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Jakarta continues search for missing sailors with Tokyo, Taipei
The Foreign Ministry is continuing to coordinate with authorities in Japan and Taiwan over an unidentified vessel that capsized north of the Senkaku Islands with at least six Indonesian sailors aboard.
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An overturned boat drifts in waters north of the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, as seen in this handout photo taken on March 5, 2023 and released on March 6 by Japan’s 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters. The Japan Coast Guard said on March 6 it was searching for seven people reported missing after their boat capsized and was spotted in waters off the disputed island group, which China also claims. (APP/Handout/11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters)
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Foreign Ministry official said on Monday it was coordinating with authorities in Japan and Taiwan after six Indonesian sailors were reported missing after their boat capsized in the waters of the disputed Senkaku Islands.
Key details about the capsizing on Sunday were still being investigated, said the ministry’s citizen protection director, Judha Nugraha, noting that the “whereabouts of the entire crew are still unknown”, despite the four patrol boats deployed to search the area.
On Sunday afternoon, the Japan Coast Guard spotted a capsized ship that was reportedly carrying seven people drifting in the waters north of the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, an uninhabited island group that China also claims.
Six Indonesians were among the crew, as well as one Taiwanese national, Japan Coast Guard spokesman Keisuke Nakao told AFP on Monday.
“The latest developments found that one person died. The identification process is still ongoing,” Judha said on Monday afternoon in response to reports that a man, possibly Indonesian, had been found in the cabin of the overturned ship.
Foreign Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi had spoken with her Japanese counterpart “to request support” for Japan to “deploy ship and aircraft assets in searching for the ship’s crew”, he added.
Judha also said the Indonesian embassy in Tokyo was still communicating with the Japan Coast Guard as well as the Japan Self-Defense Forces on details of the search and rescue (SAR) operation.
