The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is encouraging parties and non-parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), including Indonesia, to seek the independent judicial body’s mediation in settling their maritime boundary disputes. Paik Jin-hyun, the ITLOS president, said on Tuesday the nations had better come to the international body if they could not resolve their disputes through bipartite negotiations. “We can help settle disputes peacefully,” he said after receiving a replica of South Sulawesi’s traditional pinisi boat from Safri Burhanuddin, the Office of the Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister’s deputy for human resources, science and technology and maritime culture. The tribunal has jurisdiction over any dispute concerning the interpretation or application of the convention and its decisions ar...