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more look like makassar class or sub-class banjarmasin design or new model?Construction progress of the 5th LPD built by PT.PAL Indonesia.
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tarlac class, or we could say.. improved makassar class..
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Construction progress of the 5th LPD built by PT.PAL Indonesia.
Only need dozen month to build it now? They got good learning curve
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We are speedy learners, no doubt.. now for the interesting part..
Looks like a corvettes, 57 mm bofors mk 3, 4 AShM launcher, helipad for medium class helicopter (looks like to accomodate something like Bell412EPI), no hanggar, the back design much like Nahkoda Ragam class (exhaust type placement), LMV like radome (Singapore LMV), hull mounted sonar. This clearly an ASW corvettes, i am suspect in range of 1400-1600 tonnes class(maybe slightly smaller) . Maybe to replace Parchim class
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We are speedy learners, no doubt.. now for the interesting part..
the pic is from PT. PAL?
any tech data regarding the design?
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yup, check out their twitter account..
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Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines To Hunt Down Islamic State In Joint Ground Patrols
June 9, 2018 BenarNews 0 Comments
By BenarNews
By Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata
Indonesia will deploy soldiers to hunt down pro-Islamic State militants for the first time in a joint ground patrol with Malaysia and the Philippines, Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu said Friday.
Ryamizard first divulged the joint ground patrol aimed at curbing the spread of IS in the region during a speech last weekend at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a meeting in Singapore attended by Southeast Asian and other world leaders.
He said the three neighboring nations had already established trilateral air and maritime patrols in the Sulu Sea but would step up and elevate their cooperation through the joint operation of land forces on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao “two months from now.”
“The aim of this joint operation is to locate ISIS in the southern Philippines and stop it from spreading,” he said, using the other acronym for IS.
On Friday, Ryamizard confirmed that the expansion of the existing trilateral patrol mechanism would take place. He said Malaysia and the Philippines had agreed.
“I planned it. The implementation is after Eid,” he told reporters after a ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Jakarta.
At a bilateral meeting with his Malaysian counterpart Mohamad Sabu on June 9 in Singapore, Ryamizard said the training exercise “at a company level” would focus on “anti-guerrilla warfare, urban warfare and how to tackle snipers.”
A company is a military unit that usually consists of 80 to 150 soldiers and often commanded by a major or a captain.
Ryamizard told Mohamad that the militants in southern Philippines were skilled marksmen and it was necessary for the three countries to equip their forces with better rifles.
The three nations began trilateral patrols in June last year after pro-IS militants launched a siege in the southern Philippine city of Marawi. Five months of vicious fighting ended in October and killed at least 1,200 people, mostly militants, including the acknowledged Philippine IS leader Isnilon Hapilon.
The Marawi fighting emboldened other Southeast Asian terror cells aligned with the Syria- and Iraq-based IS, according to analysts.
Among the 31,500 foreign fighters who had joined IS in Syria, about 800 came from Asia, including 400 from Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country, Ryamizard said on June 2, citing intelligence data from his government.
Ryamizard talked about the joint plans to curb the spread of IS in the southern Philippines as his own country grappled with a string of terror attack in recent weeks, including bombings that targeted three churches and killed 51 people, including 13 civilians, seven police and 31 suspects.
Indonesia, a nation of 262 million people, faces a resurgence of extremist attacks as security analysts warned that dozens of its citizens would return home after fighting for IS in the Middle East.
“Maritime patrols have been already implemented, the air patrols too, even though mostly through drones, but it is the same. But not the land patrols yet, even though the combined land forces exercise is very important,” Ryamizard said.
Malaysia’s Sabah state is a short boat ride from islands in the Philippines’ Mindanao region, where pro-IS Muslim guerrillas and other armed Muslim groups operate. The waters between the two countries are extremely porous and analysts said the three nations shared coastal borders that have long been used for smuggling routes.
