"The Navy is ready to deploy its ships now stationed in the Indonesian-Malaysian borders in Nunukan district, if an exodus of Indonesian workers from Sabah takes place," Commodore Arie Soedewo, Indonesia's eastern fleet maritime task force commander, said here on Wednesday.
However, he said, the latest conditions in Sabah have relatively returned to normal and did not affect Indonesian workers in the Malaysian state.
Although the conditions are now conducive, the Navy will remain alert to over the possibility of the worsening of the situation where the navy should take steps to safeguard the Indonesians who are going home.
He said that the Navy has placed six warships of various types with the latest weaponry system to guard the border areas.
The standoff between Malaysian security forces and armed Filipinos erupted in violence on March 1, killing two Malaysian police officers and 12 members of self-style Sulu Sultanate of the Philippines as Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak declared his patience had run out, Reuters reported last week.
The group, numbering about 180, say they are descendants of the sultanate of Sulu in the southern Philippines, which ruled parts of northern Borneo for centuries. (*/T007)
: Nyoman Budhiana
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