Antara News, Friday, October 8, 2010 23:47 WIB
Jakarta (ANTARA News)-- Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha clarified that the ship with five Indonesian fishermen in the waters of Pulau Pisang was not rammed by a Malaysian water police boat.
He said at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta Friday that he learnt from the foreign affairs ministry that the fisherman`s boat had an accident alone and went down.
Julian added that it was the Malaysian water police boat that had come to the rescue of the sinking fishermen`s vessel.
Consequently, all the fishermen on the ill-fated boat were unhurt and sent back to Indonesia by Malaysia.
Julian also confirmed that the accident took place in Malaysian territorial waters because two islands in the Pulau Pisang waters had been claimed by both Indonesia and Malaysia.Julian said the problem has already been solved by the two sies.
