Indonesia Maritime defence and security issue

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Indonesia: Unidentified vessel fires on fishing trawler near Anambas Island 22 January
A Taiwan-flagged fishing trawler was approached and fired upon by an unknown vessel at 2218 hrs local time some 57 nm north-northeast of Anambas Island. The crew took evasive manoeuvres and after an hour the craft stopped its pursuit of the trawler. No one was injured by the gunfire and the vessel was able to continue its journey.

if they were fired without warning and the location was near anambas island.... then the best possibilities is that the were attack by one of the thailand fishing industries mafias... it happen several time before around that area. they basically scared any local trawler away by doing the exact same thing.
few years ago some of them even manage to flee from being captured by attacking the navy's personals that caught them and took hostage another.

 

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The 3rd, 60 meter marine and fishery patrol vessel, ORCA 003 was launched 22 January 2016

Launching of 4 units, 32 meter marine and fishery patrol vessels, 17 December 2015

Exclusive video, 3 illegal fishing boats blown up in Batam, 10 November 2015

 

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Thai seafood industry crackdown sparks arrests

• 2 February 2016
• From the section Asia

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Image caption Thailand is the world's third-largest seafood exporter
More than 100 people have been arrested in a crackdown on abuses in Thailand's multi-billion dollar seafood industry, officials say.

Last April the European Union threatened to boycott the industry unless it tackled illegal fishing and allegations of human trafficking.

On Monday, police said a taskforce set up since had investigated 36 cases and also rescued 130 trafficking victims.

Thailand is the world's third largest exporter of seafood.

Human rights groups have long highlighted abuses in the Thai industry, saying it is reliant on illegal fishing practices and overfishing, and involves trafficked workers from neighbouring countries who, they say, work in conditions akin to slavery.

Deputy National Police Chief Thammasak Witcharaya said that in the 16 months prior to the task force being set up only 15 cases were investigated, insisting that the crackdown had intensified.

He added that nearly all of the 102 suspects arrested were prosecuted and 36 sent to prison.

Analysis: Jonathan Head, BBC News, Bangkok

The problems in Thailand's seafood industry are complex and will not be solved quickly even with determined government effort.

There is the challenge of properly licensing thousands of fishing boats and reducing the fleet to a more sustainable size, but also of regulating a fragmented processing industry, one of the word's biggest, where endemic labour abuses exist.

Then there is the illegal but very profitable business of trafficking migrants through Thailand.

While these arrests are an improvement on previous years, it must be viewed in that context; it is progress, but limited.

The revelation last November that even a global brand as big as Nestle had discovered evidence of slave-like conditions in parts of its Thai supply chain is an indication of how deep-rooted the problem is.

The Thai military government, desperate to improve its ranking in the US annual trafficking report and to avoid an EU ban, seems willing to act. The real test will be the prosecution of those who are running illegal businesses.

Last year the inclusion of a senior military general among 88 people charged with trafficking was seen as a breakthrough, but Thai judicial procedures are slow.

Most damaging was when the police general who had led the anti-trafficking drive sought asylum in Australia in November. He claimed his superiors actually obstructed his work, and that a forced transfer to southern Thailand would have put his life at risk from trafficking networks.

The EU's warning to Thailand last April said it would block seafood imports unless Thailand implemented a tailor-made action plan within six months. About 15% of Thailand's seafood exports are destined for the EU.

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Image caption Thailand says has insisted it will be able to tackle the abuses
The US also has Thailand on a blacklist for failing to do enough about what it called "persistent" labour abuses in the seafood sector.

Thai authorities have consistently said they are tackling the abuses and are confident they can address international concerns.

Rights groups have said that fishermen from Cambodia and Myanmar - also known as Burma - are trafficked and forced to work on the boats, and also highlighted the use of children working in the industry.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35457036

 

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Indonesia and US join forces to police the seas
A new strategic partnership to improve marine law enforcement and combat illegal fishing in Indonesia builds on existing progress



The Indonesian Navy blows up a foreign fishing vessel caught fishing illegally at Lemukutan Island, Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photograph: STR/EPA
Johnny Langenheim

Wednesday 3 February 2016 08.42 GMT Last modified on Wednesday 3 February 2016 09.50 GMT

President Joko Widodo’s plan to establish Indonesia as a ‘global maritime axis’ took a step forward last week as US ambassador Robert Blake announced a partnership programme to help improve marine law enforcement and sustainable fisheries management in the world’s largest archipelagic nation.

