JAKARTA ---More than a dozen Acehnese fishermen have returned homeafter being detained for almost three months in Myanmar over allegations ofillegal poaching, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry has announced. Ministry officials completed the repatriationof 14 fishermen who worked on the Bintang Jasa fishing vesseland handed them over to actingAceh governor Nova Iriansyah on Wednesday. They wereheld for two months and 17 days in Kawthaung township, on the southernmost tip of Myanmarjust off the Andaman Sea, after beingaccused of illegally fishing in the country'swaters, IndonesianAmbassador to MyanmarIza Fadrisaid. A team from theembassy in Yangon, which is a 38-hour drive from ...
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