JAKARTA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Two Indonesian warships are currently
patrolling waters near maritime borders with Timor-Leste, where the political
and security situation became destabilized after assassination attempts on the
president and prime minister, a naval official said.
"Before the violence in Timor-Leste, the two warships had already been
conducting the patrols routinely under the codename 'Operation Samor'," Antara
news agency quoted chief of the Navy's Eastern Fleet Command Rear Admiral Adi
Prabawa as saying on Wednesday in Surabay, the second largest city in Indonesia.
He said the two warships had not been specially deployed because of the
recent violence in Timor-Leste and there was also no plan to increase naval
strength in the maritime border areas.
Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos Horta was shot in the stomach at his home
in Dili on Monday while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped injury in another
attack. Horta is now being treated in a hospital in Australia.
"So far there has been no indication of a sea-borne exodus from Timor-Leste
to Indonesia," he added.
The command's spokesman, Lt Col Toni Syaiful, added the unrest in
Timor-Leste had not had any impact on the situation in areas near Indonesia's
maritime borders with Timor-Leste.