According to the World Bank, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUUF) costs an estimated $20 billion in lost revenue annually. Around a quarter of these losses occur in Indonesia, whose fishing industry is second only to China in size.

2015 saw Indonesia launch a high profile ‘war’ on IUUF, as charismatic new Marine Affairs & Fisheries minister, Susi Pudjiastuti set about sending a strong message to Indonesia’s neighbours, by very publicly blowing up vessels caught fishing illegally and arresting their crews. Since she took office in October 2014, 157 boats have been seized and 113 sunk, while 15 companies have lost their business permits. Pudjiastuti has also banned transshipment at sea and restricted the area open to commercial fishing.

The hard line approach has proved popular with the Indonesian public and the media, but it’s more than just clever PR. Pudjiastuti – a businesswoman whose divorcee status, tattoos and smoking habit single her out from many of her cabinet colleagues – is achieving tangible progress. In the last quarter of 2015, Indonesia’s fisheries sector grew by 8.37%, almost double the country’s overall economic growth in the same period.

The increased cooperation between Indonesia and the US follows President Widodo’s visit to Washington in October last year, when he and President Obama signed a Maritime Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve security, economic viability and conservation within the sector.

Conservation is a crucial part of the equation in a country that lies at the heart of the Coral Triangle bioregion, home to 60% of the world’s reef-building corals – vital habitats and spawning grounds for commercially important fish species. According to the World Bank, fully two-thirds of Indonesia’s reefs are currently threatened by overfishing.

In December 2015, the US government’s development agency USAID committed $33 million over five years to help protect marine resources and improve the sustainability of Indonesia’s fishing industry. Over the last decade or so, the overall area of the country’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has more than tripled to 157,000 sq km and is intended to reach 200,000 sq km by 2020.

All of this is positive news for one of the world’s biggest fisheries, but establishing MPAs is only half the story of course. Surveys suggest that many of Indonesia’s marine parks are lacking the robust management and enforcement that they need. US environmental charity Conservation International recently carried out an in depth assessment of the Natuna Islands, a remote archipelago west of Borneo. Scientists were shocked to discover that conditions were actually worse within the MPA than outside it.

The indications are that Indonesia will continue its zero-tolerance policy on IUUF in 2016, even bypassing the sometimes lengthy judicial process and allowing coast guard and navy to sink trespassing vessels immediately. So far, the policies haven’t led to the diplomatic problems that many predicted and they should in theory reduce pressure on the all-important MPAs.

But the parks themselves need to be managed in a dynamic, collaborative way, engaging local people in enterprises like ecotourism, sustainable aquaculture, conservation and enforcement. Making marine parks economically viable gives communities a real stake in their success.

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...orces-to-combat-illegal-fishing-protect-reefs

 

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Navy seized 1 illegal fishing vessel from Malaysia, with 4 Myanmarese crews (10/2/2016)

TNI AL Tangkap Kapal Malaysia Pencuri Ik.. -1309943::Okezone News
TNI AL Amankan Kapal "Illegal Fishing" Berbendera Malaysia - Kompas.com

 

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23 illegal fishing boats planned to be blown up on 22 February 2016.

The list:

1. KM BV 9619 TS (85GT) from Vietnam
2. KM BV 8281 TS (90GT) from Vietnam
3. KM BV 9947 TS (85GT) from Vietnam
4. KM BV 7872 TS (90GT) from Vietnam
5. KM KG 93525 TS (139GT) from Vietnam
6. KM KG 91490 TS (139 GT) from Vietnam
7. KM KG 93877 TS (139 GT) from Vietnam
8. KM KG 93577 TS (139GT) from Vietnam
9. KM Altri 88 from Filipina
10. KM Badit (1GT) from Indonesia
11. KM Pertiwi 01 (4GT) from Indonesia
12. KM Pison 04 (2GT) from Indonesia
13. KM Dewa Ruci (2GT) from Indonesia
14. KM Solavide (2GT) from Indonesia
15. KM Zoultan from Filipina
16. KM Starcki 10 (742GT) from Indonesia
17. SLFA 2915 (83GT) from Malaysia
18. PKFB 376 (63GT) from Malaysia
19. KHF 451 (62GT) from Malaysia
20. PSF 2461 (53GT) from Malaysia
21. PPF 164 (91,04GT) from Malaysia
22. PPF 593 (48GT) from Malaysia
23. PKFA 8482 (48GT) from Malaysia

