A Few Of our fishermen are facing legal procedure in Malaysia, India, Thailand, and Papua New Guinea. Their number has to do with 68
Jakarta – Sixty-eight Indonesian anglers have actually been charged with trespassing in other nations, the Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry has actually divulged.
The number of Indonesian fishermen discovered trespassing the territories of other countries is still high, director of infraction handling at the Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry, Teuku Elvitrasyah, said in a press statement released in Jakarta on Wednesday.
” Some of our anglers are facing legal procedure in Malaysia, India, Thailand, and Papua New Guinea. Their number is about 68,” he informed.
In the past 3 years, 140 Indonesian fishermen have been detained in numerous countries, he stated.
Therefore, the ministry has continued to implement different methods to improve the fishermen’s understanding and awareness, he included.
One such technique included acquainting anglers with the ban on trespassing the territory of other nations during a conference kept in Rayeuk, East Aceh district, Aceh province.
” This is our effort to support Indonesian fishermen so other countries will not apprehend them any longer for breaching state borders,” Elvitrasyah stated.
Lots of standard Indonesian anglers have been apprehended abroad in the past since they did not plainly understand Indonesia’s sea borders with other nations, he mentioned.
This happened since they were not equipped with navigation and communication gadgets and did not have sea maps, he stated.
” It is essential for them to comprehend technical matters related to territorial borders so they will no longer breach the state borders,” he included.
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