The Harmonization of Maritime Law (UU No. 32 of 2014) for Indonesia’s Sovereignty in Marine Resource Management Facing UN Policy about Area beyond National Jurisdiction

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10.2991/icils-19.2019.36How to use a DOI?

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Maritime Law, Marine Resource Management, Areas of Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ)

Abstract

Republic of Indonesia lies in the geographical position of 6º N-11 º S and 95 º E-141 ºE is flanked by the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, as well as the continent of Asia and Australia. Bodies Archipelagic lays at the meeting point of the communication lines between the Pacific and Indian Oceans as well as Asia and the Australian Continent. The existence of climate variations by interaction current path two oceans (Indian and Pacific) and two continents (Asia and Australia) makes seascape Indonesia has rich biodiversities. Marine management world entered a new historical stage. The United Nations (UN) has started drafting a new international legal instrument that would regulate the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in the Areas of Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ) have great economic value, especially as a source of new discoveries medical world. On that, Indonesia sees the need to joint arrangements for the conservation and management of one of the natural resources. Indonesia has a jurisdiction where the seabed and the land under it is under the authority of Indonesia, but the water column the status of international waters. This becomes important because of marine biodiversity is well located on the seabed and in the water of a water column, so it needs a clear regulation of the international community about the condition UU No. 32 of 2014 on the marine endorsed as a basic orientation of Indonesian marine management. Indonesia has limitations in the use and management of marine resources in the territorial sea. Plan of use and management policies ABNJ by the United Nations may have negative impacts for the sovereignty of the Indonesian. Therefore it is necessary to set up a regulatory harmonization in the preparation of the National Law and the Law of Marine and it implementation to align with ABNJ concept. And to develop a road map for utilization of maritime space in the Indonesian jurisdiction directly adjacent to ABNJ.

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