Nine of the 17 crew members aboard MV Emeline cargo vessel, which sunk off the Selayar Islands, South Sulawesi, as of Thursday remained stranded out on the rough seas. Search and rescue teams have not been able to reach and evacuate them. Hamsidar, head of the Makassar office of the National Search and Rescue…
Bitung, North Sulawesi (ANTARA News) – Indonesian warship KRI Makassar-590 has left for Mindanao, the Philippines with 2,000 tons of rice for the victims of typhoon Bopha that swept through the southern Philippine area on December 4, 2012. Speaking after dispatching the ship from Bitung port on Friday, North Sulawesi Governor Sinyo H Sarudajang…
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SHANGHAI – Indonesia enhances the cooperation on joint exercise with China as an effort to expand military and defense cooperation between both countries. The cooperation not only on officer exchange form but also on joint military excercise. “Indonesia and China have conducted joint exercise between Indonesian Army and Chinese Special Forces,” Vice Minister of…
No one was hurt when the periscope on USS Jacksonville (SSN 699), a Los Angeles-class submarine, struck a vessel while operating in the Arabian Gulf Jan. 10 at approximately 5 a.m. local time. Jacksonville surfaced from periscope depth to ascertain if there was any damage to the unidentified vessel. The vessel continued on a…