Poachers can no longer lurk safely in Indonesian waters. The long abandoned war against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing has been reinstated, fought battle by battle by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti. Under the auspices of the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry, a decree was signed to establish a special anti-illegal fishing unit. The government has destroyed a total of 176 foreign illegal fishing vessels apprehended in areas throughout the archipelago between October 2014 and April 2016, including 63 from Vietnam, 43 from the Philippines, 21 from Thailand, two from Papua New Guinea, one...
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