BATAM, BN: Time to tighten the Indonesia-Malaysia relations after the arrest of three employees of the Department of Marine and Fisheries (DKP) Riau Islands Province, by the Malaysian Police, push Department of Marine, Fisheries, Agriculture and Forestry (KP2K) Batam, participate and improve supervision. The point waters into conduction Indonesian border with Malaysia, too, stared.
"We've come up with the idea to do the coordination with relevant agencies in terms of surveillance (border)," said Suhartini, Head of Batam City Government KP2K.
Department KP2K necessarily averse Indonesian waters alone glare border with Malaysia. Suhartini confirmed it will co-Aquatic Police (Polair) Barelang Police, the Navy (Navy), including the Department of Transportation (Affair) in Batam, will be intense monitoring border points with Malaysia, including with other neighboring countries.
When asked news of cooperation between Indonesia and Australia related to the procurement of border control post-arrest by a police officer DKP Malaysian Islands, the, Suhartini claimed not to know. However, the news Suhartini guessed correctly by the Director General of Supervision plan that will come to Batam. "Tomorrow I want to meet Director General of Supervision. It may also be associated with it (Alar supervision of Australia)," guess Suhartini. "What is clear is definitely related to border control," she says.
Related to the location of the arrest of three employees DKP Islands, by Malaysian police at the time, Suhartini, firmly said the arrests were made in Indonesian waters. "The point of the coordinates forget me. That it was our territory," said Suhartini with high tone.
As reported earlier, on Friday (13 / 8) around 21:00 last night, in the waters of Indonesia-Malaysia border, menengang. Indonesian authorities arrested seven Malaysian fishermen suspected of stealing fish in Indonesian waters. But at the same time, the Malaysian authorities also arrested three officers of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (DKP), Riau Islands. The situation between Indonesia and Malaysia were strained after the incident. (For)