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Originally Posted by Black Page
As far as I know, in all civilized countries the law prescribes that a foreigner must have the passport with him at all times, to be ready to demonstrate he is a legitimate visitor in case of police check.
Try to come to Europe or USA, do something wrong or just be stopped by police for a random check in the street. Do not expect that a smile and "I am Singaporean" without your passport would be enough to leave. Most likely, you would be suspected to be an illegal immigrant, from China, India, somewhere in SEA.
HOWEVER, unless police has a special agenda or reasons to suspect that something is wrong, such rule is never tightly enforced till the consequence to detain someone until he provides the passport (again, I speak about "civilized countries", and I include Indonesia).
MY ADVICE is:
1) When you travel abroad, never bring the passport with you, when you go out from your hotel. The worst thing that could happen to you is to lose your passport or have it stolen, much worse than having the wallet stolen with all cards and other documt to you, pay the expenses, and ONLY THEN you can leave the country. You might even waste your flight return ticket, since all this may take several days.
2) At all times....u lose the paper photocopy and need to print another on........
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Just a few weeks ago, the police conduct a spot check in kampong bule and those without passport were detained, questioned and haress. Finally they were released after they went back to hotel n produce their passport .However i read that 2 ns men were deported back to singapore. I believe these 2 ns men hv passport.
So if we didn't bring along our passport when we go outings in batam, we also face a risk of harrassment if questioned by police.