{"id":50659,"date":"2024-10-24T03:01:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/indonesian-coast-guard-quotdrives-outquot-chinese-cutter-shadowing-seismic-ship\/50659\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T03:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T00:01:54","slug":"indonesian-coast-guard-quotdrives-outquot-chinese-cutter-shadowing-seismic-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/indonesian-coast-guard-quotdrives-outquot-chinese-cutter-shadowing-seismic-ship\/50659\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian Coast Guard &amp;quot;Drives Out&amp;quot; Chinese Cutter Shadowing Seismic Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Indonesia&#039;s coast guard &quot;drove out&quot; a China Coast Guard cutter that was shadowing a survey vessel in Indonesian waters of the South China Sea. On Tuesday, the Chinese vessel was back again in the same spot, according to maritime security expert Ray Powell.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cutter <em>CCG 5402<\/em> was closely shadowing an Indonesian-chartered survey ship, the Norwegian-flagged <em>Geo Coral,<\/em> which was driving a racetrack course at an oil prospect&nbsp;off the Natuna Islands. In response, Baklama patrol ship KN <em>Tanjung Datu 301 <\/em>and Indonesian Navy patrol boat KRI <em>Sutedi Senaputra 378<\/em> arrived to escort the <em>Geo Coral <\/em>until the Chinese vessel exited the area Monday night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">Bakamla Usir Kapal Coast Guard China di Laut Natuna<\/p>\n<p>Pranata Humas Ahli Muda Kapten Bakamla, Yuhanes Antara menyebut Bakamla RI akan terus melakukan patroli dan pemantauan intensif di wilayah perairan Natuna Utara untuk menjaga kedaulatan dan hak berdaulat Indonesia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fXhpQZjiRM\">pic.twitter.com\/fXhpQZjiRM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; detikcom (@detikcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/detikcom\/status\/1848907193980240031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was far from the first instance: China Coast Guard regularly operates in the Indonesian exclusive economic zone, deploying vessels to loiter near offshore oil and gas concessions. <em>CCG 5402<\/em> is just one element of a rotational force and had recently arrived to relieve the Chinese cutter <em>CCG 5302<\/em>, which had been trailing <em>Geo Coral<\/em> since the 17th, according to Powell. AIS data shows that <em>CCG 5402 <\/em>returned to the Indonesian EEZ as soon as the Baklama presence departed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China claims the overwhelming majority of the South China Sea as its own, including parts of the Indonesian EEZ, a thousand miles away from the Chinese mainland. The jurisdictional conflict between China and the Philippines has a higher public profile, but Indonesia has also had to confront Chinese government vessels operating in its waters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a video of the radio exchange between Baklama and the <em>CCG 5402<\/em>, the Chinese vessel&#039;s crew can be heard repeating the message &quot;China has indisputable sovereignty over the islands of the South China Sea and adjacent waters.&quot;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Geo Coral is a Norwegian-owned geophysical vessel flagged in Norway. She is operating under charter to PT Pertamina, Indonesia&#039;s state-owned oil company, to conduct a 3D seismic survey off the Natuna Islands. &quot;Pertamina East Natuna is focusing on oil and gas exploration activities in the East Natuna Working Area, which has great potential to contribute to national energy security,&quot; said a Pertamina spokesman on Tuesday.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Indonesia&#039;s coast guard &quot;drove out&quot; a China Coast Guard cutter that was shadowing a survey vessel in Indonesian waters of the South China Sea. On Tuesday, the Chinese vessel was back again in the same spot, according to maritime security expert Ray Powell.&nbsp; The cutter CCG 5402 was closely shadowing an Indonesian-chartered survey &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[23239,718,777,1579,2559,1580,701,23240,4880,23241,1070],"class_list":["post-50659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-ampquotdrives","tag-ccg","tag-chinese","tag-coast","tag-cutter","tag-guard","tag-indonesian","tag-outampquot","tag-seismic","tag-shadowing","tag-ship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/50660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}