KSAL Give A Month Of Pushidrosal Careful Underwater Drones In Indonesian Waters

Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Yudo Margono (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Yudo Margono gave one month for the Indonesian Navy Hydrographic and Oceanography Center (Pushidrosal) to examine marine drones or later known as seagliders found in Selayar waters, South Sulawesi.

According to him, Pushidrosal can cooperate with related ministries and institutions, such as the Ministry of National Development Planning and the Ministry of Defense to determine the origin of the slider and the designation of the tool.

"I gave Pak Kapushidros one month to determine or disclose the results so there is certainty," said Yudo in a press conference held at Pushidrosal Building, Ancol, North Jakarta, Monday, January 4.

He admitted that he could not confirm where the seaglider came from. Moreover, he said, the body of the device was not detected with any writing that could determine the country of manufacture or country of origin of the underwater equipment.

"So there is no writing here. We do not believe that what we find like that, is still exactly what the fisherman found, we brought it here," he said.

Although we do not know where the seaglider or marine drone came from, his party has reported this finding to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to communicate the seaglider findings to countries that are known to operate and use the tool. It's just that, until now the results are still nil.

"Until now, no country has claimed who owns this. So that later we will report it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for this discovery," he said.

Yudo also said that Indonesia has not communicated with the countries that manufacture or operate the device. Because he considered, the large number of publications from the media should make the country feel that it has a tool found floating in Indonesian territory. "I'm sure other countries already know who owns it and so on, it must have arrived at a country that has equipment like this," he said.

"Of course we will wait, if there is someone through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who claims this," he added.

While related to this seaglider, Yudo explained that this tool is one of the equipment in the maritime sector that can indeed be used in the defense and military industry, one of which is used as a way for submarines in the deep sea area. "If it is used defense, perhaps the depth data or the ocean layer can be used so that the submarine is not detected," he said.

Seaglider, he continued, does work completely below sea level. This tool will dive to find data, road mapping to various information related to oceanography needed by the user or operator of the tool.

After the data is collected, the seaglider will send it by ascending a few moments to the surface to transmit a signal that can be captured by the detection satellite. Even so, according to Yudo, the data obtained by this tool is also not so confidential, because all data can be accessed on the website provided in connection with this tool.

However, Yudo did not clearly specify which website pages could be accessed to find out the catch of data from the tools that are said to be diving in high water.

Yudo also detailed if this tool was used to find submarine routes. He said, this tool will dive into concentrated waters because the dense sea conditions can prevent the movement of submarines from sonar detection.

Therefore, logically and calculations, the submarine can walk freely without fear of being detected by anyone.

"We are looking for the depth and layer which is thick or not. If it is thick, usually the submarine is not detected by the sonar of ships above water. They can survive through the routes that he sees in the data (that) the depth of the sea water is very thick," he concluded .