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Indonesia speeds up marine boundary delimitation with Malaysia
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has appointed Ambassador Eddy Pratomo as his special envoy in an effort to speed up the delimitation of maritime boundaries with Malaysia.
The appointment comes as a result of a meeting between the Indonesian President and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak during the former’s visit to Malaysia from February 5-7 and meetings between the two countries’ Foreign Ministers in early 2015.
Accordingly, the two countries will send their special envoys to participate in the delimitation of maritime boundaries.
Eddy Pratomo was formerly Indonesian Ambassador to Germany and Malaysian special envoy Tan Sri Mohd Radzi Abdul Rahman was previously the Ambassador to Vietnam and Japan.
Under the agreements reached between the leaders of the two nations, the special envoys will take political, legal and technical aspects into account.
Indonesia speeds up marine boundary delimitation with Malaysia -- Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)
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Palau burns Vietnamese boats caught fishing illegally
The tiny Pacific nation of Palau, fighting a rising tide of illegal fishing in its waters, has set fire to four boats of Vietnamese caught poaching sea cucumbers and other marine life in its waters.
In this photo taken Wednesday, June 10, 2015 and released by the Government of the Republic of Palau, Vietnamese fishermen sit on their fishing ships anchored at the Marine Law Enforcement Division Port in Koror, Palau after being caught fishing illegally in the waters of the country. The tiny Pacific nation of Palau, fighting a rising tide of illegal fishing in its waters, has set fire to four boats of Vietnamese caught poaching sea cucumbers and other marine life in its waters. Palau’s president, Tommy Remengesau Jr., said the boats were burned Friday morning, June 12, 2015. He hopes to turn most of the island nation’s territorial waters into a national marine sanctuary, banning commercial fishing and exports apart from limited areas to be used by domestic fishermen and tourists. (The Government of the Republic of Palau via AP) (Associated Press)
Palau’s president, Tommy Remengesau Jr., said the boats were burned Friday morning. He hopes to turn most of the island nation’s territorial waters into a national marine sanctuary, banning commercial fishing and exports apart from limited areas to be used by domestic fishermen and tourists.
“We wanted to send a very strong message. We will not tolerate any more these pirates who come and steal our resources,” Remengesau said in a phone interview with The Associated Press from Washington, D.C., where he was visiting.
The country created the world’s first shark sanctuary in 2009, but until recently had only one patrol boat to help protect its great hammerheads, leopard sharks and more than 130 other species of shark and rays fighting extinction.
The four boats destroyed Friday were among 15 Palau authorities have caught fishing illegally in their waters since last year with loads of sharks and shark fins, lobsters, sea cucumbers and reef fish. Several of the boats that it seized, stripped of their fishing gear, are due to carry 77 crew members of the boats back to Vietnam.
Remengesau said that the stream of poachers showed that just stripping the rogue boats of their nets and confiscating their catches was not enough
“I think it’s necessary to burn the boats,” he said.
more:
- Palau burns Vietnamese boats caught fishing illegally - The Washington Post
- Palau burns Vietnamese boats caught fishing illegally - Yahoo News
Eleven Indonesian pirates, who were arrested after hijacking the Malaysian vessel Zafirah in November 2012, will be extradited to Indonesia today via Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday.
looks like old news from 2013. Do u have a new one?
Eleven Indonesian pirates, who were arrested after hijacking the Malaysian vessel Zafirah in November 2012, will be extradited to Indonesia today via Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday.
Source: Tuoi Tre News
Yesterday Colonel Cao Xuan Trang, deputy commander of the Border Guard of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, had a meeting with Colonel Guntur Setyanto from the Indonesian Police High Command and Indonesian Consul General in HCM City Rachmaida Ginting about the extradition.
A Vietnam marine police unit seized the pirates and rescued nine crew members of the ship 40 nautical miles off Vung Tau City on Novemner 22, after receiving a notice from the International Maritime Bureau in Malaysia, Colonel Trang told the Indonesian officials at the meeting.
Trang also said that during the investigation process, Vietnamese agencies detected three other people involved in the piracy, two of whom are Indonesian citizens.
The nine rescued crew members include four from Indonesia and five from Myanmar, the official said.
Colonel Guntur Setyanto said the culprits will be punished in accordance with the laws of Indonesia, while Consul General Rachmaida Ginting thanked Vietnamese concerned agencies for looking after the seized pirates.
The Consul General later visited the detainees at the Chi Linh border guard station in Vung Tau City. All of them were in normal health condition.
As previously reported, eleven pirates attacked and commandeered a Malaysian-flagged ship, forcing nine sailors to leave the ship in a life raft off Vietnam’s southern Vung Tau City on November 21, 2012.
The pirates then changed the ship’s name, which was painted on the vessel’s side, to Sea Horse to avoid detection.
They also changed the ship’s IMO (International Maritime Organization) identification number from 9016387 to 9016081, and destroyed some navigation and communications tools on the ship.
The nine sailors were rescued the same day and the pirates were arrested one day later.
Photo from Vietnam Arrests 11 Pirates On Hijacked Ship
OK, I have one new for you. Its reported on 22/06/2015.
Are those arrested is regarding to the piracy of Malaysian tanker which then fled into the Vietnam's territorial waters??OK, I have one new for you. Its reported on 22/06/2015 10:46.
Link here: Hành trình truy bắt gắt gao 8 tên cướp biển người Indonesia
Photo from this news:
Bước đầu, cơ quan chức năng xác định 8 nghi phạm có tên: Hendry A (39 tuổi), Ruslan (60 tuổi), Kurniawan (41 tuổi), Faoji (27 tuổi), Randi Andilya (19 tuổi), Anjas (27 tuổi), Jhon Danyel Despol (38 tuổi) và Abnet (28 tuổi, đều mang quốc tịch Indonesia). Trong số này, Ruslan được cho là đối tượng giữ vai trò cầm đầu.
Hendry A (39 tuổi), Ruslan (60 ), Kurniawan (41 ), Faoji (27 ), Randi Andilya (19 ), Anjas (27 ), Jhon Danyel Despol (38 ) và Abnet (28 )
This sea pearates are Indonesia citizens.
Wow!!! It's really a big catch..Minister Susi: Indonesian fishermen now catching man-sized tuna
Recently Susi talked about the positive impact of her policies, one of which is that fishermen especially in Eastern Indonesia, have started to catch bigger fish. Much bigger.
— Susi Pudjiastuti (@susipudjiastuti) June 22, 2015 "Fishermen in the eastern part of Indonesia now catch tuna as big as a human," Susi said while chatting with reporters on Monday as quoted by Detik.
Is it possible that Susi’s aggressive anti-poaching policies have actually helped fisherman find bigger fish in the sea, or is this just a big fish story? Either way, that’s a whole lot of sushi waiting to happen..