HANOI: Eight Indonesians apprehended last week have confessed to hijacking a Malaysian oil tanker, a Vietnamese official said yesterday. Col Doan Bao Quyet, political commissar of Vietnam Coast Guard Region 4 in the southern province of Kien Giang, said the 19 to 61, initially said they encountered an accident at sea while fishing when they arrived Tho Chu island off Vietnam's southern coast on Friday. But after questioning with the images and information provided by Malaysian authorities, they confessed that they were responsible for hijacking the oil tanker earlier this month. The tanker MT Orkim Harmony was car- rying 7.5 million litres of gasoline worth 21 million ringgit(189 million baht) on its way to Kuantan in Malaysia when communications were lost with it on June 11