Indonesia Maritime defence and security issue

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Indonesian Marine and Fishery Patrol has seized 42 units illegal fishing boats from January until march this year.

This number is bigger compared to 32 boats that seized in the same period last year. From 42 boats, 4 units come from Philippines, 4 units come from Malasia, while the rest come from Vietnam. VN boats mostly captured in Natuna waters, PH boats mostly captured in north sulawesi waters, while Malasia boats mostly captured in Malacca strait.

https://finance.detik.com/berita-ek...gkap-42-kapal-pencuri-ikan-hingga-akhir-maret

Police detain Malasian fishing boat, four crews

Aceh marine police have seized a Malaysian-flagged fishing boat and arrested four Myanmar crews and the captain for alleged illegal fishing in the Indonesian waters of Melaka Straits.

An official of Aceh marine police, Adjunct Senior Commissioner Sukamat, said here on Tuesday that the fishing boat was detained on April 16 at 04.21 am local time.

"The boat was named KM KHF 1742. Before it was arrested, the Malaysian-flagged boat had been monitored," Sukamat said, adding that the illegal fishing boat has used a trawl.

The boat tried to escape when the police patrolling boat approached them.

"After it was stopped, the police checked the ships document. But it did not have a fishing license in the Indonesian waters. The ship and its crews were brought to Kuala Nangsa," he noted.

The ships captain Nay Hun Tun, 37, and three crews, namely Min Win San, 26, Aye Myint Tun, 27, and Nai Min Kyaw, 26, were all Burmese.

"At first, they tried to greet Indonesian police with Bahasa Indonesia and acted as if they are Indonesian fishermen. But after further investigation, the police found that they were Burmese," he added.

The police have also seized some 100 kilogram of fish, a set of trawl, GPS, radio, ships document, and a passport.

The case would be handled by the maritime and fishery monitoring post in Belawan.

http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/110513/police-detain-malaysian-fishing-boat-four-crews

 

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Indonesia seeks Interpol's help to find dredger
China-flagged ship escapes after 20 crew members arrested for pillaging shipwreck

Jakarta is seeking Interpol's help to nab a Chinese dredger vessel that escaped after being stopped by the Indonesian navy on Thursday in waters off the Riau Islands, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said.
The crew of the China-flagged MV Chuan Hong 68 was allegedly pillaging the shipwreck of Swedish supertanker Seven Skies, which sankbetween Jemaja and Repong islands in 1969.
The navy patrol had left the vessel anchored at the scene as it took back the crew for questioning onshore, but when a second warship arrived to secure the Chuan Hong, it was gone.
"We hope that for this huge vessel, we could get Interpol's assistance to help with the arrest. This was not a fishing boat, but a dredger boat," said Ms Susi.
The Jakarta Post said MV Chuan Hong 68 is a 8,352 gross ton vessel, 122m long and 32m wide.
The incident was revealed at Ms Susi's meeting with reporters on Friday night at her home, where she was giving an update on Indonesia's enforcement action in its maritime territories.
The Jakarta Post reported Navy Deputy Chief of Staff, Vice-Admiral Achmad Taufiqoerrochman, saying that 20 of the vessel's crew - 16 of whom were Chinese nationals - were arrested.
He did not rule out that other crewmen may have been hiding on the vessel during the inspection and later escaped with the dredger.
Earlier this month, Indonesia announced it had destroyed 317 fishing boats confiscated from poachers since President Joko Widodo took office in October 2014.
Of these, 81 were blown up and sunk by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries on April 1 to signal that the government is not letting up on its fight against illegal fishing in its territorial waters.
Most of the 317 fishing boats were from Vietnam (142), followed by the Philippines (76), Malaysia (49), and as far as Belize in Central America. One was from China.
Last year, Indonesia suffered annual losses of more than US$20 billion (S$28 billion) from poaching and illegal transhipment activities, according to Ms Susi's ministry.
The ministry said in a statement on Friday that enforcement action against unlawful incursions in Indonesian waters resulted in the arrest of 107 illegal fishing boats from Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam between January and April this year. "Illegal fishing is more rampant," Ms Susi said, adding that so far the number of such cases this year is higher than the same period last year.

http://www.straitstimes.com/world/indonesia-seeks-interpols-help-to-find-dredger

 

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Patrol ships seize five Vietnamese-flagged fishing vessels

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - A patrol ship of the Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs (KKP) has seized five Vietnamese-flagged boats for allegedly fishing illegally in Indonesian waters.