To involve elite forces
Indonesia’s Defense Ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. Totok Sugiharto, told BenarNews that the exercise would involve the three forces from the Indonesian National Army (TNI).
“This is also a continuation of the collaboration of the intelligence sharing strategy ‘Our Eyes’ which was launched earlier,” he said, referring to sub-regional cooperation with Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand launched earlier this year in Bali, Indonesia.
Khairul Fahmi, a military observer from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), told BenarNews the joint ground patrol exercises are as the three neighbors face militant groups with similar characteristics.
“There is a need to increase and standardize ability to paralyze these groups,” he said.
http://www.eurasiareview.com/090620...t-down-islamic-state-in-joint-ground-patrols/
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By BenarNews
By Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata
Indonesia will deploy soldiers to hunt down pro-Islamic State militants for the first time in a joint ground patrol with Malaysia and the Philippines, Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu said Friday.
Ryamizard first divulged the joint ground patrol aimed at curbing the spread of IS in the region during a speech last weekend at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a meeting in Singapore attended by Southeast Asian and other world leaders.
He said the three neighboring nations had already established trilateral air and maritime patrols in the Sulu Sea but would step up and elevate their cooperation through the joint operation of land forces on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao “two months from now.”
“The aim of this joint operation is to locate ISIS in the southern Philippines and stop it from spreading,” he said, using the other acronym for IS.
On Friday, Ryamizard confirmed that the expansion of the existing trilateral patrol mechanism would take place. He said Malaysia and the Philippines had agreed.
“I planned it. The implementation is after Eid,” he told reporters after a ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Jakarta.
At a bilateral meeting with his Malaysian counterpart Mohamad Sabu on June 9 in Singapore, Ryamizard said the training exercise “at a company level” would focus on “anti-guerrilla warfare, urban warfare and how to tackle snipers.”
A company is a military unit that usually consists of 80 to 150 soldiers and often commanded by a major or a captain.
Ryamizard told Mohamad that the militants in southern Philippines were skilled marksmen and it was necessary for the three countries to equip their forces with better rifles.
The three nations began trilateral patrols in June last year after pro-IS militants launched a siege in the southern Philippine city of Marawi. Five months of vicious fighting ended in October and killed at least 1,200 people, mostly militants, including the acknowledged Philippine IS leader Isnilon Hapilon.
The Marawi fighting emboldened other Southeast Asian terror cells aligned with the Syria- and Iraq-based IS, according to analysts.
Among the 31,500 foreign fighters who had joined IS in Syria, about 800 came from Asia, including 400 from Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country, Ryamizard said on June 2, citing intelligence data from his government.
Ryamizard talked about the joint plans to curb the spread of IS in the southern Philippines as his own country grappled with a string of terror attack in recent weeks, including bombings that targeted three churches and killed 51 people, including 13 civilians, seven police and 31 suspects.
Indonesia, a nation of 262 million people, faces a resurgence of extremist attacks as security analysts warned that dozens of its citizens would return home after fighting for IS in the Middle East.
“Maritime patrols have been already implemented, the air patrols too, even though mostly through drones, but it is the same. But not the land patrols yet, even though the combined land forces exercise is very important,” Ryamizard said.
Malaysia’s Sabah state is a short boat ride from islands in the Philippines’ Mindanao region, where pro-IS Muslim guerrillas and other armed Muslim groups operate. The waters between the two countries are extremely porous and analysts said the three nations shared coastal borders that have long been used for smuggling routes.
To involve elite forces
Indonesia’s Defense Ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. Totok Sugiharto, told BenarNews that the exercise would involve the three forces from the Indonesian National Army (TNI).
“This is also a continuation of the collaboration of the intelligence sharing strategy ‘Our Eyes’ which was launched earlier,” he said, referring to sub-regional cooperation with Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand launched earlier this year in Bali, Indonesia.
Khairul Fahmi, a military observer from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), told BenarNews the joint ground patrol exercises are as the three neighbors face militant groups with similar characteristics.
