Indonesia Maritime defence and security issue

[pr1v4t33r]

Even if our ministry win the legal battle with the owner I don't think they will sink that Chinese ship. It's a big ship and expensive too unlike most wooden boats they captured recently.. The ministry may likely handed it over to local fishermen or put it to another use.

That is not a fishing vessel, but tramper ship, equipped with large cool storage and production facility. This ship collect fishs from smaller fishing boats. i think our local fisherman won't have enough capital to operate and maintain this ship in a long run since this ship must be operate by corporation to be utilised efficiently.

The wooden boats kinda expensive too. The kind that usually operated by Thailand fisherman (around 200GT), worth millions of dollar a piece.

 

[pr1v4t33r]

Fresh catch. 7 vietnamese boats with 84 vietnamese crews captured around Natuna water, (13/4/2015) - i say sayonara to these boats!

KM BD 95582 - 35 GT - 12 crews
KM BD 96797 - 35 GT - 13 crews
KM BD 95980 - 35 GT - 12 crews
KM BD 95443 - 35 GT - 13 crews
KM BD 95884 - 35 GT - 12 crews
KM BD 95159 - 35 GT - 11 crews
KM TG 92420 - 45 GT - 11 crews

The news : Lagi, Menteri Susi Tangkap 7 Kapal Vietnam Curi Ikan di Laut

 

[Beast]

Did Indonesia sink the captured Chinese ships?

Indonesia will only sink small fry illegal ship like vietnam, malaysia and Thailand.

Indonesia is looking forward many cooperation with China in development of infrastructure.

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

Indonesian navy nabs two Thai boats
The Jakarta Post/Asia News NetworkThursday, Apr 16, 2015

A Thai fishing boat which Indonesia says had encroached into its territorial waters.

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Navy has seized two Thai boats carrying several tons of fish in Natuna waters on Sunday.

"The boats were caught by Navy corvette KRI Pattimura in the Natuna Sea during its patrol. The arrested boats were flying the Thai flag," said Navy spokesperson, Cdre. Mahanan Simorangkir.

The illegal boats are PSF 1812, owned by Malaysian company Keat Lean Fishery, and KM Cahaya Laut, a vessel owned by Indonesian company PT Mandra Guna Gema Sejati.

According to Manahan, during the raid, the Navy found five tons of assorted fish in the PSF 1812 vessel and another 10 tons in the KM Cahaya Laut. Some 80 crew members on the two boats were arrested, including PSF 1812 captain Kamporn Siris Sawas and Cahaya Laut captain Phitak Imthua.

"All crews and captains are Thai," Mahanan said.

The PSF 1812 was detained after the captain was unable to present the ship's fishing permits, while the KM Cahaya Laut's permits had expired.

Mahanan said the two boats were now at port in Tarempa, Anambas Islands regency, Riau Islands, awaiting further legal action.

Article 69 of Law No. 45/2009 on fisheries stipulates that vessels found guilty of involvement in illegal fishing would be, with sufficient evidence, sunk by maritime authorities.

Indonesia sank 33 of 38 foreign vessels found to be illegally fishing in its territorial waters between 2007 and 2012.

- See more at: Indonesian navy nabs two Thai boats, AsiaOne Asia News

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

Hai Fa lacks legal basis to sue Susi: Police
Fedina S. Sundaryani and Nani Afrida, The Jakarta Post, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta | National | Fri, April 24 2015, 6:55 AM

National News
The National Police said investigators would halt their investigation into a defamation report filed by the owner of Chinese fishing vessel MV Hai Fa against Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti.

National Police detective chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso said the report lacked a legal basis.

“The defamation article [of the Criminal Code] can only be used against an individual and not a company or a ship. This just makes it difficult for our investigators,” he told reporters at National Police headquarters in South Jakarta.

Earlier this month, the company operating the MV Hai Fa filed a police report against Susi for defamation.

The company’s legal representative, Made Rahman, said Susi’s statement, in which she said that the ship was operating illegally, had been damaging to the company.

In March, the Ambon District Court slapped the operator of the 4,306 gross ton MV Hai Fa with a fine of Rp 200 million (US$15,444) after the fishing vessel was convicted of illegally netting hundreds of tons of fish in Ambon waters.

