Apr 19 23:42
RI to seek US technical aid to support patrols in Malacca Strait
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia will seek US technical assistance to support its maritime patrols in the Malacca Strait, a spokesman said.
"We only have maritime patrol airplanes but they have not been equipped with adequate spy devices," Director General of Defence Strategy at the Defence Ministry Maj. Gen. Dadi Susanto said on Wednesday.
Indonesia would make a request for spy devices at the 4th Indonesia-United States Security Dialogue (IUSSD) scheduled for April 23-30, he said.
Dadi, who has been appointed as the head of the Indonesian delegation to the meeting, said Indonesia, along with two other littoral states, namely Malaysia and Singapore, would stick to their respective sovereignty in safeguarding the 500 mile-long strait.
Yet the three countries would not reject technical assistance from stakeholders, such as the US and Japan which had an interest in maintaining security in the strait, he said.
"They (the US and Japan) are users of the Malacca Strait. So, it will be proper if they are concerned about security in the strait by providing technical aid rather than a show of military force," he said.
The most urgent thing needed to safeguard the world`s busiest waterway was maritime patrols, he said.
"We still have a limited number of devices to conduct maritime patrols. The maritime patrol airplanes made by state-owned aircraft maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia still need to be equipped with adequate spy devices. If the US can assist, that will be better," he said.
Indonesia was in the process of setting up radar stations at a number of places along the Malacca Strait. By doing so, integrated patrols by land, air and sea would work optimally, he said.
He said cooperation among Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore in conducting coordinated patrols in the strait had reduced the number of sea crimes by 70 percent.
The coordinated patrols launched since one and a half years ago had been revised by an `eye in the sky` concept, he said without elaborating.(*)
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