“There is a need to increase and standardize ability to paralyze these groups,” he said.
http://www.eurasiareview.com/090620...t-down-islamic-state-in-joint-ground-patrols/
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We are speedy learners, no doubt.. now for the interesting part..
LOA 75 meters ?
Beam 10 meters ?
Draught 6 meters ?
Displacement 900 - 1000 tons ?
Arround usd 100 - 115 million per unit with full sensors and full armament for ASW corvettes ?
Edisi Sok Tahu Gue....
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For the tonnage is likely around 1600 - 1800 long tonnes, or about 83 - 90 meters..
It's good to see PAL has improvised to this OPV design concept, hope they got the contracts.
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Nice.We are speedy learners, no doubt.. now for the interesting part..
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yup parchim replacement displacement around 1500ton twice as parchim
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Two Vietnamese boats caught in Natuna waters
Minggu, 10 Juni 2018 00:09 WIB - 2 Views
Reporter: Nikolas Panama
Fishing boat (ANTARA PHOTO/M N Kawakan)
Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands, (ANTARA News) - Two Vietnamese boats suspected of illegally fishing in Natuna have been seized by the Indonesian Navy.
The captain of Bung Tomo-357 navy ship, Col Amrin, told Antara here on Saturday the two Vietnamese ships were seized following a chase when the Navy spotted three ships illegally entering Indonesian waters, around 1.40 pm on Wednesday.
"While patrolling we saw three foreign fishing boats and we tried to drive them away and later caught two of them," he said.
Amrin said he ordered his men to check the two boats -- BV5743TS 40 GT with Tung as its skipper and ten crew and BV0627TS 40 GT with Pung as its skipper and three crewmen on board -- but found no fish. He said he believed the intruders had come for fishing because they were throwing their nets into the water when they were caught.
"The boats carried no documents," he added.
Amrin said the seizure of the foreign boats showed the commitment of the Western Fleet Command to the eradication of illegal activities in the sea.
(H-YH/INE)
Editor: Suharto
COPYRIGHT © ANTARA 2018
A ‘Little Bit of a Nut Case’ Who’s Taking On China
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Susi Pudjiastuti, the maritime affairs and fisheries minister of Indonesia, is taking on illegal fishing boats, even those from China.CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times
By Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono
“This is what I can do if the Chinese try to play tricks on me,” said Ms. Pudjiastuti, the maritime affairs and fisheries minister of Indonesia. “I can smile very nicely and then I can use my high heel.”
“Very sharp,” she added, popping the piece of fish into her mouth.
Suffice it to say that Ms. Pudjiastuti is not a conventional Indonesian woman, much less a conventional cabinet minister. She chain smokes, although Indonesia’s health minister — one of eight women in the cabinet of President Joko Widodo — has warned her that a public figure should not be seen lighting up.
Ms. Pudjiastuti likes her coffee black and her alcohol only in the form of champagne. “My family thinks I am a little bit of a nut case,” she said.
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Perhaps it takes a little bit of a nut case to challenge Beijing, going so far as to seize Chinese fishing boats poaching in Indonesian waters. She has created a lot of enemies along the way, at home as well as abroad, but she says her success can be measured by the improved health of Indonesia’s fishing grounds, and she is not about to back down.
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Ms. Pudjiastuti during Indonesian Fashion Week in Jakarta in March. She had her kebaya, a traditional blouse, sewn so tightly that the stitches tore when she tried to sit down.CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times
With more than 13,000 islands, Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic nation, yet its maritime sovereignty had long been neglected. When she was appointed in 2014, Ms. Pudjiastuti, a seafood and aviation magnate who never finished high school, inherited a ministry that was in danger of being eliminated. But she has transformed her portfolio, declaring waron foreign fishing boats that had encroached on territorial waters and threatened some of the world’s most biodiverse seas.