The ship was reportedly the largest foreign vessel ever caught by the government.

Susi had said her ministry was preparing to file an appeal on the ruling at the Supreme Court, claiming “we can’t allow this kind of verdict to be handed down to perpetrators of illegal fishing”.

The MV Hai Fa flew the Panamian flag, though most of its crew were Chinese nationals.

Separately, Made insisted Susi had misrepresented the ship’s activities.

“The MV Hai Fa was used not to fish but to transport fish caught by another vessel,” he said, acknowledging that the ship was guilty of transporting several species of fish that had been banned for fishing.

“However, we have already paid the fines. The minister should not have filed an appeal,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian Navy is planning to sink four foreign ships from the Philippines that were caught carrying out illegal fishing activities in February.

Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Ade Supandi confirmed that a district court in Tarakan, North Kalimantan, had ordered their sinking.

“We will sink the four ships in May,” Ade told The Jakarta Post in Jakarta on Thursday.

The four ships were caught by warship KRI Slamet Riyadi 293 miles off East Tarakan in February. The four boats were: Van Boat (VB) Vien 09, VB Saint Thomas, VB Saint Jose and VB Santa Cruz. They were taken to Tarakan Naval Base while their owners underwent questioning

Ade said that currently, several foreign ships were awaiting court rulings on charges of illegal fishing in Indonesia waters.

The ships included two Thai boats caught in Natuna waters in April.

The boats were caught by Navy corvette KRI Pattimura during its patrol and are now being held at a port in Tarempa, Anambas Islands regency.

Meanwhile, on Thursday the Navy arrested a Vietnamese vessel also in Natuna waters close to the border between Indonesia and Malaysia.

The ship was caught by the KRI Pattimura after the crew was unable to present their permit. Currently, the ship and its crew are being held at the Pontianak Naval Base for further investigation.

Article 69 of Law No. 45/2009 on fisheries stipulates that vessels found guilty of illegal fishing activities would be sunk by maritime authorities.
See more at: Hai Fa lacks legal basis to sue Susi: Police | The Jakarta Post

 

[NarThoD]

@Yorozuya
Let's get this over with

Are those illegal fishing agencies are unveiled and disbanded? YES, The responsible person in it are under trial. Are those internal culprit who support/backing this illegal fisheries are also investigated? YES, Status removed, political rights removed, under trial and the judges won't easy on them. Is there any slaves in there? YES, there are Burmese, Vnese, and majority Indonesians itself. What happen to the slaves after it? They're under law's protection, receiving a lot of skill training so they didn't have to rob or steal to feed their families. Why your govt not doing this since long time ago? Because we're too soft on almost anything in the past, but fortunately current govt care about it and act to solve it.

Do it answer all your questions?

I see your comment say to us we're blind nationalist who only care about status less than its people.

Do you see ME bragging a lot about our own nation without facts?
Do you see US attacking and insulting other country without facts? Unless someone do it first on us and we're won't afraid to retaliate

We're just responding to a person or an ordinary civillian who act like above to us, is it wrong?

It's not like I hate you, no it's not. I'm sure you're smart person, unlike your Vietnamese friend here who keep making fun of himself and his nation

 

[pr1v4t33r]

good point comrade.


Btw, I read some news yesterday that on National Resurgence Day (Hari Kebangkitan Nasional) susi will sink 45 foreign illegal boats that already seized and stored until now in various place around Indonesia.

Will be a dramatic sight.

 

[William Hung]

@Yorozuya
Let's get this over with

Are those illegal fishing agencies are unveiled and disbanded? YES, The responsible person in it are under trial. Are those internal culprit who support/backing this illegal fisheries are also investigated? YES, Status removed, political rights removed, under trial and the judges won't easy on them. Is there any slaves in there? YES, there are Burmese, Vnese, and majority Indonesians itself. What happen to the slaves after it? They're under law's protection, receiving a lot of skill training so they didn't have to rob or steal to feed their families. Why your govt not doing this since long time ago? Because we're too soft on almost anything in the past, but fortunately current govt care about it and act to solve it.

Do it answer all your questions?

Thanks for posting this. Let me say something first to clarify any possible misunderstandings. I have no problem with Indonesia cracking down on illegal fishing and burning the boats. If you check the first few pages of this thread, I actually supported this hard-line policy. I'm also not denying that some good has came out of this, where slavery in Indonesian water is getting much needed attention.

