Antara News, Monday, October 18, 2010 22:31 WIB
Surabaya, East Java (ANTARA News) - A navy patrol has seized two Vietnamese-flagged boats for allegedly poaching in Natuna island waters.
The two boats had been seized because they were in the Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone in the South China Sea without permits from the Indonesian government, Navy Eastern Fleet Command spokesman Lt Col Yayan Sugiana said here on Monday.
The BV-99678 boat weighing 130 gross tons led by skipper Hun and 22 crew members are now secured at the Ranai naval base in Riau Islands along with the other boat KG-15381 weighing 90 gross tons led by skipper Yui, he said.
Another navy patrol ship, KRI Sangkulirang-542 involved in the Eastern Regional Sea Security Operations meanwhile have seized two boats found conducting illegal transactions in the Makassar Strait.
The LCT Muara Samudera Pacific and MT Cahaya Ujung-03 are now being held at Kotabara naval base in South Kalimantan. "The two boats are believed to have conducted fuel oil trading illegally at sea," Yayan said quoting the captain of KRI Teluk Sangkulirang, Ipong Wicaksono as saying.
He said the skipper of LCT Muara Samudera Pacific, Yuli Purwanto, failed to show a radio station permit and did not put up a registration sign.The boat weighing 1,215 gross ton carried 13 Indonesian crew members.
MT Cahaya Ujung with its skipper Nasir carried 30 tons of fuel oil believed to have been obtained illegally. The boat with eight crew on board did not carry shipping permit documents and a national pollution prevention certificate.
