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Provoked by China, Jakarta Backs Away From South China Sea Dispute

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Philip Bowring
Mar 25, 2016
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If Indonesian President Joko Widodo wants to be taken as seriously as he claims in defending Indonesian sea rights as an archipelagic nation, he may need a foreign minister from a culture less accommodating than that in his Foreign Ministry.

The incident took place over the weekend when an Indonesian special task force vessel took command of a fleeing Ch…

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