The West Papuan Council of Churches says Kiwi hostage Phillip Mehrtens' life is in danger if negotiations do not take place with the West Papua Liberation Army (TPNPB).
China says all of the South China Sea belongs to it and presses its claims with a huge deployment of coast guard and fishing boats as far as 1,500km off its coastline, while Indonesia says the planned exercise is about strengthening "ASEAN centrality".
The fifth president of Indonesia, Megawati Soekarnoputri, inaugurated a state warship, KRI Bung Karno-369, at the Navy's Military Sealift Command Pier .
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