"The KKP has once again showed success in protecting the countrys sovereignty and fisheries and marine resources," the Secretary of the Ministrys Directorate General of Fisheries and Marine Resources Supervision, Waliyo Abutohir, said in a press statement received here on Friday.

He said the foreign vessels were caught in the Indonesia Exclusive Economic Zone around the South China Sea on April 21.

The ships are identified as KM. TG 94196 TS, TG 91917 TS, KM. TG 90869 TS, KM. TG 92367 TS and KM. TG 92512 TS.

A total of 31 crew members, who are all Vietnamese citizens, have been arrested following the operation and arrived in Pontianak on Thursday.

"They will be legally processed," Waliyo said.

From January till the end of April this year, KKP has seized up to 68 ships for illegally fishing in the countrys waters.

KKP Minister Susi Pudjiastuti revealed during a visit to Japan recently that Indonesia would adopt Japans radar surveillance technology to monitor the countrys fishery and maritime sector.

"I was in Wakatobi some days ago and saw a Japanese-made radar there. I hope Indonesia can have more of them to be placed minimally in four locations in Indonesia," she said.

Susi further said she had expressed an interest in the Japanese technology when she met with the President Director of Japan Radio Co (JRC), Kenji Ara, on April 12.

On the occasion, Kenji said JRC has six representative companies in Indonesia employing 3,200 Indonesia workers.

"We are glad to hear that the minister is interested in the JRC monitoring system. We will be happy discussing it and contributing to the Indonesian radar system. Perhaps, it will be later," he said.

Minister Susi said Indonesia needs radars to improve KKPs surveillance technology to make prevention of illegal fishing boats more optimal.

She added that she was interested in the JRC radar because it could detect foreign ships entering the countrys waters within a radius of up to 150 kilometers.

"The Indonesian government is exploring the latest surveillance technology that may be used in Indonesia."

http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/110687/patrol-ships-seize-five-vietnamese-flagged-fishing-vessels

 

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Indonesia-Philippines sea border pact ratified

JAKARTA - Indonesia's Parliament on Thursday (April 27) ratified a landmark sea border agreement with the Philippines, which sets the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) boundaries between the two countries in the Mindanao and Celebes seas.

"The conclusion of the agreement with the Philippines and the subsequent ratification by Indonesian Parliament constitutes the seriousness of the Indonesian government in resolving the border issue with all of Indonesia's neighbours," said Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi in a statement.

The new boundary, said to be about 1,161km long, is the first maritime border agreement to be finalised between Jakarta and Manila.

It was first inked in 2014 after more than two decades of negotiations between the two sides.

The ratification by Parliament comes just days before President Joko Widodo heads to Manila for the 30th Asean Summit and a meeting with his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte, to launch a new trade route aimed at improving connectivity in the region.

Lawmakers at the plenary session on Thursday applauded the move, adding that the pact will also support security operations to safeguard the area against piracy and terrorism, as well as offer economic opportunities.

"This benefits both countries as there is now confidence over where the borders are, and therefore each country can explore and exploit the natural resources such as fish, crude oil, gas and other minerals," said Mr T.B. Hasanuddin, who is deputy chair of the Parliamentary Defence Committee.

When the agreement was first signed in 2014 during the term of then-president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, it was hailed as a model for the peaceful settlement of territorial disputes in the region.

It also came amid the escalation of tensions fuelled by Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea.

China claims almost all of the strategic waterway, while Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have overlapping claims.

