PENETAPAN ALUR LAUT KEPULAUAN INDONESIA (ALKI): MANFAATNYA DAN ANCAMAN BAGI KEAMANAN PELAYARAN DI WILAYAH PERAIRAN INDONESIA

• Main Author: Siti Merida Hutagalung
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Relations Study Program 2017-06-01
• Series: Jurnal Asia Pacific Studies
• Subjects: ALKI; Archipelago; Safety
• Online Access: http://ejournal.uki.ac.id/index.php/japs/article/view/502/384

Indonesia is the largest archipelago after the United States with 13,465 islands, totalland area 1.922.570 km² and total water area 3,257,483 km2. As a country that has ratified the International Sea Law Convention,there are legal obligations and responsibilities to grant the rightsof innocent, archipelagic sea lanes and transit passagesfor foreign ships and foreign aircraftsto sail and fly in the territory of Indonesian sovereignty as stipulated in Article 51 of the International Sea Law Convention 1982. Foreign ships and aircraft may pass through the territorial and waters of the Indonesian archipelago through specific sections and routes undertaken by determining archipelagic sea lanes. In 2002,through a long process,the concept of ALKI proposedbyIndonesia finally got approval from Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines,including Organization Maritime International. ThethreeArchipelagicSeaLanesof Indonesia (ALKI) is called ALKI I, ALKI II and ALKI III. The determination of this archipelago path provides benefits and threats to the safety of shipping along the territorial waters of Indonesia. Therefore, the government set various conditions to cross the ALKI in order to provide a sense of security for foreign ships and foreign aircraft sailing along the archipelagic sea lanes. Each archipelagic sea lane has different benefits and challenges depending on the geopolitical and geographic conditions of them. The type of research used in this paper is qualitative research with descriptive analysis approach