Abstract
This study aimed to know the implication of legal sovereignty in bilateral agreements as the intersection consequences of the political economy interests of the Chinese Silk Road and Maritime Axis of Indonesia. Also aimed to explain other further issues in bilateral relations between Indonesia and China, such as; effort in enorcing legal equality, provisions regulate effort to avoid abuse of power, rules on environmental issues, human rights regulation, also regulations in international matters. This study used descriptive qualitative as the methodology. The results showed that the choice of Chinese companies in the Jakarta-Bandung fast train project was purely an economic consideration, the government seems passive in responding to the surge in the number of foreign workers, especially China, which is not accompanied by the local labor absorption, several ethnic Chinese companies are still indicated to pollute the environment, the Government is still cautious in addressing human rights issues in Uyghur, the government is firm about violating illegal fishing of foreign and independent vessels in the dispute over the South China Sea.
Highlights
The silk road is a network of ancient trade routes as a center of cultural interaction in the Asian continent that connects the West and East from China to the Mediterranean Sea
This study aimed to know the implication of legal sovereignty in bilateral agreements as the intersection consequences of the political economy interests of the Chinese Silk Road and Maritime Axis of Indonesia
The results showed that the choice of Chinese companies in the JakartaBandung fast train project was purely an economic consideration, the government seems passive in responding to the surge in the number of foreign workers, especially China, which is not accompanied by the local labor absorption, several ethnic Chinese companies are still indicated to pollute the environment, the Government is still cautious in addressing human rights issues in Uyghur, the government is firm about violating illegal fishing of foreign and independent vessels in the dispute over the South China Sea
Summary
Mastery of the international trade route through the maritime silk road corridor has political and economic implications. The concept divided into economic belts along the ancient Silk Road and the 21st century Maritime Silk Road. The opening of the new Chinese silk line expected to guarantee energy supply stability from the Middle East and access the markets of Southeast Asian countries. It can at least cut the United States influence in Asia (Campos, 2015; Sevilla, 2017). Taking into account the economic and political aspects is very much in line with one belt road initiation
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