the rent to batam.
