The Singapore government in turn responded by noting that from 1October 2014,it would stop issuing such notes.
The second development was the outbreak of violence between the Indonesian police's mobile brigade (brimob) and marines from the TNI's tuah sakti 134 battalion based in batam which is proximate to Singapore and where many Singapore companies have investment.
The violence arose after four marines were shot by brimob personnel who were investigating oil smuggling.
The incident led in turn to a tit-for-tat marine attack on the brimob headquarters although they had explicit orders to return to their barracks and turn in their weapons.