REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BATAM -- Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has arrested three illegal foreign fishing boats in the waters of Riau Islands this week, a ministry official said.

"We arrested the three vessels in the second week of March 2015 during our operations to safeguard the country's fisheries and marine resources," Asep Baharuddin, the director general of the Marine and Fisheries Supervision Affairs of the KKP, said here on Wednesday (11/3).

He said that the countries of origin of the three boats were Thailand (two boats) and Vietnam. They were arrested on different occasions.

The three ships were suspected to have poached fish in the Indonesian waters without proper documents.

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