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View all search resultsMochtar Kusumaatmadja was instrumental in promoting the concept of the archipelagic state, which allowed Indonesia to exercise its right over internal waters, and was later adopted in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
The South China Sea has not been spared the nail-biting tension of 2020. As claimant states are preoccupied with efforts to fight the pandemic, numerous worrying incidents have occurred within the maritime territory, exacerbating the animosity among the states.
Indonesia will seek to prove it has legal and exclusive rights to waters beyond 200 nautical miles north of Papua province when it makes its case at the United Nations this week in a bid to expand its territory in search of potential mineral reserves.
Public discourse on the North Natuna Sea has been full of argument. Condemnations are addressed over the recurring presence of Chinese fishing vessels that harvest fish in the North Natuna Sea with protection from their country’s coast guard.
Indonesia has dismissed China’s invitation to sit down for a dialogue to "manage disputes” over Indonesia’s exclusive economic zones (EEZ) in the North Natuna Sea in Riau Islands province, arguing that there are no overlapping claims there – a message Indonesia has sent consistently since 2016.
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