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The sister of a man who was missing since March 27 after a boat collision off the Southern Islands<\/a> mourned his passing in a social media post, as news that his body was found in Indonesian waters broke on Sunday (April 5).<\/p>\n Police said in a statement on the same day that they were alerted by Indonesian authorities to a case of a body found floating off the sea of Karimun, to the southwest of Singapore, at about 3pm on March 30.<\/p>\n “The body, believed to be the missing person from the collision between a pleasure craft and supply vessel off the Southern Islands on March 27, was found motionless and subsequently retrieved from the waters,” they added.<\/p>\n A 49-year-old man has been arrested for rash navigation of a vessel, police said.<\/p>\n Two other people onboard the pleasure vessel were rescued.<\/p>\n Persons onboard the supply vessel were also accounted for, with no injuries reported, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said in its statement on March 27.<\/p>\n A day after the Singapore authorities were notified, the man’s sister penned an open note on her social media account.<\/p>\n AsiaOne is not identifying her social media account or name, out of respect for her wishes to be given “time and space” in the wake of the tragedy.<\/p>\n In her post, she shared a photo of herself as a baby with the deceased, calling him her “dearest Abang Adi” \u2014 a reference to the last two letters of his name \u2014 Chua Muhammad Syafidi.<\/p>\n “I would have asked you and your family out more often, because even a simple dinner\/trips with you could light up everyone’s hearts. Your jokes, your laughter, your presence…it was enough to make everyone laugh,” she wrote.<\/p>\n She recounted their shared memories, remembering him as someone who would help anyone in need.<\/p>\n “You were always there for everyone, If you could, you would have wanted to help everyone, and do everything for us, right?<\/p>\n “Your heart was just that kind…Everyone who knew you loves you dearly and your absence has left such a deep emptiness in our lives. It will never be the same without you after this,” she wrote.<\/p>\n Chua was buried at a cemetery in Lim Chu Kang on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n [[nid:732453]]<\/p>\n‘You could light up everyone’s hearts’<\/h2>\n