Jamal Md Yunos became notorious last year for being the public face of the Malay rights “red shirt” movement, but he’s making headlines for a significantly reason today: as the UMNO division chief for Sungai Besar, Selangor, Jamal is calling for Wisma Putra to put a stop to Indonesian seziures of local fishing boats in the Straits of Malacca.
Speaking to Bernama, Jamal claims that in the first three months of 2016 alone, Indonesian maritime authorities have held up and confiscated seven fishing vessels from Malaysia, particularly from jetties in Selangor.
Of course, what the red shirt leader delicately opted to leave out of his demands was that those Malaysian fishing boats were stopped by Indonesian authorities, in Indonesian waters.
Regardless, when handing a memorandum on the issue on behalf of the Sekinchan Fishermen and Fishmongers Welfare Association to Wisma Putra today, Jamal expressed his deep disappointment over the Indonesian government’s decision to seize boats and arrest crewmembers without giving them an avenue to defend themselves in a court of law.
He might want to organise a rally for that.
