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April 5, 2016 edition

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.

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February 16, 2016 edition

Mysteriously missing from most media reports on the controversy over how to develop the giant Masela gas field is the danger posed by a 2,000-3,000-meter-deep undersea trench, which lies between the concession and the remote Tanimbar islands in the Arafura Sea.
Part of the quake-prone Indian Ocean fault line that skirts Sumatra and Java and curls around the southern coast of eastern Indonesia's Nusa Tenggara island chain, it is one major reason why Australian firm Woodside refuses to pipe gas from its Sunrise field to Timor-Leste.

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