SINGAPORE: Due to the “heightened security situation in the region,” authorities plan to increase checkpoints, causing delays at all checkpoints from September 9 to September 14.
When the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) announced on Sunday, September 8, on Facebook, they did not clarify to what this was about.
Travellers should allow additional time for immigration clearance as they will be subject to “enhanced security checks” upon arrival at land, air, and sea checkpoints, according to ICA.
The final stop on his Asia Pacific tour, Pope Francis is expected to visit Singapore from September 11 to September 13. Police detained seven individuals during the 87-year-old Catholic leader’s earlier this week visit to Indonesia for allegedly making “terror threats” against him online.
The suspects were apprehended in West Sumatra and Bangka Belitung provinces and in cities surrounding Jakarta, the nation’s capital. Currently, Pope Francis has completed half of his 12-day tour, which is the longest and furthest of his tenure to date.
On Sunday, he presided over an outdoor mass in Papua New Guinea that drew an estimated 35,000 attendees. Timor Leste, which has a Catholic majority, is his next destination before he travels to Singapore for two days later that week.
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