Two Indonesian warships are currently patrolling waters near maritime borders with Timor-Leste, where the political and security situation became destabilized after assassination attempts on the president and prime minister, a naval official said.
"Before the violence in Timor-Leste, the two warships had already been conducting the patrols routinely under the codename 'Operation Samor'," Antara news agency quoted chief of the Navy's Eastern Fleet Command Rear Admiral Adi Prabawa as saying on Wednesday in Surabay, the second largest city in Indonesia.
He said the two warships had not been specially deployed because of the recent violence in Timor-Leste and there was also no plan to increase naval strength in the maritime border areas.
Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos Horta was shot in the stomach at his home in Dili on Monday while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped injury in another attack. Horta is now being treated in a hospital in Australia.
"So far there has been no indication of a sea-borne exodus from Timor-Leste to Indonesia," he added.
The command's spokesman, Lt Col Toni Syaiful, added the unrest in Timor-Leste had not had any impact on the situation in areas near Indonesia's maritime borders with Timor-Leste.
Source: Xinhua/Agencies
|
Comment
Tell A Friend
Print Format
Save Article