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Govt to send three ships to identify unnamed islands
Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Indroyono Soesilo said on Monday that the government had planned to deploy three ships to identify thousands of unnamed islands in Indonesian territory to avoid future conflicts with neighboring countries
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oordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Indroyono Soesilo said on Monday that the government had planned to deploy three ships to identify thousands of unnamed islands in Indonesian territory to avoid future conflicts with neighboring countries.
'We are sending the ships to the western, eastern and central partS of the Indonesian archipelago to get data on and name those unnamed islands,' he said as quoted by tempo.co.
Indroyono said that at least 4,000 islands in Indonesia did not have names.
The naming process, he added, would also involve local people, who inhabited the islands.
Indroyono said that this project would take time to complete. After naming the islands, the Indonesian government must register the new names with the United Nations to avoid conflicts with other countries. (ika)(++++)