What I was questioning is the Indonesian govt's sincerity. Do they really care? my reason for asking this is why didn't your country deal with this issue, or at least talk about it, earlier? Your new govt came into power since last October correct? did they even addressed this issue in the first few months? or did they waited until some media exposed the situation. Admittedly, I've only been reading English news about Indonesia and not your local news, that's why I said I would love it if you guys prove me wrong and info me from your own native source. But from the English sources I've read so far, there were no indications that your current govt had wanted to deal with the slavery situations before it was "exposed" recently.

In the other thread, I've provided a source from academic researchers who have shown that slavery in the fishing industry was known since the mid-1990s, alot of which involves Indonesian victims. Those fishing slavery operations in international waters are probably more widespread and worst than the ones in ASEAN waters. Foreign govt has spoken up about it but there's not much they could do since it can only be solved by the govt of the victims (mostly ASEAN countries, including Indonesia) and the govt of the perpetrators (mostly from SK and Taiwan). So since the mid-1990s until now those slavery operations still exist. But did your country spoke up about it? did your new govt spoke up and act on it when they first came into power? More importantly, have your country raised the slavery issue to countries like South Korea and Taiwan whose companies are probably doing a lot worse to your poor Indonesian victims? Again, I haven't read anything on Indonesia protesting or raising this issue to SK/TW on the diplomatic level. If you can prove me wrong, then I would genuinely be happy. It means you're the first ASEAN country to speak up against SK/TW.

Other South East Asia countries like Thailand, VietNam, Myanmar, Cambodia, etc, also stayed silent simply because they need SK/TW more than those two countries need them. SK/TW gives them **** and they have to take it because they are too poor and need to export labor. Not to mention the fear of retaliation from TW/SK if these poor countries speak up and embarrass SK/TW (cancel investment, labor import, etc.). I was arguing that Indonesia is probably in the same boat and also turned the blind eye. So if you can prove me wrong and show me that Indonesia have indeed spoken up against SK/TW about their fishing industry enslaving poor people, I would be happy and applaud your country. If not, then I'm justified in doubting your country's sincerity in tackling this issue. If your govt really cared, they would speak up against SK and TW too right? Those two countries are the biggest perpetrators.

I see your comment say to us we're blind nationalist who only care about status less than its people.

Do you see ME bragging a lot about our own nation without facts?
Do you see US attacking and insulting other country without facts?

We're just responding to a person or an ordinary civillian who act like above to us, is it wrong?

It's not like I hate you, no it's not. I'm sure you're smart person, unlike your Vietnamese friend here who keep making fun of himself and his nation

My comment about blind nationalism was directed at a specific member, not the whole country. Read my post again.

She attacked those human rights NGO people that have helped the poor Indonesian victims. They were one of the first people that uncovered this slavery issue and have given them assistance, yet that Indonesian member said she hate those human rights people, etc.

And no, I'm not smart at all. The real smart Vietnamese don't even bother go on PDF.

 

[Nike]

Thanks for posting this. Let me say something first to clarify any possible misunderstandings. I have no problem with Indonesia cracking down on illegal fishing and burning the boats. If you check the first few pages of this thread, I actually supported this hard-line policy. I'm also not denying that some good has came out of this, where slavery in Indonesian water is getting much needed attention.

What I was questioning is the Indonesian govt's sincerity. Do they really care? my reason for asking this is why didn't your country deal with this issue, or at least talk about it, earlier? Your new govt came into power since last October correct? did they even addressed this issue in the first few months? or did they waited until some media exposed the situation. Admittedly, I've only been reading English news about Indonesia and not your local news, that's why I said I would love it if you guys prove me wrong and info me from your own native source. But from the English sources I've read so far, there were no indications that your current govt had wanted to deal with the slavery situations before it was "exposed" recently.

