Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/15
By: Jay Chou, Kuo Chih-hsuan and William Yen
Jakarta, April 15 (CNA) A Taiwan registered fishing vessel was stopped and detained by
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Indonesian authorities on suspicion of incorrect documents while traveling through the Strait of Malacca in the Southeast Asian country’s territorial waters Sunday.
The Da Wei No. 13, based in Donggang, Pingtung County, was detained and investigated by Indonesian authorities, the country’s customs officials said.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, immediately upon receiving information of the case, has informed the country’s representative office in Indonesia to look into the matter and to make sure the ship’s crew members are safe and properly treated, the ministry’s spokesman Andrew Lee (李憲章) said.
Earlier, a staff member of a fishermen organization’s radio station based in Pingtung claimed that the vessel was intercepted by the Indonesian military. [FULL STORY]