Indonesia is not a party to the disputes but became concerned after Beijing declared in March last year that the waters around the Natunas, which lie within Indonesia's EEZ, are part of its "traditional fishing grounds".

Indonesia's Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry officials had said that a clear boundary will allow it to take tougher enforcement action against illegal fishing in its waters.

"A clear boundary will make it easier for us to take strict action when we find Filipino fishermen operating in our waters," Mr Reza Shah Pahlevi, the ministry's director of fisheries management, told The Jakarta Post last week. "It will also provide legal certainty for our fishermen, especially in determining the areas where they can operate."

Ms Retno added on Thursday that Indonesia will continue its efforts in negotiating the three-point boundary between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-philippines-sea-border-pact-ratified

 

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Indonesia arrests 580 Vietnamese fishermen

JAKARTA – Indonesian authorities have detained nearly 580 Vietnamese fishermen for illegally fishing in the country’s waters, according to the Vietnamese embassy in Jakarta. The captured fishermen are mainly from the provinces of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu, Tiền Giang and Kiên Giang in the south, and Bình Định, Khánh Hòa, Phú Yên, and Bình Thuận in the central region.

Nguyễn Thanh Giang, a staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia, said the list of arrested Vietnamese fishermen “does not match reality,” so they are working hard to get updated information so that citizen protection procedures are initiated to get the fishermen back home.

Vietnamese Ambassador Hoàng Anh Tuấn told Vietnam News Agency reporters in Indonesia that the embassy always attaches importance to protecting Vietnamese citizens and promptly addressing relevant issues.

The agency has asked the Indonesian side to treat the Vietnamese fishermen humanely and return their assets. It has also co-ordinated with authorised agencies in Viet Nam to complete procedures for repatriating the fishermen.

The embassy has recommended that relatives of arrested citizens co-ordinate with the department of foreign affairs in their localities to fulfill related procedures and ask Indonesian authorities to release the fishermen.

The number of Vietnamese fishermen arrested by Indonesian authorities has increased this year. Since the beginning of 2017, 42 fishing boats with 392 fishermen have been arrested.

The embassy has coordinated with concerned Indonesian agencies to repatriate 390 fishermen.

To prevent similar violations, the embassy has worked with domestic agencies to increase communication campaigns to raise Vietnamese fishermen’s awareness of regulations of both nations and the need to strictly abide by them.

Indonesia strictly implements regulations on illegal fishing activities in the country’s waters. In almost all cases, violating ships or boats are destroyed. VNS

http://vietnamnews.vn/society/375921/indonesia-arrests-580-vietnamese-fishermen.html

 

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Indonesia Captures Maritime Grave Robbers

Somebody has been stealing warships from Southeast Asian waters – more specifically, sunken warships, which are prized for their scrap metal value. Indonesian authorities now believe that they have caught one of the perpetrators: they allege that the 8,000 gt Chinese grab dredger Chuan Hong 68 was responsible for illegally wrecking the pre-WWII Japanese destroyer Sagiri, plus the passenger vessels Hiyoshi Maru and Katori Maru, the steamship Igara and – most recently – the tanker Seven Skies.

The Chuan Hong 68's crew under arrest (Indonesian Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry / supplied)

It is the second time that maritime authorities have caught the Chuan Hong 68 in as many months. On April 20, the Indonesian Navy detained her in the waters off Natuna in the Riau Islands on the suspicion that she was engaged in illegal dredging. She escaped on April 22 and fled to Malaysia, where she was detained once again by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. Indonesian authorities have taken custody of her 20 crewmembers for questioning.

"I laud the Malaysian authorities, in this case the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, which has been cooperating with the Indonesian Navy, to seize MV Chuan Hong 68 in the Pengerang waters, East Johor," said Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti in a statement. She added that the practice of illegal salvage was unfortunately common in Indonesian waters, by foreign as well as domestic vessels.