In the other thread, I've provided a source from academic researchers who have shown that slavery in the fishing industry was known since the mid-1990s, alot of which involves Indonesian victims. Those fishing slavery operations in international waters are probably more widespread and worst than the ones in ASEAN waters. Foreign govt has spoken up about it but there's not much they could do since it can only be solved by the govt of the victims (mostly ASEAN countries, including Indonesia) and the govt of the perpetrators (mostly from SK and Taiwan). So since the mid-1990s until now those slavery operations still exist. But did your country spoke up about it? did your new govt spoke up and act on it when they first came into power? More importantly, have your country raised the slavery issue to countries like South Korea and Taiwan whose companies are probably doing a lot worse to your poor Indonesian victims? Again, I haven't read anything on Indonesia protesting or raising this issue to SK/TW on the diplomatic level. If you can prove me wrong, then I would genuinely be happy. It means you're the first ASEAN country to speak up against SK/TW.

Other South East Asia countries like Thailand, VietNam, Myanmar, Cambodia, etc, also stayed silent simply because they need SK/TW more than those two countries need them. SK/TW gives them **** and they have to take it because they are too poor and need to export labor. Not to mention the fear of retaliation from TW/SK if these poor countries speak up and embarrass SK/TW (cancel investment, labor import, etc.). I was arguing that Indonesia is probably in the same boat and also turned the blind eye. So if you can prove me wrong and show me that Indonesia have indeed spoken up against SK/TW about their fishing industry enslaving poor people, I would be happy and applaud your country. If not, then I'm justified in doubting your country's sincerity in tackling this issue. If your govt really cared, they would speak up against SK and TW too right? Those two countries are the biggest perpetrators.




My comment about blind nationalism was directed at a specific member, not the whole country. Read my post again.

She attacked those human rights NGO people that have helped the poor Indonesian victims. They were one of the first people that uncovered this slavery issue and have given them assistance, yet that Indonesian member said she hate those human rights people, etc.

And no, I'm not smart at all. The real smart Vietnamese don't even bother go on PDF.

have a talk with mirror? speak for yourself

 

[pr1v4t33r]

Ahhh.. welcome aboard! @yorozua. Please enjoy the discussion. I will join later.
Go take your seat and please behave

 

[NarThoD]

Thanks for posting this. Let me say something first to clarify any possible misunderstandings. I have no problem with Indonesia cracking down on illegal fishing and burning the boats. If you check the first few pages of this thread, I actually supported this hard-line policy. I'm also not denying that some good has came out of this, where slavery in Indonesian water is getting much needed attention.

What I was questioning is the Indonesian govt's sincerity. Do they really care? my reason for asking this is why didn't your country deal with this issue, or at least talk about it, earlier? Your new govt came into power since last October correct? did they even addressed this issue in the first few months? or did they waited until some media exposed the situation. Admittedly, I've only been reading English news about Indonesia and not your local news, that's why I said I would love it if you guys prove me wrong and info me from your own native source. But from the English sources I've read so far, there were no indications that your current govt had wanted to deal with the slavery situations before it was "exposed" recently.

In the other thread, I've provided a source from academic researchers who have shown that slavery in the fishing industry was known since the mid-1990s, alot of which involves Indonesian victims. Those fishing slavery operations in international waters are probably more widespread and worst than the ones in ASEAN waters. Foreign govt has spoken up about it but there's not much they could do since it can only be solved by the govt of the victims (mostly ASEAN countries, including Indonesia) and the govt of the perpetrators (mostly from SK and Taiwan). So since the mid-1990s until now those slavery operations still exist. But did your country spoke up about it? did your new govt spoke up and act on it when they first came into power? More importantly, have your country raised the slavery issue to countries like South Korea and Taiwan whose companies are probably doing a lot worse to your poor Indonesian victims? Again, I haven't read anything on Indonesia protesting or raising this issue to SK/TW on the diplomatic level. If you can prove me wrong, then I would genuinely be happy. It means you're the first ASEAN country to speak up against SK/TW.

Other South East Asia countries like Thailand, VietNam, Myanmar, Cambodia, etc, also stayed silent simply because they need SK/TW more than those two countries need them. SK/TW gives them **** and they have to take it because they are too poor and need to export labor. Not to mention the fear of retaliation from TW/SK if these poor countries speak up and embarrass SK/TW (cancel investment, labor import, etc.). I was arguing that Indonesia is probably in the same boat and also turned the blind eye. So if you can prove me wrong and show me that Indonesia have indeed spoken up against SK/TW about their fishing industry enslaving poor people, I would be happy and applaud your country. If not, then I'm justified in doubting your country's sincerity in tackling this issue. If your govt really cared, they would speak up against SK and TW too right? Those two countries are the biggest perpetrators.




