Indonesia appears ready to flex its diplomatic, if not its maritime, muscle in dealings with China over a recent incident involving a Chinese coastguard vessel and an Indonesian patrol boat in the vicinity of Indonesia’s Natuna Islands in the South China Sea. The arrest of a Chinese fishing vessel that Indonesia claims was fishing illegally in Indonesian territorial waters sparked a series of events that have exposed the underbelly of Indonesia’s national maritime sensitivity and have the potential to sour China’s key partnership in Southeast Asia.
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The EAF Editorial Group is comprised of Peter Drysdale, Shiro Armstrong, Ben Ascione, Ryan Manuel and Jillian Mowbray-Tsutsumi and is located in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.
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