Legal existence of local wisdom for bajo fishery tribe on indonesian maritime border

Abstract

This paper aimed to explore the legitimation and admission toward the legal existence for Bajo’s effort in strengthening local wisdom, particularly in maintaining Indonesian’s Border. This effort is important to the maintenance of the sovereignty of the country’s maritime boundaries without eliminating the tribe’s local wisdom, which may exclude sustainable development for the society. This situation has altered their traditions of merely fishing for consumption. Thus, this work offers appropriate values in legitimating and admitting a legal existence for Bajo effort’s local wisdom. These include the rights of traditional fisherman community as indigenous people based on National and International Law and the legal protection of Bajo communal rights in exploiting sea and traditional fisherman criteria after UNCLOS, 1982 and MoU, 1974 and its amendments. The application of this method may create holistic and traditional manners in keeping and managing collective strategic resources for the greatest benefit of national defense, especially for the Bajo Fishery Tribe.