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14 Indonesian J. Int'l L. 497 (2016-2017)
Study of the Right of Foreign Ship against State Sovereignty (Case Study Indonesia)

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Indonesian Journal of International Law (2017), Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 497-513
doi: 10.17304/ijil.voll4.4.704


     STUDY OF THE RIGHT OF FOREIGN SHIP AGAINST
     STATE SOVEREIGNTY (CASE STUDY INDONESIA)

                            Maria  Maya   Lestari

                   Faculty of Law, Riau University, Indonesia
                Correspondence: urmariamayalestari@gmail.com


                                   Abstract

Recognition of the archipelagic concept accommodated in chapter IV United Nations
Conventions Law of The Sea (LOSC) 1982. The implication of this recognition is archipelagic
states have sovereignty for their marine space. There are 3 zonation in sea sovereignty, that
are inland water, territorial water and archipelagic water. However, only in inland water that
archipelagic states has full sovereignty while for the other zones, it has followed by other states
rights, One of which is right of passage. Right of another state passage is consists by right of
innocent passage, right of archipelagic sealine passage and there is also right of transit
passage. Indonesia has determined three archipelagic sea lines passage, in this paper will
discuss about Indonesian sea sovereignty zone and right another state inside, along
implications for Indonesia after determination of archipelagic sealine passage.

Keywords: sovereignty of state, passage right, archipelagic sea-lines


          Submitted: 20 July 2016 | Revised: 20 October 2016 | Accepted: 14 June 2017

 I. INTRODUCTION

       The  concept  of archipelagic  state is a new  concept  of form  state
based  on  geographic   conditions  archipelago  consisting  of post  set out
in Chapter  IV, the United  Nations   Law  of the Sea  Convention   (LOSC)
1982.  Indonesia   and  Philippine  were  the  first state that claimed  and
made   regulation  about  sovereignty  sea, and  declare  all the waters  for
their archipelagic  sea,1on the basis interest of economic,  politic, history
and  geography.   2Eventually,   this concept   has  supported   by  another
archipelagoes   states.3 Finally, in 1982, result of United Nation  Confer-

1 C. F. Amerasinghe. The Problem of Archipelagoes in the International Law of the
Sea, The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3, July 1974),
p. 556
2  Ibid, C. F. Amerasinghe, p. 557-558, see to Jack A. Draper,  The Indonesia
Archipelagic State Doctrine and Law of the Sea: Territorial Grab or Justifiable
Necessity?, The International Lawyer, (Vol. 11, No. 1, 1977), p.144.
3 John R. Brock, Archipelago Concept of Limits of Territorial Seas, International Law
Studies, Role of International Law and an Evolving Ocean Law, edited by Richard B.


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