THE ANALYSIS OF DELIMITATION MARITIME BOUNDARIES BETWEEN INDONESIA AND SINGAPORE (S000410)

Although Indonesia and Singapore have two maritime agreements on state boundaries in 1973 and 2009, Singapore remains undergo coastal reclamation. The recJamation leads to addition of Singapore land to seaward. On the other hand, Nipah Island suffers reducing of land in outermost point of the island because of abrasion. As the outermost island in Indonesia, actually, the island is become as base point of Indonesia maritime borders with Singapore. Those probably have the effect toward Indonesia and Singapore boundaries.

This research aims to look at the legal position of delimitation between Indonesia as result of Singapore's coastal reclamation toward the territorial sea of both States, and effort has been done by Indonesia in delimitation maritime boundaries with Singapore.

In order to compile data, library research is applied to get secondary data, through reading, citing and analyzing data that are related to object of research. The methodology apply is normativejuridical that emphasis on rules of law on the law of the sea either international or national law.

The research found that, the legal position of maritime boundaries between Indonesia and Singapore is not influenced by coastal reclamation. Land reclamation is not deemed as a natural island as refer to Article 121 (I) UNCLOS 1982 and it is not considered as permanent harbour works as in Article 11 UNCLOS. Loss of base point in Nipah Island does not affect toward the border because coordinating base point in the island has been enrolled in Secretary General of the United Nations. To solves unfinish maritime boundaries in east segment, on the other side, the Government of Indonesia exercises border diplomacy persuade to the Law Number 37 of 1999 on International Relation through Peace and Negotiation Mechanism.

It is recommended that east segment of maritime border Indonesia and Singapore should be solved in order to have clear sea borders so as potential sea sources could be taken benefit by local residence. Establishment of state borders could avoid conflict of border effecting to bilateral relationship and navigation security in the international strait is more guarantee to support international trade.