Not all of the offenders have been from China. Boats from other Southeast Asian nations stray into Indonesia’s waters as well, costing the country at least $1 billion a year in lost resources, the United Nations has reported. Ms. Pudjiastuti has not relied on subtlety: Under her aegis, hundreds of impounded foreign vessels have been blown up.
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But it is Ms. Pudjiastuti’s entanglements with the Chinese that have created the greatest uproar, while also making her an unlikely heroine for those calling for international defiance of Beijing’s muscular foreign policy.
Indonesia is not an official claimant to contested territory in the South China Sea, where Beijing is now landing bombers on disputed islets. But the nine-dash line that China uses on maps to demarcate the swath of the South China Sea it considers its own nevertheless extends into waters that lap up against Indonesian islands.
That is where the fish — and Ms. Pudjiastuti — come in.
“I’m not the military, I’m not the foreign minister,” she said. “The Chinese cannot really get angry at me because all I’m talking about is fish.”
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Ms. Pudjiastuti has made a name for herself, and some enemies, by seizing illegal fishing boats and blowing them up.CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times
Another smile, another bite of lunch, this time doused in an incendiary sauce Ms. Pudjiastuti made from part of a 65-pound haul of chiles she bought during a recent trip to eastern Indonesia.
In June 2016, an Indonesian warship towed away a Chinese fishing boat that had been caught near the Natunas, Indonesian islands located in the southernmost reaches of the South China Sea. An attempt earlier that year to bring in another Chinese boat had been foiled when the Chinese Coast Guard intervened, severing the towing line connecting the impounded vessel to an Indonesian patrol boat.
Both seizures took place in waters that are well within Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone, as defined by international maritime law. But the Chinese Foreign Ministry protested and referred to the seas as China’s “traditional fishing grounds.”
Ms. Pudjiastuti was not impressed. “The Indonesians sailed all the way to Madagascar in ancient times,” she said. “Should we claim the entire Indian Ocean as our ‘traditional fishing grounds’?”
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Since Ms. Pudjiastuti took over, most of the 10,000 foreign fishing boats that once poached in Indonesian waters have disappeared. Fishing stocks more than doubled from 2013 to 2017, according to government statistics.
Image
Ms. Pudjiastuti during visiting one of her ministries’ projects, in Pangandaran. A phoenix tattooed on her right shin prompted one official to say it made her look like a “thug.”CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times
But earlier this year, Indonesia’s vice president, Jusuf Kalla, said that enough was enough. Blowing up boats may have made Ms. Pudjiastuti the most beloved Indonesian cabinet minister, but the shock tactics were scaring off foreign investors. The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce echoed his complaint.
Even Indonesia’s 2.4 million-strong fishing community was up in arms, protesting Ms. Pudjiastuti’s efforts to halt popular but environmentally destructive practices like deep trawling and dynamite fishing.
ADVERTISEMENT
The fisheries minister is unsympathetic. “When I started off in the seafood business, the fish were this big,” she said, widening her arms. “Then everything was small. The fish were gone, overfished, and the government didn’t care.”
In the decade before she took over, she says, the number of fishing households in Indonesia plunged by 45 percent.
Ms. Pudjiastuti, the ultimate self-made woman, is not about to go down without a fight. She was born in a fishing town on the southern coast of Java, Indonesia’s most densely populated island. She dropped out of high school. There was a first marriage and a child. There was a second marriage and a child. There was a third liaison and a child.
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“I am happy when I am out at sea,” said Ms. Pudjiastuti, who is an accomplished paddleboarder.CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times
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There was a night of drinking in which she got a phoenix tattooed on her right shin; the tattoo remains, even if the men who fathered her children do not. (John Kerry, when he was secretary of state, once jokingly promised to go to Indonesia if Ms. Pudjiastuti could arrange for him to get a similar tattoo.)
Ms. Pudjiastuti survived by driving a truck transporting frogs and bird’s nests. Then she moved into the seafood business — lobster to Japan, king prawns to Hong Kong — which spawned an aviation company that started off transporting crustaceans and expanded to carrying people.