My comment about blind nationalism was directed at a specific member, not the whole country. Read my post again.

She attacked those human rights NGO people that have helped the poor Indonesian victims. They were one of the first people that uncovered this slavery issue and have given them assistance, yet that Indonesian member said she hate those human rights people, etc.

And no, I'm not smart at all. The real smart Vietnamese don't even bother go on PDF.

Could you gimme that academic researchers link? I need to read it

 

[William Hung]

have a talk with mirror? speak for yourself

I'm only replying here because NarThoD tagged me. Stop being so hateful.

Could you gimme that academic researchers link? I need to read it

From here:

ICSF - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers | SAMUDRA | Issue No : 65 | Forced into Slavery

That site even gave the email address of the University researchers. You are free to email them to ask for updates, they will usually reply.

Ahhh.. welcome aboard! @yorozua. Please enjoy the discussion. I will join later.
Go take your seat and please behave

I'll ask you again: open a new thread on this topic so I can join you there to discuss.

One of your compatriot has already given me a hateful reply here. There are also other stalkers who constantly follow me around to report me and I have been banned many times for simple offtopic posts.

Our topic is clearly offtopic so I request that you open that thread so I can join. I would love to learn and would only continue to reply there.

So open that thread so I can discuss there, don't disappoint me! I won't reply further in this thread cos you might see me banned next.

 

[Nike]

I'm only replying here because NarThoD tagged me. Stop being so hateful.



From here:

ICSF - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers | SAMUDRA | Issue No : 65 | Forced into Slavery

That site even gave the email address of the University researchers. You are free to email them to ask for updates, they will usually reply.



I'll ask you again: open a new thread on this topic so I can join you there to discuss.

One of your compatriot has already given me a hateful reply here. There are also other stalkers who constantly follow me around to report me and I have been banned many times for simple offtopic posts.

Our topic is clearly offtopic so I request that you open that thread so I can join. I would love to learn and would only continue to reply there.

So open that thread so I can discuss there, don't disappoint me! I won't reply further in this thread cos you might see me banned next.

since when i said i hate NGO? what i hate is human rights promoter

are human right promoter is NGO?

hell no, there is so many kind NGO in this world

human right promoter is kind of bullshit people, and full of hypocrisy just like you who twisting other people words

 

[pr1v4t33r]

Indonesia vows to end illegal fishing, slavery in its waters

Indonesia’s new government, which came into power in October last year, is taking a very hard line with both illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) and slavery as part of its commitment to preserving the country’s marine resources and avoiding any illegal practices within its fisheries, according to Saut P Hutagalung, the Republic of Indonesia’s Director General for Fisheries Product Processing and Marketing at the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF).

“Sustainability is part of the president’s vision,” Hutagalung told SeafoodSource at Seafood Expo Global. “This is not just a question of sustaining resources, this is also about how to sustain livelihoods, the fishing profession and the economies of our coastal communities.”

Since the Southeast Asian country’s president, Joko Widodo, announced a policy to combat IUU in November, a number of steps have been taken to “break down illegal fishing,” such as running checks on the larger domestic and foreign vessels and the co-operations that exist, said Hutagalung.

By the end of this month, MMAF will have details on the number of vessels operating in the country’s waters and the number that “need to be sent home,” and it is working closely with neighboring countries like Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines to enable this to happen.

Through its IUU crackdown, the Indonesian government recently discovered cases of slavery, involving some 2,257 foreign crewmembers. To date, 400 crew have been evacuated for their own safety to their home countries of Burma, Cambodia and Laos with the help of the International Organization for Migrants (IOM) and institutes of human rights. A new legal process is underway to deal with the rest.

“This really opened our eyes. But the government has reacted very quickly to tackle the problem. The president created two task forces on 8 April, one for combating IUU fishing, the other to handle slavery issues, to escalate the seriousness of the problems," he said.

“Slavery shouldn’t happen anywhere, it’s against humanity and it’s totally unacceptable. Our government is very serious about ending it and IUU fishing.”

