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View all search resultsThe 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.
The overlapping claims and the delimitation of maritime boundaries for some countries can lead to negotiation for cooperative management mechanisms in the form of a maritime joint development zone to manage and exploit marine resources offshore temporarily until the maritime delimitation can be reached.
Indonesia and Vietnam have begun talks on an arrangement to prevent any further maritime skirmishes as they try to settle their overlapping claims to economic borders, which have been a source of tension between the Southeast Asian neighbors.
Jakarta and Dili are to finally start negotiations to delimit their shared maritime boundaries following the conclusion of land border talks, 20 years after Timor Leste's vote for independence from Indonesia.
On April 9, a video went viral on social media. It shows Indonesian patrol officers in the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malaysian Peninsula, reporting they were being chased by a Malaysian vessel. The incident reportedly took place in Indonesian waters following the capture of Malaysian fishermen operating in Indonesian waters by Indonesian patrol officers.
In 1969, Indonesia and Malaysia signed a historic deal to establish their maritime boundaries. It was in fact the first agreement on maritime boundaries Indonesia had ever signed. The agreement makes clear which seabed belongs to which country in the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea.
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