Reclaiming Jakarta's North Coast: Perspectives from the Defense, Security, and Constitutional Aspects

Vera Wheni Setijawati

doi:10.21143/jhp.vol47.no2.1453

Abstract

Indonesia’s sea territory is particularly important in uniting the country, as the sea is a medium for interconnectivity; a medium for national integrity; a medium for resources; a medium for diplomacy; and a medium for national defense and security. This paper will focus on the sea’s significance to Indonesia’s national unity in its role as a medium for interconnecting the country’s many islands, and the implications thereof to Indonesia’s national security and defense. This paper will within this context discuss in particular the reclamation of Jakarta’s north coast. This research applies a normative empirical methodology, and intends to provide a scientific basis for the argument that as Jakarta’s coastline is crucial in terms of national defense and security matters, the coastline should therefore be managed by a state agency and remain publicly accessible.

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Indonesia first proclaimed itself as a maritime state through the Djoeanda Declaration on December 13, 1957, which was passed into law as Government Regulation in lieu of Law No
This research looks into the problem of how the government should address defense and security concerns relating to the reclamation project, and whether national and international laws were applied in the project
It should be noted that as Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia, there are many vital objects located throughout the city

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Indonesia first proclaimed itself as a maritime state through the Djoeanda Declaration on December 13, 1957, which was passed into law as Government Regulation in lieu of Law No.. Indonesia ratified the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in Law No.. Year1985 and amended its sea territory law as the Law No 6 Year 1996. The Djoeanda Declaration, the UNCLOS ratification, and all the national legal standings affirmed Indonesia as an archipelagic state with a sea territory totalling 5.8 million square-kilometers, consisting of 3.2 million square-kilometers of territorial waters and 200 nm of an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Indonesia is acknowledged of comprising 17,504 islands, whose combined coastlines extend up to 95,181 kilometers

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