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RI, M`SIAN ARMIES TO INVESTIGATE REMOVAL OF BOUNDARY MARKERS
Jakarta, Jan 30 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian and Malaysian armies will soon coordinate to investigate the removal of dozens of boundary markers along the two countries' common borders presumbly by Malaysian oil palm planters.
"They are not gone but are merely moved and we will put them back in their original places. However it will not be an easy job because their number is big while the Indonesian-Malaysian border is is some 2,004 kilometers long," Indonesian Army Chief of Staff General Agustadi Sasongko Purnomo said here on Friday.
He said after leading an army leadership meeting that all border problems between the two countries were dealt with at the General Border Committee (GBC) forum.
"We will discuss the problem with the Malaysian army. After all, we are not able to conduct intensive monitoring to cover the 2,004 kilometer-long border," he said.
Earlier the chief of the 1221 Alambhana Wanawwai military resoort, Col Nukman Kasodi, said tens of boundary markers on the border between Indonesia and Malaysia had gone as a result of Malaysian oilpalm developers' activity.
He said some of the boundary markers in the Indonesian district of Kapuas Hulu in West Kalimantan had vanished after Malaysian oilpalm developers built a two-kilometer long road there.
"The case was discovered based on a field monitoring around two weeks ago," he said.
Nukman said the markers had to be set up again because they marked the two countries' border. "Although the markers are gone the position of the borderline remains," he said.
He said around 50 boundary markers had gone spreading in five districts that borders with Malaysian state of Sarawak.
He said most of the markers that were gone were Type D. There are four types of boundary markers. Type A markers are planted 200 to 300 kilometers from each other while Type B around 10 kilomter from each other, Type C around one kilometer and Type D 100 to 200 meters from each other.
"The markers are spreading along the 1,004 kilometer long border between Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and Malaysian state of Sarawak.
"They are not gone but are merely moved and we will put them back in their original places. However it will not be an easy job because their number is big while the Indonesian-Malaysian border is is some 2,004 kilometers long," Indonesian Army Chief of Staff General Agustadi Sasongko Purnomo said here on Friday.
He said after leading an army leadership meeting that all border problems between the two countries were dealt with at the General Border Committee (GBC) forum.
"We will discuss the problem with the Malaysian army. After all, we are not able to conduct intensive monitoring to cover the 2,004 kilometer-long border," he said.
Earlier the chief of the 1221 Alambhana Wanawwai military resoort, Col Nukman Kasodi, said tens of boundary markers on the border between Indonesia and Malaysia had gone as a result of Malaysian oilpalm developers' activity.
He said some of the boundary markers in the Indonesian district of Kapuas Hulu in West Kalimantan had vanished after Malaysian oilpalm developers built a two-kilometer long road there.
"The case was discovered based on a field monitoring around two weeks ago," he said.
Nukman said the markers had to be set up again because they marked the two countries' border. "Although the markers are gone the position of the borderline remains," he said.
He said around 50 boundary markers had gone spreading in five districts that borders with Malaysian state of Sarawak.
He said most of the markers that were gone were Type D. There are four types of boundary markers. Type A markers are planted 200 to 300 kilometers from each other while Type B around 10 kilomter from each other, Type C around one kilometer and Type D 100 to 200 meters from each other.
"The markers are spreading along the 1,004 kilometer long border between Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and Malaysian state of Sarawak.
