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“China immediately requested Indonesia to release the detained Chinese fishermen and ensure their physical safety,” she said at a regularly scheduled news conference in Beijing. The confrontation was not the first between Indonesia and China over Chinese fishing vessels near the Natuna Islands, but the government in Jakarta has de-emphasized previous ones or kept them under wraps. China is one of Indonesia’s largest trading partners and an important market for its commodities, including palm oil and coal. The countries recently signed an agreement for China to build a high-speed rail link between Jakarta and Bandung, the capital of West Java Province. In March 2013, an Indonesian Maritime Ministry vessel caught a Chinese fishing boat operating in the same region near the Natuna Islands and confiscated the vessel and detained its nine-person crew. Several hours later, the Indonesian ship was confronted by a Chinese vessel, reportedly armed with mounted machine guns and light cannons, which demanded the release of the boat and its crew. Outgunned and fearing the Chinese ship might open fire, the Indonesian captain complied, and the episode has seldom been spoken of since.
Indonesia is not a claimant in the disputes, but a contentious line drawn by China, which marks its territorial claims to around 90 percent of the maritime region, appears to overlap with part of Indonesia’s maritime 200-mile exclusive economic zone around the Natuna Islands, according to analysts. Since 1994, Indonesia has sought clarification from China about whether the line encompassed the Natuna Islands or its exclusive economic zone, but, until recently, it had never received an official response from Beijing. In November, however, China’s Foreign Ministry acknowledged Indonesia’s sovereignty over the Natuna Islands, although it did not address the issue of the exclusive economic zone
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Post time 22-3-2016 06:58 PM
