Jakarta (ANTARA News) - An international law professor said the results of the meeting between Indonesia and Malaysia in Kinabalu on Monday had not shown the government`s resoluteness.

"As was predicted, the results of the Kinabalu meeting did not produce something significant for Indonesia. Our representatives still showed tolerance for Malaysia on account of its position as a neighbor and a nation of the same racial stock. There was no sign of resoluteness and directness in Indonesia`s stance," Prof Hikmahanto of the University of Indonesia said in a press statement received here on Tuesday.

He said the meeting did not produce a settlement as the Indonesian people had hoped for.

The meeting would only have been significant if it met President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono`s wish conveyed in his recent speech at the Defense Forces Headquarters for a speedy settlement and conclusion of the border disputes with Malaysia.

Hikmahanto also criticized as concerning the country`s failure in asking Malaysia to apologize with regard to the arrest of three Indonesian fisheries officers by Malaysian marine police in Indonesian waters near Bintan Island recently and the rude treatment the officers had received during interrogation by Malaysian authorities.

In the Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) meeting in Kinabalu Indonesia and Malaysia agreed to settle their sea border disputes immediately and to that end they had scheduled to hold four meetings until December 2010.

"The Indonesian and Malaysian foreign ministers would meet again on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on the third week of September 2010 and negotiations would also be carried out at a technical level on October 11-12, 2010 in Malaysia and on November 23-24, 2010 in Indonesia," Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa said at a joint press conference with his Malaysian counterpart Anifah Aman in Kota Kinabalu on Monday.

"There will be intensive meetings on the settlement of the sea border disputes," he said.
"We are quite satisfied with the results of the meeting in Kota Kinabalu because it produced a schedule for four meetings to speed up the settlement of the disputes on the sea border between Indonesia and Malaysia in the Malacca Strait, the Singapore Strait, the South China Sea and the Sulawesi Strait," he said.

The two countries also agreed in the meeting to implement a new standard operating procedure to avoid the recurrence of the incident in Bintan waters. (*)

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