“We are both worried about ISIS and we both have nationals from our countries involved in these terrorist activities including in the Middle East,“ Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said after talks with visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
Shortly after their meeting, Singapore disclosed that a 51-year-old local Muslim, Mustafa Sultan Ali, was deported by Turkey to the city-state in June after attempting to join IS, also known as ISIS, by crossing into Syria. Widodo said the two leaders “agreed that we will share information and other things that are linked to terrorism and ISIS, because we know that this is a threat to almost all countries.”
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