Bakamla RI Receives China's Coast Guard

Jakarta (Antara Bali) - The chief of the Indonesian Sea Security Agency (Bakamla RI), Rear Admiral Ari Soedewo, received Deputy Director General of China's Coast Guard, Chen Yide, at the former's office here on Wednesday.

Chen Yide was accompanied by five officials during the courtesy call aimed at increasing cooperative relations between Indonesia and China, and in this case between Bakamla RI and China's Coast Guard, especially in the area of law enforcement in the sea.

Important points conveyed by the China's Coast Guard in the meeting included a memorandum of understanding as a future form of cooperation, a plan to set up a special communication link for agencies involved in law enforcement in the sea as a form of integration of coordinated communication and exchange of visits between the two countries' agencies.

"As a form of cooperation, China's Coast Guard plans to invite Indonesian officials to China," Chen Yide said.

Bakamla RI hailed the cooperation plan to be established between the two agencies.

"Bakamla RI certainly welcomes the cooperation plan offered by China's Coast Guard but internal meetings were still to be held and the foreign minister and the coordinating minister for political, security and legal affairs also need to be informed about it to make its implementation possible in the future," Ari Soedewo said.

At the meeting, China's Coast Guard hoped it could continue its  multilateral cooperation with Indonesia under the framework of ASEAN Regional Forum and Heads of Asian Coast Guard Agencies Meeting (HACGAM).

The meeting concluded with an exchange of souvenirs. (WDY)