[506trooper]

I was stationed in Indonesia 30+ years ago...one of my parting gifts was a modern boarding cutlass (circa 1970), or should I say anti-boarding cutlass; really a nice piece, basket, curved blade and super balance. Piracy has been a problem down there for many decades, but I find it appalling that no one seems willing to fight back

[franksolich]

Vietnamese fleeing the paradise of the workers and peasants used to tell me their greatest fear, when on the water, was attacks by, apparently, Indonesian or Malayan pirates.

Are such pirates outlawed by these countries, or are they tolerated. Where would they go to port, to replenish and refurbish, before going out again?