To ensure the process remains fully transparent and to alleviate concerns in the marketplace, Indonesian government officials have also approached the foreign embassies to show them “on the ground” how it is combating the situation, he said.

Indonesia vows to end illegal fishing, slavery in its waters - SeafoodSource.com

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3 Vietnamese illegal fishing boats captured on natuna water (24/4/15)

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5 Thailand Illegal fishing boats captured on Pejantan Water around Karimata strait (30/4/15)

KM Sudita 14 - 115 GT - 15 crews
‎KM Sudita 5 - 113 GT - 16 crews
KM Sudita 8 - 112 GT - 11 crews
KM Jala Mitra 081 - 112 GT - 18 crews
KM Sudita 13 - 108 GT - 18 crews


Indonesian navy nabs five Thai's illegal fishing vessels

A number of five vessels of illegal fishing in Indonesian seas was successfully seized by Vessel of Indonesia (KRI) from the Indonesian Fleet Command West Region (Koarmabar). Kapitan Pattimura 371, the name of KRI, caught five fishing vessels from Thailand around Karimata Strait.

"The vessel weighs 112 tons gross was not equipped with documents and contains approximately five tons of fish along with 11 crews," said the head of the Office of Information Koarmabar Marine Lt. Col. Ariris Miftachurrahman, Friday (1/5).

The arrest occurred on Thursday (30/4), yesterday. At that time, KRI Kapitan Pattimura conducting operations in the 15th Kretya Baruna Operation under command (BKO) of RI Maritime Security Forces Fleet Command, West Region (Guskamlaarmabar). The fifth ship was transporting fish caught from the waters around the Karimata Strait and not equipped with official documents.

In the first arrest, KRI Kapitan Pattimura managed to secure around KM Sudita 8 around Pejantan Island, within 47 nautical miles from Karimata Strait. Then, KRI Kapitan Pattimura backs for search around Pejantan Island. As a result, it had found KM Jala Mitra 081 with weigh around 112 Gross Tonnes (GT) and had contain five fish mixture without official documents. KM Jala Mitra 081 were manned by about 18 people.

Two hours after the arrest of KM Mitra Jala, KRI Kapitan Pattimura seized Sudita KM 14, which was fishing with a distance of 68 nautical miles from the Karimata Strait. The foreign fishing vessels (KIA) from Thailand did not have official documents and loaded three tons of fish. KM Sudita 14 manned by about 15 people with vessel weight reached 115 GT.

Furthermore, KRI Kapitan Pattimura-371 also secured Sudita KM 5 and KM Sudita 13. Both foreign fishing vessels have a total load of 25 tons of fish and have no official documents. If KM Sudita 5 weighs 113 GT and manned by 16 crew member, KM Sudita 13 has a weight of 108 GT and accommodates 16 crew members.

From the five ships, Koarmabar arrested 76 crew members and 43 tons of fish. Ariris added, those five illegal fishing vessels will be driven to Sea Base (Lanal) Pontianak, West Kalimantan.

"For further examination, the ships will be taken to the naval base Pontianak,"

Indonesian navy nabs five Thai's illegal fishing vessels | Republika Online

 

[pr1v4t33r]

What I was questioning is the Indonesian govt's sincerity. Do they really care? my reason for asking this is why didn't your country deal with this issue, or at least talk about it, earlier? Your new govt came into power since last October correct? did they even addressed this issue in the first few months? or did they waited until some media exposed the situation. Admittedly, I've only been reading English news about Indonesia and not your local news, that's why I said I would love it if you guys prove me wrong and info me from your own native source. But from the English sources I've read so far, there were no indications that your current govt had wanted to deal with the slavery situations before it was "exposed" recently.

It's really no use to questioning the motive of Indonesian Government. What's really matter is what Indonesian Government do to answer and resolve this long overdue issue.

Before we continue further, it's critical to understand that Indonesia currently have a New Government in place after 10 years of SBY administration. A relatively peaceful admnistration with strong democratization process and had achieved fundamental economic development. By that time Indonesia already enter G20 group, and world bank announced Indonesia as the 10th largest economy in the world (based on PPP). Yet Indonesian people demand more decisive leadership with hands-on approch to solve various remaining problem in Indonesia.

