Policy evaluation of maritime security issues in Indonesia

Abstract

This paper aims to evaluate the implementation of Maritime Security Policy in Indonesia. While the issues of maritime security are varied, this paper focuses only on three issues in maritime security, which include maritime delimitation, Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU Fishing) and Piracy. It is argued that IUU Fishing as well as piracy and any other maritime security threats emerged due to unclear maritime delimitation. Indonesia is the biggest archipelagic state in the world neighboring with ten coastal states, which each of them needs clear maritime delimitation. While Indonesia has done much in fixing its maritime delimitation, yet much remain to be done. Furthermore, while various international legal framework has been established relating to IUU Fishing, unfortunately, national laws concerning IUU Fishing still recall for never ending debates. Similar to this, national laws in piracy is still out of date since such laws still regulated under Criminal Laws Code/ Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana (KUHP), which was adopted from Dutch laws many decades ago. Such conditions leads to insufficient policy implementation. This paper adopts a qualitative research method. Data collected from relevant informant and analysed using policy implementation theory. It is submitted that in ensuring policy implementation, existing policies relating to maritime security, especially IUU Fishing as well as piracy needs to be revisited and revised to be in accordance with international policies and legal framework