Susi Akan Nge-Bom 23 Kapal Pencuri Ikan, Ini Daftarnya

 

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Seven Malaysian fishing vessels detained in Malacca Strait

Four Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry’s fisheries and marine resource surveillance unit patrol boats have detained seven Malaysian-flagged fishing vessels for allegedly trawling for fish in Indonesian territory, the Malacca Strait.

All crew on the fishing vessels are alleged to be Indonesian citizens who had been illegally employed by Malaysian businessmen to fish without permits in Indonesian waters.

The ministry’s fisheries and marine resource surveillance unit head Akhmadon said that it was not uncommon for Malaysian companies to employ Indonesian people, without providing them with legal work documents, to carry out illegal fishing activities in Indonesian waters.

“Not only are they fishing in our territories illegally, they have also used fishing vessels equipped with trawls, which are prohibited as they are destructive to the local marine environment,” Akhmadon told thejakartapost.com on Sunday.

The ministry said the seven Malaysian vessels were detained on Feb.1, along with the 36 crew members, all Indonesians.

The captain of fishing vessel KM SLFA 2915, Indra, 34, a resident of Tanjung Balai Asahan, North Sumatra, said that, by using a tourist passport, he entered Malaysia to work as a construction worker two years ago. His experience as a seaman had eventually led Indra to work for a fishing company in Negeri Perak, Malaysia.

“In Asahan, only a few fishing companies were still operating. That’s why I was okay to work as a fisherman in Malaysia, as a captain of a fishing vessel. Besides, working in Malaysia, I was able to get quite a high income,” said Indra, claiming that as a captain he was paid RM 100 (US$24.10) per day.

A crew member of a fishing vessel, he added, could get RM 70 per day, far higher than in Indonesia where a daily salary is a mere Rp 50,000 ($3.71) per day.

Indra said that he and the 35 other fishermen were fully aware that they were in Indonesian territories but that they kept fishing in the area, no matter what, due to the high catch potential.

Berton, another of the arrested crew members, also said that the income he could receive from working for a Malaysian fishing company was far higher than what he would receive working for an Indonesian company.

“Thus, we decided to work for Malaysian companies and fish in Indonesian territories. Higher income was the only reason for us to do this,” said Berton.

Akhmadon said the seven Malaysian fishing vessels had been operating in waters around the Malacca Strait for some time before they were caught by the ministry’s sea patrols. They would be charged with Law No.31/2004 on Fisheries which carries a penalty of five years in prison and Rp 2 billion fines, he went on.

“Once there is a final court ruling, we will sink all of those vessels, while the suspects, who are all Indonesians, will be repatriated to their home towns,” said Akhmadon. (ebf)

Seven Malaysian fishing vessels detained in Malacca Strait | The Jakarta Post

 

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Indonesian Navy will destroy 31 illegal fishing vessels

The Indonesian Navy to sink as many as 31 ships were convicted of illegal fishing in Indonesian seas. Head of Information Department of the Navy, Admiral M Zainudin detailing that of 31 vessels, five of which are catching the Navy. While 26 other foreign vessels are vessels catch the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. The vessels are scheduled to be drowned in different places simultaneously.

Indonesia's Navy Will Destroy 31 Foreign Ship that Thieves Fish

 

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One illegal fishing boat from Malaysia with 4 Thailand crews seized by water police in Aceh

Metrotvnews.com, Langsa: Sebuah kapal asing asal Malaysia disandarkan di Pelabuhan Kuala Langsa, Langsa, Aceh, Rabu (17/2/2016). Kapal dengan nomor lambung PKFB 1035 GT 56 dan empat awak kapal asal Thailand tersebut berhasil diamankan Direktorat Polisi Perairan (Ditpolair) saat melakukan patroli dengan kapal lory 3018 di perairan laut Aceh pada Selasa (16/2/2016). Barang bukti kapal dan ikan sekitar 2 ton serta dua alat tangkap trawl (pukat harimau) diamankan di Satpolair Langsa. ANTARA/Syifa Yulinnas

 

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450GT illegal fishing vessel using Seychelles flag with 27 crews (2 Taiwanese, 15 Pilipines, 7 Indonesian and 4 Vietnamese) seized by the navy around Sabang water.