The new president was inagureated on 20 Oktober 2014 and he inagurated his ministers on 27 Oktober 2014. Some of the ministrial position are new, so they have to resolve some administrative work and do some internal reorganization before they can work effectively. One ministrial position that related to this issue is Ministry of Maritime Coordinator. At that time, this ministry don't even have office to work, and don't have any employee either.

So, it's very wrong to assume that the new Government can immediately implement their policy once the president inagureted.

In the other thread, I've provided a source from academic researchers who have shown that slavery in the fishing industry was known since the mid-1990s, alot of which involves Indonesian victims.

Those fishing slavery operations in international waters are probably more widespread and worst than the ones in ASEAN waters. Foreign govt has spoken up about it but there's not much they could do since it can only be solved by the govt of the victims (mostly ASEAN countries, including Indonesia) and the govt of the perpetrators (mostly from SK and Taiwan). So since the mid-1990s until now those slavery operations still exist.

From this academic report, we can see that slavery issue had already plague the fishing industry in ASEAN from around 1990. Foreign Government, despide their voice to condemn the alleged slavery issue, they keep buying and enjoying the fresh supply of fish without even notifying their customer and keep enjoying the hefty profit they made. Their mouth keep condeming and eating at the same time. Hypocrisy at the highest order.

Part of why this complication could happened, was because there was no to little evidance, and no interest at the higher level of political elite that can move the resource and power to stop this evil practice. They don't really care as long as their fresh supply of fish keep coming to their table. They act all high and noble when the reality said otherwise.

For the untrained mind, they can say and argue that the foreign Government can do nothing to deal with this situation, when the reality is they have the power to push reform of the fishing industry that become their supplier. They can put BAN on this fishery industry that utilized slave worker to power up their fishing industry. Just like recent threat to BAN Thailand fishing industry from supplying EU fish market.

But why oh why, they choose to act now, when they already knew this reality tens year ago? They even already made few publication with some little evidence here and there. Why don't they put BAN on this evil fishing industry long ago? such Irony....

But did your country spoke up about it? did your new govt spoke up and act on it when they first came into power? More importantly, have your country raised the slavery issue to countries like South Korea and Taiwan whose companies are probably doing a lot worse to your poor Indonesian victims? Again, I haven't read anything on Indonesia protesting or raising this issue to SK/TW on the diplomatic level. If you can prove me wrong, then I would genuinely be happy. It means you're the first ASEAN country to speak up against SK/TW.

What use is words, when we are already seeing stern action being shown today by current Indonesian Government to tackle this issue. What use is few publication if that can't even made EU to put BAN on Thailand or Vietnam, or other fishing industry in ASEAN for utilizing slave worker in their fishery industry since 1990? Maybe, that can give such a good feeling because you already voice your concern, but that won't bring you anywhere. Words won't bring you anywhere. But stern action bring you somewhere. Bring you closer your destination. bring you closer to your goals.

Once the new Indonesian Government with the new maritime vision show some tough act toward illegal fishing practice on Indonesian water, all the silenced and covered evil reality once again resurfaced and gaining forceful momentum. Why, because it's backed and supported by the political will of the highest order. By the president and the ministry themselves. They have resource and power to stop whatever evil practice that has long entangled Indonesia, ASEAN and it's neighboor fishery industry. They have the power and they have the political will to deal with the issue.

Other South East Asia countries like Thailand, VietNam, Myanmar, Cambodia, etc, also stayed silent simply because they need SK/TW more than those two countries need them. SK/TW gives them **** and they have to take it because they are too poor and need to export labor. Not to mention the fear of retaliation from TW/SK if these poor countries speak up and embarrass SK/TW (cancel investment, labor import, etc.). I was arguing that Indonesia is probably in the same boat and also turned the blind eye. So if you can prove me wrong and show me that Indonesia have indeed spoken up against SK/TW about their fishing industry enslaving poor people, I would be happy and applaud your country. If not, then I'm justified in doubting your country's sincerity in tackling this issue. If your govt really cared, they would speak up against SK and TW too right? Those two countries are the biggest perpetrators.

That's because those ASEAN countries have no balls, they have no vision, thay have no resources and power to deal with the said countries. But Indonesia is the Giant of South East Asia. We are big, we are powerful, we have abundant resources, and today we have visionary leadership that will smack and slap anyone in their face if they try to disturb our national interest.

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