Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa refused on Tuesday to comment on the incident when
Australian Navy boats allegedly forced a boat carrying undocumented migrants back to Indonesia but reiterated that Indonesia
rejected the so-called “pushing back the boats” policy.
“I am not going to comment on the specific incident… on
the movements of our Navy boats, Australian Navy boats, or the boats carrying
undocumented migrants themselves.
Such a matter is handled by the Coordinating
Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Ministry,” Marty said during the
ministry’s “Annual Press Statement” event in Jakarta.
“But on the push-back policy itself, let me put on the
record our rejection to the policy. Pushing back the boats is not a solution,”
he added.
The East Nusa Tenggara Police said on Monday they had
found 45 undocumented migrants from Africa and the Middle East aboard a boat
floating adrift in the province’s Rote Ndao waters after failing to reach out Australia
territory.
Indonesian Navy spokesman Commodore Untung Surapati also
confirmed that the boat had been pushed back by Australian authorities and said
that the boat had departed from Kendari, Southeast
Sulawesi’s capital.
“There was no information on how the boat managed
to return to Indonesian soil [after being pushed back]. I was only informed
that the immigrants are now being taken care of by the local police and
immigration office,” he said.
The incident came amid severely damaged relations between
Jakarta and Canberra due to the revelation of a “top
secret” document alleging that an Australian intelligence body had tapped the
phones of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and some Cabinet members
in 2009.
Sumber : Jakartapost
Pushing boats back not solution: Marty
Written By Unknown on Wednesday, 15 January 2014 | 21:49
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