New boss for MMEA

Zulkifili bin Abu Bakar has been sworn in as the head of the agency.

Malaysia’s Coast Guard Gets New Chief

Malaysia’s Coast Guard has appointed a new chief as the agency undergoes modernization to help the country better confront a range of maritime challenges.

Malaysia’s equivalent of a coast guard, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), was founded back in November 2005, and, as I have noted before, the country was one of the first among the Southeast Asian states to have such an agency (See: “Assessing Malaysia’s Coast Guard in ASEAN Perspective”).

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Source: thediplomat.com