Dari hasil pemeriksaan awal diketahui kapal tersebut bernama FV. Jiin Horng No . 106 / 450 GT dengan pemilik Jin Horng Ocean Enterprice Co. Ltd., Republik Of Seychelles. Kapal spesialis penangkap ikan tuna ini dinakhodai oleh Chen Chin-Li. Saat ditangkap kapal tersebut diketahui memuat 183.400 Kg ikan.

Kapal Pencuri Ikan Asing Ditangkap TNI AL di Perairan Sabang - Pos Belitung

 

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Indonesia scuttles 30 vessels in anti-illegal fishing program today

Indonesia's Anti-Illegal Fishing Task Force, or Satgas 115, scuttled 30 vessels in five separate locations on Monday (22/02), for poaching in the country's rich oceans.

Tyas Budiman, fisheries resources director of the Maritime and Fisheries Ministry's monitoring affairs directorate general, said the action took place separately in Pontianak, West Kalimantan; Bitung, North Sulawesi; Riau Island's Batam; Tahuna in North Sulawesi; and Belawan, North Sumatra.

“The scuttling ceremony was directly led by Maritime and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti as the commander of Satgas 115 via live streaming from the ministry's office in Jakarta,” Tyas said in a statement on Monday, adding that this was the first of such events this year.

Sepuluh kapal nelayan asing sudah berada di laut Batam untuk ditenggelamkan secara serentak bersama 20 kapal lainnya yang ada di Indonesia, Senin (22/2/2016).

Sejumlah kapal nelayan asing yang diledakkan di perairan Batam oleh KKP dan TNI AL.

detik-detik pemusnahan delapan kapal asing asal Vietnam yang dimusnahkan di perairan Pulau Datuk, Kabupaten Mempawah, Kalbar (22/2/2016)

Among the 30 scuttled vessels, 11 were identified as Vietnamese, seven were Filipino and four as Malaysian. The rest were local vessels.

The scuttling was supported by the Indonesian Navy, National Police, Indonesian Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) and the Attorney General's Office, Tyas said.

Indonesia, under the leadership of President Joko Widodo, has declared a war on foreign vessels illegally fishing in its waters and has taken a strong stance by sinking them.

The Ministry has so far scuttled 151 vessels for illegal operations, comprised of 50 Vietnamese vessels, 43 Filipino, 21 Thai, 20 Malaysian, two Papua New Guinean, one Chinese and 14 Indonesian.

- Indonesia Scuttles 30 Vessels in Anti-Illegal Fishing Program | Jakarta Globe
- Setelah Kapal Asing Diledakkan, Nelayan Langsung Berlomba Cari Puing-Puingnya di Laut - Tribun Batam

 

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Fiery warning against illegal fishing

Indonesia sank 27 impounded foreign boats yesterday, as the country stepped up a campaign against illegal fishing in its waters.

The empty vessels from the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar were blown up or scuttled at five locations across the country, said Indonesian Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Susi Pudjiastuti.

Those boats had been caught fishing illegally in the archipelago of more than 17,000 islands. Four Indonesian boats were also sunk after their crews were caught fishing without proper documentation.

Fiery warning against illegal fishing, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

 

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Consulate General in Manado Repatriates 136 Filipinos
24 February 2016 - One hundred thirty-six (136) Filipinos detained for fishing in the waters of Indonesia were scheduled to be repatriated on February 23 from Bitung City, Indonesia to General Santos City, Philippines via KUDA LAUT 01, a vessel owned by a prominent Filipino businessman in Bitung, Mr. Voltaire Loma. These Filipinos came from the Indonesian Immigration Offices of Sorong, Ternate, Bitung, and the Immigration Office – Detention Center in Manado (RUDENIM).

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