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28 Asian Y.B. Int'l L. 224 (2022)
State Practice of Asian Countries in International Law: Indonesia

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State   Practice of Asian Countries in

International Law
Indonesia


       Arie Afriansyah*, Alif Nurfakhri Muhammad**, Surya Oktaviandra***,
       Adhitya Nini RizkiApriliana**** andAnugrahAdiastuti*****



       MAKING & CONCLUDING TREATIES - NEGOTIATION -
       ACCESSION -   RATIFICATION -   DEPOSIT   - REGISTRATION   -
       INTERNAL   CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS

       Treaties

       Implementation  of the Indonesia-Singapore Flight Information
       Region Boundaries RealignmentAgreement
In January 2022, the governments of Indonesia and Singapore signed an agree-
ment  realigning the boundaries of Singapore FIR, which encompasses part of
Indonesian Airspace near Sumatra and the Riau Islands. The FIR Realignment
Agreement  is part of the three-agreement package negotiated and signed in
January. Other agreements are the Extradition Treaty, signed in 2007, and the
Defense Cooperation Agreement,  which the States had finished negotiations
in 2005.
   The FIR Realignment Agreement was later ratified by Indonesia in September
2022 and authorized through Presidential Regulation No. iog of 2022. The rat-
ification itself was not accepted by some members of the public, who took
the ratification authorization to the Supreme Court in November 2022. They
claimed that the ratified FIR Realignment Agreement contradicts Article 458
of the Indonesian Aviation Law (Law No. 1 of 2009), and thus, the ratification
must be canceled. The Supreme Court later decided that it did not contradict
the Aviation Law and thus affirmed the continuity of its implementation prep-
aration. Following the decision, in January 2023, the Indonesian Parliament





*    State Practice Rapporteur, Associate Professor, Universitas Indonesia.
**   Lecturer, Universitas Indonesia.
     Assistant Professor, Universitas Andalas.
     Lecturer, Universitas Mataram.
     Assistant Professor, Universitas Sebelas Maret.
© ARIE AFRIANSYAH ET AL., 2024 I DOI:10.1163/9789004718128_O14
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