Tempers Flare over Natuna Islands

Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti has threatened to file charges against China in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

The controversy erupted two weeks ago when a Chinese trawler was captured by an Indonesian patrol boat in Indonesia's Natuna waters. In an apparent attempt to foil the arrest, a Chinese coastguard ship rammed into the patrol boat.

"This is an illegal intervention by Chinese coast guard officers," Sus

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