Personnel from the Japan Coast Guard have shared some of their security expertise with their Indonesian counterparts. They held a training session in Jakarta that focused on ways to restrain suspects on vessels.
The initiative is part of a program by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
On Thursday, 12 Indonesian participants took a final test to assess the skills they learned. They demonstrated various techniques for subduing crew on ships. All of them passed.
Muhammad Kurnianto Kuntjoro, an official of Indonesia’s maritime security agency, said the training will be useful for his colleagues, especially in situations where they have to board ships to make arrests for violations.
Tanaka Yasunori, an official of the Japan Coast Guard, noted that the sea lanes through the Malacca and Singapore straits are used by a lot of ships with connections to Japan. He said improving the capabilities of Indonesia’s maritime law enforcement agencies is beneficial for Japan, too.
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago nation and shares a key sea lane with several other countries. The techniques learned at the session conducted by the Japan Coast Guard will be incorporated into training for other members of the country’s maritime security agency.
