Indonesia’s Position and Role in the East Sea Territorial Disputes
International Studies / No 1 (30)
Written by Hà Hồng Hải
International Studies - INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
Over the past years, the East Sea (internationally called the South China Sea) was stirred up, drawing attention not only from the regional countries but the international community as well. In face of extremely unreasonable tactics and acts by China regardless of international laws, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 1982) and the regional agreements such as the Declaration on the Conduct by the Parties in the East Sea (DOC) signed in 2002 between ASEAN and China, the situation in the East Sea has become tense facing a possible danger of an armed conflict of an even larger scale as happened in the past. The East Sea would become one of the hotspots in the world as well as the Asia-Pacific region. This situation requires countries inside and outside the region with legitimate interests to play an active role in managing and preventing an armed clash from taking place.
This article focuses on analyzing and explaining the reasons why Indonesia has become one of the nations playing an active role in searching preventive measures to manage conflict in the East Sea not only at present but also since the end of the Cold War in the 1990s of the past century. The matter arises that how Indonesia could play an intermediate role in the territorial dispute, and at the same time, defends its national interests in the East Sea in the new situation? Coupled with great strategic, political and economic interests in the East Sea due to its geo-political location in this region, Indonesia’s position on the East Sea issue is not to claim sovereignty in the East Sea, oppose China’s claims of the sea waters through the nine-dotted lines (the ox’s tongue/U-shaped lines) overlapping Indonesia’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone (EEZ) around its group of the Natuna islands; its view is that there exists no territorial dispute between Indonesia and China because China is not Indonesia’s direct neighbor, and it rejects China’s proposal to negotiate on territorial waters. With a view to protecting its interests, Indonesia has been implementing an active and dynamic, but cautious and sometimes “quiet”role in order to defend its national interests, and at the same time, achieve the objective of playing an intermediate role in this territorial dispute.
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