Indonesia flags unease over Beijing’s South China Sea actions in comments from maritime security chief, army staff college

The chief of Indonesia’s Maritime Security Agency has warned that China’s new coastguard law has heightened the risk of a “spillover conflict” into Indonesia’s territorial waters around the Natuna Islands, the site of past sea skirmishes between the two countries.“With China becoming more assertive in the South China Sea, and considering the responses from major countries with interests in those waters, there is a risk of conflict escalation,” Vice-Admiral Aan Kurnia, the head of the agency,…