Illegal Fishing Vessels are Destroyed by Prosecutors and Bengkalis Air Task

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BENGKALIS - The Public Prosecutor (Prosecutor) of the Attorney General's Office together with the Bengkalis Police Aquatic Police Unit, destroyed a unit of illegal fishing motor boats from Malaysia, Wednesday 11 September 2019.

Destruction of evidence (BB) which already has a permanent law was destroyed by burning and finally allowed to sink in the waters of the Bengkalis Strait precisely in front of the Bengkalis Polair River Polair Post.

In addition to one unit of ship numbered JHF 2250 B, the net and equipment were also destroyed.

Present witnessed during the annihilation was the Head of the General Crimes Section (Kasi Pidum) Iwan Roy Charles, SH, Head of the Evidence and Seizure Management Section, Oki Winarta, SH as well as a number of staff at the Bengkalis Kejid Pidum accompanied by the Head of the Law Enforcement Unit (Kanak) (Gakkum) Bengkalis Polair Police, Ipda Dodi Ripo and Satpolair staff.

"It has permanent legal force so that this destruction can be carried out. The ship and its contents were destroyed by burning in the middle of the sea," said the Head of Management of Evidence and Seizure of Oki Winarta SH, when accompanied by Kasi Pidum, Iwan Roy Charles and Kanit Gakkum Ipda Dodi Ripo after title of extermination.

While Kanda Gakkum Polair Ipda Dodi Ripo added that the evidence destroyed was a case of illegal fishing in the Malacca Straits of Indonesian Waters, which the security forces secured in July 2019.

At that time, Pol Air officers secured a Malaysian citizen and one Indonesian from Bengkalis Atan bin Aris (53) and Muhammad Hafiz Bin Mohd Ali (26), residents of Jalan Trit Laut Java Trench 84150 Muar, Malaysia who were conducting fishing using a boat Malaysian flagged.

Ripo explained, the officers found a unit of Malaysian flagged vessel was fishing fish at the coordinate point 01'39'35'23 "N, 102 '33'19'76" E and had entered the territorial waters of Indonesia.

This fish theft act, the perpetrators were charged with Article 93 paragraph (2) of the Republic of Indonesia Law No. 45/2009 concerning amendments to the Republic of Indonesia Law No. 31/2004 concerning Fisheries Jo Article 55 paragraph (1) to 1 Criminal K.U.H,P ***