China protests arrest of fishermen

The Jakarta Post ,  Pontianak   |  Tue, 06/23/2009 7:50 PM  |  National

The Chinese government has filed an official protest against Indonesia over the recent arrest of Chinese fishermen operating in Indonesia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea, state news agency Antara has reported.

Head of the Pontianak Fishery and Ocean Resources Monitoring Agency, Bambang Nugroho, said Tuesday his office had detained the eight vessels and all 77 fishermen on board after they were caught fishing on their way to the office of the West Kalimantan Fishery and Ocean Agency.

“Legally, any ships may cross the zone, but they are not allowed to catch fish in the waters,” Bambang said.

He added that his office had received word of the protest, lodged by China’s consulate mediator.
Aji Sularso, general director of the Fishery and Oceanic Resources Monitoring Agency, confirmed the complaint last night.

“We will pursue the legal processes and punish them for their violations. We will continue to detain them even if they pay for compensation,” Aji said. (ewd)

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Nikoniki (not verified) — Wed, 07/08/2009 - 3:35am

China arrests Vietnam fishermen. Indonesia arrests Chinese fishermen. Australia arrests Indonesian fishermen. (Please see articles in ‘Related News’ below)

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/06/26/china-releases-25-vietname...

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Is it time to rearrange boundaries? Or abolish them altogether! One world united! No cheating nor being cheated! All boundaries are artificial anyway (except geographical, and most of these can be surmounted nowadays)

Tris (not verified) — Sun, 07/05/2009 - 4:44pm

but indonesian afraid of western people,ep.americans,lol

Leigh (not verified) — Sun, 07/05/2009 - 4:30pm

for this controversial issue,people need to sit down and carry out a solution,however,make bad relationship with other country is not wise for indonesia. or just be a tool of american against to china who has the potential to challenge western economy.
plus, no wonder,indonesian locals have a special radical feeling to chinese,no matter how few they know about the chinese.i have been staying in indonesia for a couple years,peeking through the beautiful scenes,bias always can slip in our eyes.so,not surprised that not surprised that indonesian also find the backup from the yankee master,thus,barking could encourage the "nationalism"

btw,the guy above declared that "imperialism",very funny,you found a wrong word from dictionary to describe chinese.

peace out

Tom81 (not verified) — Sat, 06/27/2009 - 9:27am

Good job guys! Indonesia is not afraid of Chinese imperialism

Totty (not verified) — Thu, 06/25/2009 - 10:33am

Why China Government do not take any useful action to such country to protect our people? Why!Why!
In 1998,the Indonesia killed so many Chinese people, which will be never forgot.

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