NS policies for male PR

Tragic Clown SG

What are the NS obligations that a male PR have to fulfil?

greengoblin SG

Same as a male citizen

Obersturmfuhrer SG

I believe the first generation PR has no obligations but his/her children do.

Tragic Clown SG

what if the male PR is already 30 years old? still have to go through two years NS?

MeoW_MeoW SG

yes.. only 2nd generation PR must do NS... Wink

Gordonator SG

no. but his son must.

Moxie SG

yes.. only 2nd generation PR must do NS...

Apparently that's the official policy. I dunno if there was a change of policy towards this, cuz I distinctly recall serving with 2 Indonesian Chinese/local PR's back in the mid '80s. Even served as a character witness for one of them later on in NUS.

Back then, the way I understood it was: if they didn't call the male PR up to register for enlistment when he was age 16+, then - heng, ah - he's likely to have successfully "siam" NS.

Ronald Susilo, an ex-PR who went through the local education system, got his citizenship papers at age 23 &, up till now, hasn't been conscripted at all....

houndy SG

hmmm… i am serving with some blue IC people though…i think if you get your blue IC after 21 you dont have to serve?

nismoS132 SG

in tekong 2 of my bunkmates are malaysians, 23 and 24. my platoon is probably the foreign talent platoon. we had philipinos, taiwanese, chinese, 2 angmos and quite a few malaysians.