The Jakarta Post reports that the Chinese government believes the Chuan Hong 68 was operating under charter to a Malaysian firm. "It has been engaged in offshore engineering in the waters specified by the Malaysian side according to the contract," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

As of Monday, the Chuan Hong 68's AIS signal showed her at anchor at the Pasir Gudang Anchorage off Pengerang, Malaysia. Recent images of her topsides show a heavy crane all the way forward on her bow, rigged to a giant pointed grapple. Scrap is shown strewn about the decks aft of the crane.

Unlicensed wreck removal has affected a significant number of maritime war graves in Northern European and Southeast Asian waters. Many warships sunk in World War I and World War II have been vandalized for their bronze propellers, the copper in their boilers and even for their scantlings and hull plating. Vessels built before 1942 have steel that was smelted before atomic bomb testing put radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere, and this "low-background" material is valuable for building sensitive instrumentation.

The plundering continues despite the fact that these ships are designated war graves. Two Dutch vessels that went down in the Battle of the Java Sea have completely disappeared, along with a section of a third. The wrecks of HMAS Perth, HMS Electra, HMS Exeter, USS Houston and USS Perch have also been affected.

UK newspaper The Guardian found that local institutions in Indonesia – including a university and a maritime authority – were involved in "licensing" at least one WWII vessel salvage operation. Photos of that operation taken by local residents and provided to the paper (below) correspond closely to the appearance of the Chuan Hong 68.

http://maritime-executive.com/article/indonesia-captures-maritime-grave-robbers

 

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Indonesia Wants Global War on Illegal Fishing
The Southeast Asian state wants illegal fishing to be declared a transnational crime.

By Prashanth Parameswaran - May 09, 2017

Over the weekend, Indonesia’s Maritime and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said at a seminar that Indonesia would ask the United Nations to support its efforts to categorize illegal fishing as a transnational crime. Her comments reflect the importance that the administration of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has attached to illegal fishing domestically, regionally, as well as internationally.

As I have noted before, since coming to power in October 2014, Jokowi has vowed to realize his vision of turning Indonesia into a “global maritime fulcrum” between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. While that vision has several pillars, one key manifestation of it has been clamping down on illegal fishing. According to Jokowi, over 5,000 ships operate illegally in Indonesian waters each year, making a mockery of Indonesian sovereignty and resulting in annual losses of over $20 billion. The fishing sector is a key part of Indonesia’s economic development – according to 2016 data by the United Nations (UN), Indonesia is the world’s second biggest fish producer, generating 14.3 million tons of seafood per year.

The most visible manifestation of Indonesia’s crackdown on illegal fishing has been the public sinking of ships, dubbed the “sink the vessels” policy (See: “Explaining Indonesia’s Sink The Vessels Policy Under Jokowi”). But Indonesian officials have been keen to emphasize – and rightly so – that there are other important economic, legal, and diplomatic efforts that are being undertaken at home as well, including a moratorium on issuing business licenses and the setting up of local fisheries courts.

Meanwhile, abroad, Indonesian officials, including Jokowi and Susi, have been raising the issue of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU) in regional and international fora and working more with other institutions that have long been highlighting problems in this domain. At the Second International Symposium on Fisheries Crime in Yogyakarta last October, Jokowi reiterated the case for cracking down on illegal fishing, noting that Indonesia’s own efforts had already seen its production capacity rise over the past few years. And during the World Ocean Summit in Bali in February, Susi made a similar call to the one she did this weekend, asking the UN and the European Commission (EC) to classify IUU fishing as a transnational organized crime.

In the eyes of Susi, the case for making illegal fishing a transnational crime is clear. IUU fishing by nature involves transnational organizations from various countries – using different flags, crews, and ships – which means that truly cracking down on it would require enforcement from international institutions like the UN and the European Union (EU). Furthermore, classifying it as such would also allow countries to get assistance from organizations such as Interpol and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for their own efforts to eradicate IUU fishing.

Indonesia’s international efforts have found backing from other countries as well, including Norway and Sweden. That too is no surprise. For years, countries have complained that illegal fishing, which can include a range of practices along the fisheries value chain not only at sea, but also on land, from improper vessel registration to money laundering, has received neither the attention it deserves nor the understanding it requires. This has especially been the case on the law enforcement side, where some illegal fishing practices are the product of organized criminal groups.

