Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Islamic Development Bank is funding the procurement of three new patrol boats for Indonesia`s Customs Office (DJBC) to enable the office to intensify its patrols in the country`s waters.
"With the small patrol boats it now has, DJBC often has difficulty chasing smugglers in eastern and western Indonesia waters where the waves often reach a height of five meters," the head of facilities and operations of the DJBC`s directorate for investigation, Achmad Budiyanto, said on the DJBC`s official website on Monday.
"It is now time for the Customs Office to have wide-bodied patrol boats with a length of 38 meters that can sail from island to island and brave high sea waves," he added.
State-owned ship-builder PT PAL had won the international tender held for the procurement of the patrol boats for DJBC, he said.
He said construction of the new boats would be completed in February next year.
DJBC now only had a total of 207 patrol boats of five types. he added.
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