Vigilance over South China Sea Incidents
Last month's incident, in which two armed Chinese Coast Guard vessels seized back a captured trawler inside Indonesia's 12-nautical mile territorial limit has presented the Joko Widodo government and the Indonesian military with a whole new ball game in the South China Sea they can hardly ignore.
Jakarta may not be a claimant to the disputed Spratly Islands, but China's assertion that the 200-ton Kway Fey was in 'traditional Chinese fishing grounds' suggests Beijing does not recognize Indonesia's 200-mile economic exclusion zone (EEZ) either.
April 5, 2016
Last month's incident, in which two armed Chinese Coast Guard vessels seized back a captured trawler inside Indonesia's 12-nautical mile territorial limit has presented the Joko Widodo government and the Indonesian military with a whole new ball game in the South China Sea they can hardly ignore.
Jakarta may not be a claimant to the disputed Spratly Islands, but China's assertion that the 200-ton Kway Fey was in 'traditional Chinese fishing grounds' su
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