{"id":7392,"date":"2020-04-03T19:46:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7392"},"modified":"2020-04-03T19:46:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:16:50","slug":"natuna-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/natuna-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Natuna island"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: International<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.astroawani.com\/2016-02\/61455505160_Natuna.jpg\" alt=\"The Natuna Islands: Malaysian in geography, Indonesian in ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 China has sparked a major maritime confrontation with Indonesia near the South China Sea with dozens of Chinese fishing vessels, along with a coast guard escort, entering waters off the Natuna Islands, which are within Indonesia\u2019s exclusive economic zone but are also claimed by China.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The<strong> Natuna Regency is an archipelago<\/strong> of 272 islands located in the south part of the South China Sea<strong> in the Natuna Sea.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/quizdelandforms-111019091601-phpapp01\/95\/quiz-about-landforms-22-728.jpg?cb=1319016768\" alt=\"Quiz about landforms\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is part of the larger Tudjuh Archipelago, off the northwest coast of Borneo.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Administratively, the islands constitute a regency within the Riau Islands Province of Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><b>Maritime administration and Chinese claim:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Indonesia\u2019s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of Natuna is slightly overlapped by China\u2019s widely disputed South China Sea claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Indonesia\u2019s EEZ extends 200 nautical miles (370 km) from its shores, which around Natuna means it is slightly intersected by China\u2019s Nine-Dash Line, defining its widely disputed claim to most of the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: International Why in news? \u2022 China has sparked a major maritime confrontation with Indonesia near the South China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7393,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions\/7393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}