Despite the obstacles inherent in such an effort, Indonesia shows few signs of letting up. Indeed, in her remarks over the weekend, which were at a seminar at Muhammadiyah University in Yogyakarta, Susi indicated that Peter Thomson, the president of the UN General Assembly, had helped coordinate and facilitate a side event where Indonesia could raise the issue of illegal fishing and ask the world body’s support to declare it a transnational crime.

http://thediplomat.com/2017/05/indonesia-wants-global-war-on-illegal-fishing/

 

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‘That’s My Fish’: Indonesia’s Fisheries Enforcer Blasts Poachers

WASHINGTON — A high school dropout turned seafood entrepreneur is leading Indonesia’s crackdown on illegal fishing, winning plaudits from conservationists and awards as far away as Washington despite her explosive methods.

A favorite tactic: seizing foreign fishing vessels and blowing them into smithereens to send a message to her country’s neighbors.

Susi Pudjiastuti, honored this week in Washington for her ecological work, has led the charge in destroying hundreds of fishing vessels in the past two years as the Indonesian government’s minister for maritime affairs and fisheries. Her efforts haven’t eliminated a problem that has plagued the archipelago nation for decades, she said, but they have boosted fish stocks and curbed smuggling.

Benchley award

Catches of anchovies, king prawns and yellow fin tuna are up, helping local fishermen and reducing food prices, Pudjiastuti said.

“What we actually earn also is respect,” Pudjiastuti said in the American capital, where she joined other recipients of the annual Peter Benchley Ocean Awards, named for the author of “Jaws.” She was cited for her efforts in protecting Indonesia’s marine ecosystem, and tackling poachers and organized crime.

“They cannot just do anything anymore,” Pudjiastuti added. Whereas 10,000 foreign vessels used to fish in Indonesian waters “like in their own country,” she said the new reality was clear: “Not anymore.”

FILE - Debris flies into the air as foreign fishing boats are blown up, Feb. 22, 2016, by the Indonesian Navy off Batam Island, Indonesia.



Neighbors irked

For China and others in the region, sensitive politics also are at play. Indonesia’s uncompromising approach has irked neighbors whose boats have been caught up in the dragnet for operating in seas plagued by territorial disputes. The campaign may partly reflect Indonesia’s desire to show it is in control of its vast territory of 17,000 islands.

Pudjiastuti, 52, has won popularity at home as the campaign’s leader, defying initial skepticism when she was tapped as minister in 2014. She had no political experience and hadn’t graduated high school. But she spent three decades as a seafood entrepreneur and knew the business. She also had run her own charter airline, Susi Air, to distribute and export produce.

On taking office, she quickly declared a fishing moratorium for foreign vessels that had often operated under Indonesian flags

300 vessels sunk

And to ram the point home, Indonesian authorities have sunk more than 300 foreign fishing vessels.

In the most recent mass-destruction in early April, Indonesian authorities destroyed 81 empty ships in a single weekend. Most were from Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. In March 2016, a large Nigerian-flagged vessel was caught poaching toothfish and, after being evacuated, blown up with great fanfare. Pudjiastuti posed on the beach afterward with navy officials, their fists raised in the air with the smoking boat behind them.

“The visuals and press that comes from her tough practices on blowing these ships up has really helped educate the world,” said Sally Yozell, director of the environmental security program at Washington’s Stimson Center think tank, speaking of the global scourge of overfishing. She recognized, however, the regional frictions of the campaign, which included several incidents last year of Indonesia firing warning shots and seizing Chinese fishing vessels in waters off its Natuna islands.

Help from US, Australia

Pudjiastuti also acknowledged some tensions. She said she briefed ambassadors of neighboring countries, including China, before the crackdown and sought support.

“Poaching is not a part of good bilateral relations,” she said Friday at the Stimson Center.

