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Jokowi’s Tough New Maritime Policy Takes Shape

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Dec 09, 2014
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The news that Indonesian authorities captured three Vietnamese fishing boats in Indonesian waters last week and later sank them puts new teeth into President Joko Widodo’ s vow, enunciated at his Inaugural address and again in mid-November, that he intends to make his nation into a regional maritime power.

On Dec.5, officials sank the three Vietnamese ve…

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