Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Meritorious Service Medal) | |
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Type | Medal |
Established | 1962 |
Country | Singapore |
Awarded for | Service of conspicuous merit in Singapore, or in special circumstances elsewhere |
Status | Active |
Post-nominals | PJG |
Precedence | |
Next (higher) | Pingat Gagah Perkasa |
Next (lower) | Bintang Bakti Masyarakat |
Equivalent | Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Tentera) |
Ribbon after 1996 Ribbon prior to 1996 |
The Pingat Jasa Gemilang (English: Meritorious Service Medal) is a Singaporean national honour and medal instituted in 1962. [1] It may be awarded to any person who has performed "service of conspicuous merit characterised by resource and devotion to duty, including long service marked by exceptional ability, merit and exemplary conduct within Singapore". It may also be awarded to any person outside of Singapore under exceptional circumstances. [2]
Recipients are entitled to use the post-nominal letters PJG.[ citation needed ]
The Singapore Armed Forces equivalent of the award is the Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Tentera). [3]
The Pingat Jasa Gemilang was one of six state awards instituted on 19 April 1962. [4] The rules of the award were revised in July 1996. [1]
There have been more than 103 recipients of the Pingat Jasa Gemilang since 1998. Several notable recipients include: [5]
Year | Recipient | Notes | Ref |
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1962 | Tan Howe Liang | weightlifter | |
Stanley Toft Stewart | politician | ||
1974 | S. R. Nathan | politician | |
1978 | Ngiam Tong Dow | Civil servant | |
1979 | Tommy Koh | diplomat | |
1990 | Chor Yeok Eng | politician | |
1992 | Chen Wen Hsi | artist (posthumous) | |
1996 | Liu Kang | artist | [6] |
1998 | Tee Tua Ba | High Commissioner in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei | |
2003 | Khoo Boon Hui | Commissioner of the Singapore Police Force | |
Tan Swie Hian | artist | ||
2005 | Chan Heng Chee | diplomat | |
Mohideen MP Haja Rubin | retired Supreme Court Judge | ||
2006 | Edwin Nadason Thumboo | poet and academic | |
Joscelin Yeo | swimmer | ||
2007 | Lee Hsien Yang | former CEO of SingTel | |
Gerard Ee | Chairman of the National Kidney Foundation | ||
2008 | Feng Tianwei | table tennis player | |
Wang Yuegu | table tennis player | ||
Li Jiawei | table tennis player | ||
2010 | Peter Ong | Head of Civil Service | |
2012 | Wong Ngit Liong | Chairman of National University of Singapore Board of Trustees | [7] |
2015 | Canagasabai Kunalan | athlete and educator | |
2015 | Hamdan Abu Bakar | Bruneian politician | [8] |
2016 | Joseph Schooling | swimmer | |
Yip Pin Xiu | swimmer | [9] | |
2017 | Mohamad Fuzi Harun | Inspector-General of Police, Royal Malaysia Police | [10] |
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