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Like Chicken in a Sea of Signals

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KRIS R MADA and EDNA C PATTISINA
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Redi, 10, and Khairil store their boat on Ayam Island in Anambas, Riau Islands. Redi and his two siblings do not go to school, because reaching the nearest school takes two hours by boat and two days on foot. Redi and his family, the only residents of this outer island in the South China Sea, have no vehicle except for their boat.

The Indonesian Navy post on the island of Mangkai, part of Anambas Islands in the Riau archipelago, is guarded only by “hand and foot”. Communication is possibly only by radio and mobile phone. However, if the rain falls, such communications devices can hardly function due to weak signals. The personnel stationed here do not even have boats, let alone patrol vessels.

Communication is crucial in maritime security operations, especially in such outermost islands of the Republic of Indonesia, which are directly adjacent to Malaysia and the South China Sea.

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