JAKARTA: Indonesia’s military has stepped up naval and aerial patrols of the Natuna Sea area because of a rising number of foreign fishing vessels in the region.
The South-East Asian nation has deployed three ships and two aircraft in the gas-rich North Natuna Sea, and two additional vessels are on the way to join the group, Yudo Margono, commander of the Joint Regional Defense Command, said in statement.
Marsudi sent a diplomatic note to Beijing protesting the intrusion of Chinese vessels into Indonesia’s special economic zone in the area, according to a statement on the Cabinet Secretary’s website. On Dec. 12, Malaysia submitted to the United Nation’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf information on what it believes are its its sovereignty rights in the area.
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