Indonesian authorities have another 100 seized fishing vessels waiting to be destroying and they are impounding another dozen or so each week, she said. Few are Chinese fishing vessels, which are bigger, faster and often accompanied by the nation’s coast guard, making it harder to police their activities, she added.

The United States and Australia are providing support to Indonesia, including satellite technology to help surveillance of waters. Indonesia hopes for Japanese technical help, too.

South China Sea Territorial Claims



Indonesia isn’t among the half-dozen governments contesting control of reefs and islands in the South China Sea, an emerging Asian flashpoint. But it has reason to be wary of China’s claims. The so-called nine-dash line that Beijing uses to demarcate its expansive territorial claims extends into Indonesia’s internationally recognized exclusive economic zone, or EEZ, that extends 200 nautical miles off its coast.

Pudjiastuti said she is less concerned over the subtleties over Indonesia’s stance than her diplomat colleagues. “For me it’s more clear. Once it’s in my EEZ, that’s my fish,” she said.

http://www.voanews.com/a/indonesia-fisheries-enforcer-honored/3850436.html

 

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Vietnamese, Indonesian patrol boats square off in Natuna waters

Indonesian authorities released five Vietnamese vessels after a patrol boat belonging to the neighboring country intercepted in the arrest of the vessels for fishing illegally in Natuna waters in Riau Islands on Sunday, an official has confirmed.

“That’s true, we will give more details in a media conference tomorrow,” Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry’s director general of oceanic and fisheries resources surveillance (PSDKP), Eko Djalmo, told The Jakarta Post on Monday.

The PSDKP reportedly arrested on Sunday morning five foreign fishing vessels flying Vietnamese flags that were equipped with gill nets, fishing equipment and 55 crew members.

When the PSDKP prepared to escort the vessels to its Batam base for processing, a Vietnamese patrol boat appeared. The patrol boat reportedly intercepted and rammed into one fishing vessels, which subsequently sank.

The Vietnamese patrol boat crew also reportedly apprehended a PSDKP crew member and asked that the fishing vessels and crews be released. Tension escalated in the afternoon when two Vietnamese navy ships arrived in Natuna waters.

Later in the afternoon, PSDKP patrol vessels returned to base without the arrested vessels.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/...patrol-boats-square-off-in-natuna-waters.html

 

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HIU 12 Tangkap 6 KIA Vietnam di Natuna

Direktorat Jenderal Pengawasan Sumber Daya Kelautan dan Perikanan (PSDKP) melalui Kapal Pengawas (KP) Perikanan berhasil menangkap kapal ikan asing (KIA) ilegal yang beroperasi di Wilayah Pengelolaan Perikanan Republik Indonesia (WPP-RI).

Penangkapan tersebut dilakukan oleh Direktorat Jenderal PSDKP melalui KP Hiu 12 yang dilakukan pada tanggal 10 Mei 2017. Keenam kapal berbendera Vietnam tersebut ditangkap di perairan Natuna, Kepulauan Riau.

Adapun kapal yang ditangkap, yaitu 1) KG 92673 TS, 2) KG 93374 TS, 3) KG 90430 TS, 4) KG 90429 TS, 5) BV 95008 TS dan 6) BV 6666 TS yang diawaki oleh 47 (empat puluh tujuh) orang berkewarganegaraan Vietnam. Kapal ditangkap karena melakukan penangkapan ikan di wilayah Republik Indonesia tanpa dilengkapi dokumen yang sah dari pemerintah Indonesia dengan menggunakan alat tangkap terlarang Trawl.

Selanjutnya keenam KIA tersebut dikawal ke Satwas PSDKP Natuna untuk menjalani proses hukum oleh Penyidik Pegawai Negeri Sipil (PPNS) Perikanan.

