The Papua New Guinea Defence Force says it’s still trying to ascertain details about an incident involving one of its patrol boats and five Indonesian fishermen who went missing in PNG waters. The Indonesian navy has intensified sea patrols off Merauke, near the PNG border, after ten fishermen were reportedly intercepted by a PNG Defence…
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — PT Pertamina will put into operation a world’s largest most sophisticated liquified petroleum gas (LPG) tanker with a capacity of 50,000 tons. Pertamina Gas I is the type of “very large gas carrier” (VLGC), Hanung Budya, the marketing director of the state energy company said. Pertamina Gas I, to start operation on…
Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. On New Year’s day, 45 asylum seekers in a ramshackle wooden boat slid ashore on a small island off the Australian city of Darwin. Four others had been swept overboard that morning in rough seas and were believed dead. The survivors, from Africa and the Middle East, stumbled onto the beach,…
The Indonesian Navy has intensified patrols in the waters off Merauke bordering Papua New Guinea (PNG) after five fishermen who were forced by the PNG Navy to swim ashore went missing. “We are deploying 25 marines from the Eastern Fleet to strengthen 12 marines from the local naval base for routine patrols,” the XI/Merauka Main…