ADUN SPEAKS | If the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opinion was final in awarding the sovereignty of Pulau Batu Puteh to Singapore in 2008, then why the grand talk of reviewing the decision in 2017 by way of an appeal?

As the appeal process was started under the government of Najib Abdul Razak, it was abruptly halted due to the general election in 2018, which the Pakatan Harapan coalition won and Dr Mahathir Mohammed became the prime minister.

Within a short period of Harapan’s administration, the decision was made not to appeal against the ICJ ruling on Pulau Batu Puteh.

Mahathir might say that the ICJ’s decision was final and that it served no purpose to review the early position.

Moreover, the cost of the appeal was high.

I am not sure whether Mahathir was saying that...