Observer: TNI Should Investigate Sandi Glider On Selayar, It Is Safe To Suspect That Indonesia Is The Target Of Surveillance

Findings of gliders in Selayar waters (Source: Special)

JAKARTA - Political, defense and security observer at Muhammadiyah University, Arqam Azikin said that the investigation into the message code in the series of glider findings in Indonesian waters must be carried out quickly. Previously, there were a number of glider findings, including the last one around Selayar waters.

"If there is no TNI stamp on the object, it means that the object is confirmed to have an institution from outside our country, and a quick work is needed to investigate the contents of the" message code "in the series of tools," said Arqam in Makassar, Monday, January 4.

Arqam said that it was very appropriate that the TNI Commander immediately ordered his staff to bring the missile-like device down to the TNI Headquarters to investigate the object further.

Regarding the suspicion that the object belonged to China or the United States (US), Arqam said that is where the TNI needs to investigate precisely in clarifying the initial data on the object.

This is because the US has satellite monitors in eastern Indonesia and China has an interest in the turmoil in the South China Sea with the US.

"Objects belonging to institutions from outside our country, must be investigated in depth with several questions, why did they enter the waters of Selayar? Have they been detected by the Navy's radar?" he said.

He said that if the "security radar" of the Indonesian sea area is not detected, it means that it has shown the vulnerability and danger of "spy infiltration" using "marine drones" to enter Indonesian waters.

Suspicious feature

According to him, with the existing characteristics of the object, it should be suspected that there was an "infiltration of reconnaissance operations" around Indonesian territorial waters, to record the situation, natural resources, and the position of intense guarding forces carried out by the Indonesian Navy.

"This is the third time this has been found in our territorial waters, so all elite Navy troops should increase their vigilance in counteracting the threat of national defense in strategic locations that are prone to 'reconnaissance operations' in the sea area from any party," he said.

So it is fitting for the Minister of Defense Prabowo Subianto to immediately go to Commission I of the Indonesian Parliament to explain that the "sea drone" polemic so as not to spread in the community with different perceptions.

Meanwhile, regarding the response to the findings from the Makassar Regional Military Command VI, Kadispen Lantamal Laut Captain (KH) Suparman Sulo said that everything had been submitted to the Navy Headquarters to provide information.