Indonesia claims to have detected at least 13 Vietnamese patrol boats holding station on the official "continental shelf" boundary between Indonesia and Vietnam in the Natuna Sea this year, with the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry alleging they were there to assist Vietnamese vessels to fish illegally in disputed waters nearby. Mas Achmad Santosa, the head of Satgas 115, the ministry’s illegal fishing task force, said officials concluded the vessels were Vietnamese patrol boats after analyzing data sourced from the Automatic Identification System (AIS) -- an automatic tracking system that monitors transponders on ships and is used by vessel traffic services -- and the ministry's Vessel Monitoring System (VMS), as well as its COSMO-Skymed Radar Imagery. “Our analysis shows that these are patrol vessels of the Vietnamese government and they are posit...
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