Mengapa nelayan ditangkap di perbatasan?

On January 15, 2012, in Bahasa Indonesia, Maritime Boundaries, UNCLOS, by Admin Borders Studies

Jika batas antarnegara sudah jelas, tidak sulit memahami mengapa ada nelayan yang ditangkap di kawasan perbatasan. Bisa dipastikan ini terjadi karena melanggar batas. Bagaimana jika di batas maritim belum ditetapkan, mengapa ada nelayan ditangkap dengan tuduhan melanggar batas maritim? Berikut ilustrasinya.


 

Predicting Indonesia’s maritime boundaries

On December 22, 2011, in Maritime Boundaries, Opinion, Publication, by Admin Borders Studies

I Made Andi Arsana, Yogyakarta | Opinion in the Jakarta Post | Thu, 12/22/2011 10:57 AM

Earlier this month, a television program, Mata Najwa, aired an investigative program entitled “The Borders”. One can easily see after watching the program that border issues remain one of the most important problems in Indonesia, the solution of which should be prioritized. We may live in a borderless world but borders, in fact, do matter and still dictate the relationships between countries.
 

I Made Andi Arsana, Yogyakarta | Opinion in the Jakarta Post | Wed, 12/14/2011 8:43 AM

On the day Indonesia gained its independence from the Netherlands, its territory and jurisdiction were less than what we see today, especially for the maritime area. The maritime area between Kalimantan and Java, for example, was considered as high seas (free seas) where foreign vessels could sail freely.

At that time, Indonesia inherited law regarding maritime area from the colonial power, the Netherlands. It was the 1939 Ordinance concerning Territorial Sea and Marine Environment under which Indonesia is entitled to only 3 nautical miles (around 5.6 kilometers) of territorial sea measured from the baselines (usually coastline) of each island. Consequently, the Indonesian archipelago was divided into several groups of territories separated by one another. This was disadvantageous because it “could not contain the archipelago within a single jurisdictional blanket” (Djalal, 1990).

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