Kapal-kapal tersebut diduga melakukan pelanggaran dengan sangkaan tindak pidana perikanan sebagaimana diatur dalam Undang-Undang Nomor 31 Tahun 2004 tentang Perikanan sebagaimana telah diubah dengan Undang-Undang Nomor 45 Tahun 2009 dengan ancaman pidana penjara paling lama 6 (enam) tahun dan denda paling banyak Rp. 20 milyar.

http://djpsdkp.kkp.go.id/arsip/c/485/?category_id=20

 

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Indonesian Navy seized 1 illegal fishing boat from Malasia with 5 Thai crews, in Malacca strait, Mei 23th 2017

TNI Angkatan Laut Lanal Lhokseumawe kembali menangkap kapal ikan asing (KIA) asal Malaysia yang melakukan illegal fishing di Perairan Selat Malaka Zona Ekonomi Eksklusif Indonesia (ZEEI) Utara Aceh Tamiang, Selasa (23/5).

Kapal ikan berbendera Malaysia tersebut ditangkap unsur Kapal Angkatan Laut (KAL) Bireuen II-1-63 Lanal Lhokseumawe dengan Komandan KAL (Dankal) Lettu Laut (P) Yulianto yang tengah beroperasi patroli di Perairan Selat Malaka. Personel KAL Bireuen juga menahan kapal dan lima anak buah kapal (ABK).

Komandan Angkatan Laut (Danlanal) Lhokseumawe Kolonel Mar Nasruddin melalui Perwira Staf Operasi (Pasops) Lanal Lhokseumawe Mayor Laut (P) Anto Hartanto Wibisono, saat dihubungi Rabu (24/5/2017), mengatakan, kapal ikan yang ditangkap milik Than Choon Yap warga negara Malaysia.

Adapun lima ABK yang ditahan adalah Uthai Pradasuk, Chaichana Chuenta, Phuwadon Manyawet, Wirot Phimngam dan Traithep Promrak. Semua ABK merupakan warga negara Thailand.

https://www.harianaceh.co.id/2017/05/25/tni-al-kembali-tangkap-kapal-ikan-malaysia-di-perairan-aceh/

 

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Indonesian Maritime Police seized 1 Malaysian illegal fishing boat with three Myanmar crews in Malacca Strait, Mei 24th 2017

Petugas gabungan antara Direktorat Kepolisian Perairan (Ditpolair) Polda Aceh bersama BKO Mabes Polri yang menggunakan Kapal Zaitun-3014, kembali berhasil menangkap kapal nelayan asing berbendera Malaysia KM KHF 1821 GT 63.19 di Perairan Selat Malaka, Rabu (24/5) lalu sekitar pukul 03.00 WIB dini hari. Kapal yang diawaki tiga anak buah kapal (ABK) asal Myanmar diduga mencuri ikan di Selat Malaka Perairan Indonesia.

Meski kejadian ini hampir sepekan lalu, Direktur Polair Polda Aceh Kombes Pol Drs Suroso Miharjo MM baru memberitahukan hal ini pada Minggu (28/5). Menurut Kombes Suroso, penangkapan itu dilakukan setelah tim gabungan mendeteksi keberadaan kapal nelayan asing itu sedang mencuri ikan di perairan Aceh. “Ketika kapal petugas gabungan mendekat, nahkoda dan Kepala Kamar Mesin (KKM) kapal asing itu langsung melompat ke laut dan menaiki kapal lain. Tapi, tiga ABK KM KHF 1821 GT 63.19 itu tetap berada di kapal,” ungkap Kombes Suroso didampingi Kasubdit Gakkum, AKBP Sukamat SH, SIK, MH.

AKBP Sukamat menyebutkan ketiga ABK asal Myanmar yang berada di kapal nelayan asing tersebut adalah Yan Naing (30), Nay Lin Annangu (28), dan Aung Myo Lwim (34).

“Mereka mencuri ikan menggunakan pukat tunda (trawl netts). Di samping itu juga melanggar ketentuan dan perundang-undangan karena menangkap ikan di wilayah perairan Indonesia.”

Sukamat menambahkan selama ini kapal-kapal nelayan asing yang ditangkap karena mencuri ikan di Perairan Selat Malaka berbendera Malaysia, tetapi nahkoda dan para ABK-nya adalah warga Myanmar.

