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Lloyd Jones

Hotel taken over to detain illegal Indonesian fishers

The Frontier Hotel in Darwin is housing foreign nationals charged with fishing in Australian waters. (Lloyd Jones/AAP PHOTOS)

A surge in the number of Indonesians caught fishing illegally in Australia's northern waters has forced authorities to take over a city hotel to house them ahead of their court cases. 

The makeshift detention centre is in Darwin's inner city Frontier Hotel, which is closed to the public and guarded by uniformed employees of service provider MTC.  

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