Widodo led a high-level delegation including the foreign minister and armed forces chief to the Natuna Islands in the South China Sea, arriving at a navy base before being escorted to the warship as fighter jets buzzed overhead and military vessels performed manoeuvres off the coast.
At a meeting of ministers and security force chiefs on the warship, which last week detained a Chinese trawler and its crew in Indonesian waters, the president ordered defences around the Natunas to be stepped up.
"I asked the military and the maritime security agency to better guard the seas," he said. A picture released by the government showed Widodo standing next to a gun turret on deck, flanked by the military chief and ministers.
Before the trip, Security Minister Luhut Panjaitan said it was aimed at sending a "clear message" that Indonesia was "very serious in its effort to protect its sovereignty".
Beijing asserts sovereignty over almost the entire strategically important South China Sea, and regional tensions are mounting due to Chinese island building and ahead of a UN-backed tribunal`s ruling on a Philippine challenge to China`s claims...
[AFP/zeenews.india.com]
23/6/16
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