ONE by one, foreign fishing boats at the Marine and Fisheries Resource Monitoring Base Station in Batam, Riau Islands, disappear from the water’s surface. On March 3, the government sunk 10 foreign fishing boats in the waters of Air Raja, Batam, Riau Islands. The ships were sunk by breaching their hulls, filling them with water, and adding weights. Hopefully, fish would call those wrecks home.

That fleet of illegal foreign fishing vessels,