Today, Susi Air boasts a fleet of 50 light aircraft. When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastated Aceh in western Indonesia, killing around 170,000 people, Ms. Pudjiastuti dispatched planes filled with relief supplies.
These days, many Muslim women in Indonesia have abandoned the kebaya, the lacy, body-hugging blouse paired with a sarong that is Indonesia’s national dress for women, for looser-fitting garments. Not Ms. Pudjiastuti. Modeling during Indonesian Fashion Week earlier this year, she had her kebaya sewn so tightly that the stitches tore when she tried to sit down. The dress was hemmed up again but had to be undone when Ms. Pudjiastuti realized she needed to go to the bathroom. Then the tailor went to work a third time.
In the political realm, she remains a polarizing figure. Fahri Hamzah, the deputy speaker of Indonesia’s lower house of Parliament, suggested that Ms. Pudjiastuti’s tattoo made her “a thug.”
Supporters have raised Ms. Pudjiastuti’s name as a possible vice-presidential running mate to Mr. Widodo, who is up for re-election next year, despite a constitutional clause that limits the nation’s top two posts to candidates with a high-school degree. Ms. Pudjiastuti demurred when asked to comment on the vice-presidential rumors.
Whenever she can, she returns to the sea. Earlier this year, Ms. Pudjiastuti and one of her housekeepers, Nurmadia Heremba, traveled to Pangandaran, the mangrove-fronted town where she grew up. It was a holiday weekend, and she decompressed by steering a paddleboard out to sea.
The current was strong but after 90 minutes of hard rowing Ms. Pudjiastuti relaxed on her paddleboard with a smoke and a hot drink. The setting sun glowed crimson over the Indian Ocean. “Screw Jakarta,” Ms. Pudjiastuti said. “I am happy when I am out at sea.”
A version of this article appears in print on June 9, 2018, on Page A10 of the New York edition with the headline: Indonesian Cabinet Minister Doesn’t Mind Making Enemies. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/world/asia/indonesia-fishing-boats-china-poaching.html
Minggu, 10 Juni 2018 00:09 WIB - 2 Views
Reporter: Nikolas Panama
Fishing boat (ANTARA PHOTO/M N Kawakan)
Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands, (ANTARA News) - Two Vietnamese boats suspected of illegally fishing in Natuna have been seized by the Indonesian Navy.
The captain of Bung Tomo-357 navy ship, Col Amrin, told Antara here on Saturday the two Vietnamese ships were seized following a chase when the Navy spotted three ships illegally entering Indonesian waters, around 1.40 pm on Wednesday.
"While patrolling we saw three foreign fishing boats and we tried to drive them away and later caught two of them," he said.
Amrin said he ordered his men to check the two boats -- BV5743TS 40 GT with Tung as its skipper and ten crew and BV0627TS 40 GT with Pung as its skipper and three crewmen on board -- but found no fish. He said he believed the intruders had come for fishing because they were throwing their nets into the water when they were caught.
"The boats carried no documents," he added.
Amrin said the seizure of the foreign boats showed the commitment of the Western Fleet Command to the eradication of illegal activities in the sea.
(H-YH/INE)
Editor: Suharto
COPYRIGHT © ANTARA 2018
A ‘Little Bit of a Nut Case’ Who’s Taking On China
Image
Susi Pudjiastuti, the maritime affairs and fisheries minister of Indonesia, is taking on illegal fishing boats, even those from China.CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times
By Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono
- June 8, 2018
“This is what I can do if the Chinese try to play tricks on me,” said Ms. Pudjiastuti, the maritime affairs and fisheries minister of Indonesia. “I can smile very nicely and then I can use my high heel.”
“Very sharp,” she added, popping the piece of fish into her mouth.
