This handout photo taken on Augand released by the Indonesia Army shows Major General Heri Wiranto (left) meeting with US Captain David Moats during a rollcall with Indonesian and US Army soldiers at the Mulawarman headquarters in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, to kick off the largest-ever joint-training between the armies of the two nations with more than 4,500 soldiers taking part in the Garuda Shield exercise. Indonesian leaders kept quiet about the matter in order to avoid conflict or a diplomatic spat with China, Farhan and two of the other people who spoke to Reuters said. "It (the letter) was a bit threatening because it was the first effort of China's diplomats to push their nine-dash line agenda against our rights under the Law of the Sea," Farhan told Reuters.Ĭhina is Indonesia's biggest trade partner and second-largest source of investment, making it a key part of Indonesia's ambition to become a top-tier economy.
Southeast Asia's biggest nation says the southern end of the South China Sea is its exclusive economic zone under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and named the area as the North Natuna Sea in 2017.Ĭhina objected to the name change and insists the waterway is within its expansive territorial claim in the South China Sea that it marks with a U-shaped "nine-dash line," a boundary found to have no legal basis by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague in 2016.
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