Navy expels 10,000 ships

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)