Suffice it to say that Ms. Pudjiastuti is not a conventional Indonesian woman, much less a conventional cabinet minister. She chain smokes, although Indonesia’s health minister — one of eight women in the cabinet of President Joko Widodo — has warned her that a public figure should not be seen lighting up.
Ms. Pudjiastuti likes her coffee black and her alcohol only in the form of champagne. “My family thinks I am a little bit of a nut case,” she said.
ADVERTISEMENT
Perhaps it takes a little bit of a nut case to challenge Beijing, going so far as to seize Chinese fishing boats poaching in Indonesian waters. She has created a lot of enemies along the way, at home as well as abroad, but she says her success can be measured by the improved health of Indonesia’s fishing grounds, and she is not about to back down.
Image
Ms. Pudjiastuti during Indonesian Fashion Week in Jakarta in March. She had her kebaya, a traditional blouse, sewn so tightly that the stitches tore when she tried to sit down.CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times
With more than 13,000 islands, Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic nation, yet its maritime sovereignty had long been neglected. When she was appointed in 2014, Ms. Pudjiastuti, a seafood and aviation magnate who never finished high school, inherited a ministry that was in danger of being eliminated. But she has transformed her portfolio, declaring waron foreign fishing boats that had encroached on territorial waters and threatened some of the world’s most biodiverse seas.
Not all of the offenders have been from China. Boats from other Southeast Asian nations stray into Indonesia’s waters as well, costing the country at least $1 billion a year in lost resources, the United Nations has reported. Ms. Pudjiastuti has not relied on subtlety: Under her aegis, hundreds of impounded foreign vessels have been blown up.
ADVERTISEMENT
But it is Ms. Pudjiastuti’s entanglements with the Chinese that have created the greatest uproar, while also making her an unlikely heroine for those calling for international defiance of Beijing’s muscular foreign policy.
Indonesia is not an official claimant to contested territory in the South China Sea, where Beijing is now landing bombers on disputed islets. But the nine-dash line that China uses on maps to demarcate the swath of the South China Sea it considers its own nevertheless extends into waters that lap up against Indonesian islands.
That is where the fish — and Ms. Pudjiastuti — come in.
“I’m not the military, I’m not the foreign minister,” she said. “The Chinese cannot really get angry at me because all I’m talking about is fish.”
Image
Ms. Pudjiastuti has made a name for herself, and some enemies, by seizing illegal fishing boats and blowing them up.CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times
Another smile, another bite of lunch, this time doused in an incendiary sauce Ms. Pudjiastuti made from part of a 65-pound haul of chiles she bought during a recent trip to eastern Indonesia.
In June 2016, an Indonesian warship towed away a Chinese fishing boat that had been caught near the Natunas, Indonesian islands located in the southernmost reaches of the South China Sea. An attempt earlier that year to bring in another Chinese boat had been foiled when the Chinese Coast Guard intervened, severing the towing line connecting the impounded vessel to an Indonesian patrol boat.
Both seizures took place in waters that are well within Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone, as defined by international maritime law. But the Chinese Foreign Ministry protested and referred to the seas as China’s “traditional fishing grounds.”
Ms. Pudjiastuti was not impressed. “The Indonesians sailed all the way to Madagascar in ancient times,” she said. “Should we claim the entire Indian Ocean as our ‘traditional fishing grounds’?”
ADVERTISEMENT
Since Ms. Pudjiastuti took over, most of the 10,000 foreign fishing boats that once poached in Indonesian waters have disappeared. Fishing stocks more than doubled from 2013 to 2017, according to government statistics.
Image
Ms. Pudjiastuti during visiting one of her ministries’ projects, in Pangandaran. A phoenix tattooed on her right shin prompted one official to say it made her look like a “thug.”CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times
But earlier this year, Indonesia’s vice president, Jusuf Kalla, said that enough was enough. Blowing up boats may have made Ms. Pudjiastuti the most beloved Indonesian cabinet minister, but the shock tactics were scaring off foreign investors. The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce echoed his complaint.
