Indonesia has called on China to alter a marking on its maps delineating its maritime territorial claims, while confirming plans to build a new naval base on islands in the South China Sea.
Susi Pudjiastuti, the tattoo-sporting minister of maritime affairs and fisheries, told the Financial Times that China should alter the notorious “nine-dash line” which outlines Beijing’s claim to almost all of the South China Sea and intersects with Indonesia’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone around the Natuna islands.
“They say they don’t mind, they don’t want to insist on claiming [the area of intersection],” she said. “But we also want them to put changed corrections on their map.”
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