Kasubdit Gakkum, AKBP Sukamat mengatakan kapal nelayan asing itu sudah ditarik ke Satpolair Polres Kuala Langsa dan sudah diserahkan ke PPNS PSDKP Belawan Pos Idi di Aceh Timur. Begitu juga dokumen kapal dan barang bukti (BB) lainnya, seperti 500 kilogram ikan campuran dan satu set alat tangkap ikan Trawl. Ketiga tersangka ini diduga melanggar Pasal 92 UU RI Nomor 31 Tahun 2004 tentang Perikanan.

http://tribratanewsaceh.com/lagi-la...ikan-berhasil-ditangkap-ditpolair-polda-aceh/



Indonesian Navy seized 1 Vietnamese illegal fishing boat in Natuna sea while being observed from afar by VN Coast Guard, Mei 28, 2017.

Gugus Keamanan Laut Komando Armada RI Kawasan Barat (Guskamla Koarmabar) yang dipimpin Komandan Guskamlaarmabar Laksamana Pertama TNI Bambang Irwanto, M.Tr (Han)., menangkap dan mengamankan kapal ikan asing (KIA) berbendera Vietnam yang sedang melakukan penangkapan ikan tanpa dilengkapi dokumen yang sah (ilegal fishing) di perairan Laut Natuna, Minggu (28/5).

KIA berbendera Vietnam yang sedang melakukan penangkapan ikan secara ilegal tersebut, diperiksa dan diamankan oleh KRI Fatahillah-361 salah satu unsur di bawah kendali operasi (BKO) Guskamla Koarmabar. Saat dilaksanakan pemeriksaan pada posisi 06° 00’ 00’’ LU - 105° 53’ 30’’ BT, KIA Vietnam tersebut tampak dibayang-bayangi Cost Guard Vietnam dengan jarak kurang lebih 5 nm, namun pemeriksaan tetap dilaksanakan dikarenakan KIA Vietnam berada di wilayah perairan Zona Ekonomi Eksklusif Indonesia (ZEEI).

Dari hasil pemeriksaan sementara, KIA Vietnam tersebut diketahui bernama BD 10783 TS berbobot 50 GT dengan ABK berjumlah 6 orang dan diduga kuat telah melakukan pelanggaran batas wilayah perairan Indonesia dengan melakukan kegiatan penangkapan ikan tanpa dilengkapi dokumen dan ijin yang sah (ilegal fishing) di wilayah perairan ZEEI.

Berdasarkan pelanggaran tersebut, KIA berbendera Vietnam beserta ABK dan muatannya dikawal menuju Pangkalan Angkatan Laut (Lanal) Tarempa guna melaksanakan proses hukum lebih lanjut.

http://www.portal-komando.com/2017/05/guskamla-koarmabar-tangkap-kia.html

 

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Indonesia releases 695 Vietnamese fishermen

Some fishermen had been languishing in detention centers for 2 years after straying into Indonesian waters

By Ainur Rohmah - Friday, 9/6/2017

Indonesia on Friday released 695 Vietnamese fishermen who were detained after straying into its waters.

They had been languishing in detention centers in Sumatra’s Riau province after being captured by authorities and accused of illegal fishing.

The freed fishermen will be picked up by three Vietnamese coast guard ships in the waters of Batam, said Eko Djalmo, head of marine and fishery resources at the Maritime Affairs Ministry.

Only five of the fishermen had served prison sentences, while the 690 others never went to trial, he added.

Some fishermen had been in the detention centers for as long as two years, Djalmo said, according to Indonesian news website Kompas.com.

Indonesia has harsh laws to combat illegal fishing in its waters. Detained foreign vessels are cleared of their crew, and then fired at and sunk.

The captain is captured and forced to undergo legal proceedings.

The fishermen’s release comes as Vietnam returned an Indonesian patrolman it had rescued from a boat accident in May.

In September 2016, Indonesia released 228 Vietnamese fishermen.

http://aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/indonesia-releases-695-vietnamese-fishermen/838196

 

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