Even Indonesia’s 2.4 million-strong fishing community was up in arms, protesting Ms. Pudjiastuti’s efforts to halt popular but environmentally destructive practices like deep trawling and dynamite fishing.
ADVERTISEMENT
The fisheries minister is unsympathetic. “When I started off in the seafood business, the fish were this big,” she said, widening her arms. “Then everything was small. The fish were gone, overfished, and the government didn’t care.”
In the decade before she took over, she says, the number of fishing households in Indonesia plunged by 45 percent.
Ms. Pudjiastuti, the ultimate self-made woman, is not about to go down without a fight. She was born in a fishing town on the southern coast of Java, Indonesia’s most densely populated island. She dropped out of high school. There was a first marriage and a child. There was a second marriage and a child. There was a third liaison and a child.
Image
“I am happy when I am out at sea,” said Ms. Pudjiastuti, who is an accomplished paddleboarder.CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times
ADVERTISEMENT
There was a night of drinking in which she got a phoenix tattooed on her right shin; the tattoo remains, even if the men who fathered her children do not. (John Kerry, when he was secretary of state, once jokingly promised to go to Indonesia if Ms. Pudjiastuti could arrange for him to get a similar tattoo.)
Ms. Pudjiastuti survived by driving a truck transporting frogs and bird’s nests. Then she moved into the seafood business — lobster to Japan, king prawns to Hong Kong — which spawned an aviation company that started off transporting crustaceans and expanded to carrying people.
Today, Susi Air boasts a fleet of 50 light aircraft. When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastated Aceh in western Indonesia, killing around 170,000 people, Ms. Pudjiastuti dispatched planes filled with relief supplies.
These days, many Muslim women in Indonesia have abandoned the kebaya, the lacy, body-hugging blouse paired with a sarong that is Indonesia’s national dress for women, for looser-fitting garments. Not Ms. Pudjiastuti. Modeling during Indonesian Fashion Week earlier this year, she had her kebaya sewn so tightly that the stitches tore when she tried to sit down. The dress was hemmed up again but had to be undone when Ms. Pudjiastuti realized she needed to go to the bathroom. Then the tailor went to work a third time.
In the political realm, she remains a polarizing figure. Fahri Hamzah, the deputy speaker of Indonesia’s lower house of Parliament, suggested that Ms. Pudjiastuti’s tattoo made her “a thug.”
Supporters have raised Ms. Pudjiastuti’s name as a possible vice-presidential running mate to Mr. Widodo, who is up for re-election next year, despite a constitutional clause that limits the nation’s top two posts to candidates with a high-school degree. Ms. Pudjiastuti demurred when asked to comment on the vice-presidential rumors.
Whenever she can, she returns to the sea. Earlier this year, Ms. Pudjiastuti and one of her housekeepers, Nurmadia Heremba, traveled to Pangandaran, the mangrove-fronted town where she grew up. It was a holiday weekend, and she decompressed by steering a paddleboard out to sea.
The current was strong but after 90 minutes of hard rowing Ms. Pudjiastuti relaxed on her paddleboard with a smoke and a hot drink. The setting sun glowed crimson over the Indian Ocean. “Screw Jakarta,” Ms. Pudjiastuti said. “I am happy when I am out at sea.”
A version of this article appears in print on June 9, 2018, on Page A10 of the New York edition with the headline: Indonesian Cabinet Minister Doesn’t Mind Making Enemies. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/world/asia/indonesia-fishing-boats-china-poaching.html
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Lalai Bayar Sewa Satelit, Indonesia Didenda Rp 278 Miliar
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https://inet.detik.com/telecommunic...-sewa-satelit-indonesia-didenda-rp-278-miliar
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Lalai Bayar Sewa Satelit, Indonesia Didenda Rp 278 Miliar
Muhamad Imron Rosyadi - detikInet
https://inet.detik.com/telecommunic...-sewa-satelit-indonesia-didenda-rp-278-miliar
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