EFFORT TO OVERCOME PIRACY IN THE INDONESIA-PHILIPPINES MARITIME BORDERS.

Abstract

……………………………………………………………… As a country which share her maritime borders with ten other countries, and one of them is the Philippines, it is pretty certain that Indonesia must also shares the burden with the Philippines in order to make sure that the border waters areas, especially the Indonesia-Philipine one which is intensified with the the threat of transnational crime and varied in their forms and types are save to sail. Although it has been described that so far the two countries have been involved in a bilateral cooperation to maintain the security and peace in the water border areas, to date the maritime border between Indonesia and the Philippines in the Sulawesi Sea and Talaud waters have not yet fully been reached by the agreement or the nilateral cooperation. This has creating one of the constraints of law enforcement on some form of breach of the international law in the region. There still been going on criminal activities such as illegal fishing in the Sulawesi Sea, as this Indonesia’s waters area is the main pulling factor for such an activity, since it contain with a rich natural resources (fisheries) in large quantities. There has also been many illegal entries by both ordinary citizens and by a terrorist syndicate that utilizes ships routinely crossing the two countries sharing waters border of the region. There is a need for a strengthening the capacity and amount of the KRI involved in Patkor Philindo and Malphindo (if it has been formed) adapted to the area of operation, where the Indonesian-Philippines frontier of approximately 600 Nm requires the ideal number of warships as many as seven warships as well as the duration of time in that Patkor is a year-round in order to minimize breaches of the international law at sea.