November 2012 Thanks to increased international naval presence and the placing of armed guards aboard merchant vessels, the Indian Ocean has seen a recent decline in piracy. However, in reality, this decline is merely a decline in the symptoms of a much deeper problem. In the early 1990’s, Somalia was torn apart by a civil […]
Piracy and Illegal Fishing
Indonesia will host the Asia-Pacific regional conference, held by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), and naval crime will be the focus of the discussion. The conference is scheduled to last four days, and according to Chairman of the ITF’s Asia-Pacific region, Hanafi Rustandi, the subject is so important that it has attracted the attention of the […]