Navy expels 10,000 ships

SURABAYA, East Java: The Navy has expelled more than 10,000 ships this year for illegally anchoring in Indonesian territorial waters.

"Of those, 255 were foreign battleships, 9,885 were commercial ships or tankers and 128 were ships from social communist countries," Navy spokesman Commodore Muallimin Santoso MZ told journalists here yesterday.

"This shows that the navy is never asleep," he said as quoted by Antara. "We will never compromise with any sort of violations on our seas." (mds)