And of course all of them want to get more and bigger ships than their 'rivals'. That contestic behaviour is something really stupid and contraproductive.
I understand they have overlapping roles and responsabilities, but at this moment BAKAMLA needs urgently larger and better armed ships in Laut Natuna Utara.
Agree, off course it's stupid and counterproductive. The thing is all those 'maritime' agencies are fighting more or less same turf, the jurisdiction on commercial activities in the coastal and teritorial sea.
There's a lot of commercial activities that need to be regulated and control in the sea. The distribution and coordination of Jurisdiction despite all the talk of current administration for maritime focus is not properly solved.
The idea of Bakamla as Indonesian Coast Guard it self is being the agency that handle non miltary security of commercial activities in the Indonesian Teritorial and EEZ waters. That's big scope, that all other current maritime agencies patrol duties like Fisheries, Custom, SAR and Police should be under Bakamla coordination.
Off course those agencies try to fight, and maintain their patrolling jurisdiction. After all that's the biggest 'pie' on their activities.
It can only be solve if the political will of current administration really want to stream line maritime jurisdiction and bueracracy. That's what I still don't see happen yet.
As for Bakamla/Coast Guard overlapping jurisdiction with the Navy, in my opinion it is should be more clear cut. Coast Guard handle non military maritime security, while the Navy handle the Military challenge.
That's why China send it's Coast Guard on handling fisheries dispute in SCS and not PLAN. On that context all patrol boats from the Navy should be given to coast guard, as they are not suitable for military duties and challenge anyway.
TNI-AL should only operate Corvettes as the smallest vessels on their inventory. They should only working with proper warships and not small patrol boats anymore. However they still building those 44 m coastal patrol boats, which only good for patrolling short range from their base. What can those patrol boats can do on modern naval challenge ? Nothing..thus why Navy still adamant to have it ?
All those because Navy still doesn't want to relinquish coastal patrol duties, because it's very "lucrative". In sense the Navy still want to have jurisdiction on commercial sea security. Something that should be handle by Coast Guard.
