Indonesia Acts as 'The Bigger Person' in South China Sea Conflict

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - The South China Sea conflict, has carried with it some international repercussion which inevitably involved countries situated in the South East Asian region. 

The situation exacerbated following reports of China's outcry, directly protesting the United States confident gesture of air patrolling above the conflicting region.

As the biggest country in the South East Asian region, Indonesia attempts to play a neutral role by appeasing all conflicting parties in the South China Sea commotion. 

Indonesian Minister of Defence, Ryamizard Ryacudu has just met with a number of leading figures of ASEAN in Singapore and he has determinedly applied such neutral gesture to help conflicting nations sort out the issue.

"We have a new concept to address South China Sea conflict. We are inviting all conflicting nations to reconsider their bittersweet relations with each other and patrol together. No, not security patrol, not that rigid. It will be a peace patrol," Minister Ryamizard shared on Wednesday 3 June 2015.

Such patrol will function as a reminder for all involving parties to continue maintain peaceful relations between one another and that for the conflict to be prevented from deteriorating into unwanted large-scale warfare.

"Peace patrol is one small yet effective method to contain each involving party’s rage from exacerbating the conflict. We need to use soft diplomacy not a hard or misleading one because we don’t want a big war right there, it would truly be a mess," he added. (Akp/Tnt)