WACANA PEMBENTUKAN ALUR LAUT KEPULAUAN INDONESIA (ALKI) RUTE TIMUR-BARAT DITINJAU DARI HUKUM INTERNASIONAL

Abstract

This research aims to determine and examines the problems regarding how is the juridicial ascpect of the issue of the designation of Indonesia’s Archipelagic Sea Lanes (ASL) East-West Routes. This research is a prescriptive normative legal research. This research use the 1982 United Netions Convention on The Law of The Sea (UNCLOS) as its primary legal sources. While literatures, expert opinions, as well as journals, scientific legal articles and other relevant document and also using the electronic based material, such as internet are used as the secondary law sources of this research. The sources were collected through the library study. Furthermore, those legal materials be treated and analyzed and had been used to answers the studied issues In terms of the Article 53 of 1982 United Nations Convention On the Law of The Sea, the results of the research show that Indonesia is in needs to complete the designation of Indonesia archipelagic sea lanes which would be completed through the designation of the East-West route of the Indonesia archipelagic sea lanes.