the way things are going it would be better to shoot than arrest them, since being a prisoner , kept warm and fed free meals 3 times a day now days amounts to abuse not accepted by international law.
Pirates who launch armed attacks in Indonesian waters should be shot on sight without mercy, Indonesia's navy chief said yesterday.
"There is a legal basis for this. We are merely defending ourselves if they attack first," Antara news agency quoted Admiral Bernard Kent Sondakh as saying.
"If they are caught alive, they would only get, at the most, three months in jail. After that, they go pirating again," he told reporters after presenting special citations to 24 crew members of a Navy ship.
Read that last paragraph again, and you'll discover exactly why Indonesia is such a pirate haven.
And let us not forget, some of these pirates are al-Qaida.