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Wed, 03/25/2009 - 08:18
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S SULAWESI FISHERMEN ASK A'LIA TO PAY FOR BURNED BOATS
Jakarta, March 24 (ANTARA) - Some 20 fishermen and non-governmental organization (NGO) activists from Indonesia's province of South Sulawesi staged a demonstration outside the Australian Embassy here Tuesday demanding compensation for fishing boats Australian authorities had burned.
"We ask for compensation for our fishing boats Australia has burned," Haeruddin, one of the fishermen, told the press here.
He said Australian authorities had confiscated and torched his boat in the southern part of Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) provincial waters.
When the incident happened, his boat was still tens of miles away from the Indonesia-Australia sea border, Haeruddin said.
"To my surprise, an Australian marine patrol boat stopped me in my boat. I had been in the waters before but I was never stopped," he said.
He said following his arrest, the Australian authorities jailed him for a month in Darwin, North Australia.
After his release from detention, however, the Australian government did not compensate him for his burned boat, Haerudin said, adding that an average fisherman's boat cost about Rp250 million.
The demonstrators on the occasion carried banners conveying the messages: "The people ask the Australian government to be responsible", and "Indonesia must not keep quiet."
"We ask for compensation for our fishing boats Australia has burned," Haeruddin, one of the fishermen, told the press here.
He said Australian authorities had confiscated and torched his boat in the southern part of Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) provincial waters.
When the incident happened, his boat was still tens of miles away from the Indonesia-Australia sea border, Haeruddin said.
"To my surprise, an Australian marine patrol boat stopped me in my boat. I had been in the waters before but I was never stopped," he said.
He said following his arrest, the Australian authorities jailed him for a month in Darwin, North Australia.
After his release from detention, however, the Australian government did not compensate him for his burned boat, Haerudin said, adding that an average fisherman's boat cost about Rp250 million.
The demonstrators on the occasion carried banners conveying the messages: "The people ask the Australian government to be responsible", and "Indonesia must not keep quiet."
