(Jakarta Comprehensive) Indonesia sent warships to Hainan, South China to monitor the long -term Chinese maritime ships.
According to the data of the ship tracking, the Chinese Maritime Police CCG 5901 has sailed in the Tuna Bloc and Vietnamese Empty Bird Oil and Gas Fields in Hainan, South China since December 30 last year.This sea area has fallen into Indonesia's exclusive economic zone. It is known as the North Natuna Sea in Indonesia, but it also overlaps with the "nine section lines" of China's oath of southern China Haihai's sovereignty.
Laksamana Muhammad Ali, the Chief Indonesian Navy chief, told Reuters on Saturday (January 14) that in addition to warships, Indonesia also dispatched a maritime patrol aircraft and a drone to participate in surveillance.
Laksara said: "Chinese ships have not yet carried out any suspicious activities. But we have to monitor it because it has been in the Indonesian exclusive economic zone."
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia has not responded to Reuters inquiries.However, according to the United Nations Convention on the Marine Law, ships have the right to pass the exclusive economic zone.
Indonesia and Chinese ships have also monitored each other around the Tuner Gas field for several months in 2021.The latest round of the two sides was announced in Indonesia and Vietnam's announcement of the completion of the South China Sea's exclusive economic zone community, and the Indonesian government announced that it approved the first mining plan for the Tuner Gasfield.
