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Ministry to tighten maritime surveillance after sand-dredging incident
On Oct. 9, the government found two foreign vessels dredging sea sand in Indonesian waters.
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A crane on a floating platform dredges sand from the sea in Benoa Bay, Bali, on Jan. 29, 2024. (Shutterstock/moonmovie)
The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry has vowed to tighten surveillance of Indonesian waters following the discovery of two foreign vessels dredging sea sand in the waters near Batam city, Riau Islands province.
“We will focus our surveillance in the waters we suspect to have been the route for dredger vessels,” ministry spokesman Wahyu Muryadi said on Tuesday, as quoted by kompas.com.
Wahyu said the ministry would keep watch in the waters around Batam city, the Karimun Islands, the Natuna Islands and areas near the country’s maritime borders where illegal sand dredging was likely to take place.
