SHEET COUNTRY
REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
| No. 73, 1996 | (Explanation in Additional Sheet State Republic Of Indonesia Number 3647) |
CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
NUMBER 6, 1996
ABOUT
INDONESIAN WATERS
WITH THE GRACE OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA,
.,, weighed: a. that based on the historical reality and the view of the Indonesian nation, the State of the Republic of Indonesia proclaimed on 17 August 1945, as an island nation with the Declaration of 13 December 1957 and the Law No. 4 Prp. 1960 on the Waters of Indonesia has established the territorial waters of the Republic of Indonesia;
., b. that the Indonesian nation has successfully championed the conception of the state law of the islands with its envenerable provisions regarding the principle and legal regime of the island nation in chapter IV. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that has been ratified with the Law No. 17 of 1985 on the Unrest of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;
.,, c. that the regulation of the state laws of the archipelago is set out in the Law Number 4 Prp. 1960 on the Waters of Indonesia is no longer in compliance with the development of the state legal regime of the islands as contained in Chapter IV of the Convention on the letter b;
., d. that in respect of that, as well as to establish a legal foundation governing Indonesian territorial waters, sovereignty, jurisdiction, rights and obligations as well as activities in Indonesian waters in the framework of national development based on Insights Nusantara, then it needs to revoke the Prp Number 4 Act. 1960 on the Waters of Indonesia and replacing it with the new Act;
.,, Given: 1. Section 5 of the paragraph (1), Section 20 of the paragraph (1), and Section 33 of the Constitution of the Basic Law of 1945;
., 2. Law No. 17 of 1985 on the Unrest of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) (State Sheet 1985 Number 76, Additional Gazette number 3319);
With Approval
REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
DECIDED:
Establish: LEGISLATION ON INDONESIAN WATERS.
BAB I
UMUM PROVISIONS
Section 1
In this law referred to:
., 1. An island nation is a country that consists entirely of one or more islands and can include other islands.
., 2. An island is a naturally occurring land area surrounded by water and which is above the surface of the water at the time of the tide.
., 3. Islands are a cluster of islands, including parts of the island and waters between these islands, and other natural forms that are related to each other so that the islands, waters, and other natural forms are the only natural forms of the island. one unified geography, economy, security defense, and politics that is hakiki, or that is historically considered to be so.
., 4. Indonesian waters are the territorial sea of Indonesia and the waters of the archipelago and its deep waters.
. .5. A low-water line is a fixed waterline somewhere that describes the lowest level of sea level of the surface.
., 6. The receding elevation is a naturally occurring land area which is surrounded and above sea level at low tide times, but is below sea level at the time of the tide.
., 7. The bay is a clear indentation that penetrates in such a way as the width of its mouth so that it contains closed waters that are more than just a coastal arch, but an indentation does not constitute a bay. Except where it is wide or wider than the size of a half-circle, whose middle line is drawn across the mouth of the indentation.
., 8. An archipelaer of the archipelago is a sea-flow pass by ship or foreign air craft over the sea, to carry out sailing and flight in a normal way solely for continuous transit, directly and as quickly as possible. as well as unobstructed through or above the territorial waters of the archipelago and the adjoining territorial sea between one part of the open sea or the Indonesian exclusive Economic Zone and the loose sea section or the other Indonesian exclusive Economic Zone.
., 9. The Convention was the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982, as ratified by Law No. 17 of 1985 on the Unrest of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (United Nations Convention on the United Nations Convention). about the Law of the Sea)
Section 2
(1) State of the Republic of Indonesia is the State of the Islands.
.,, (2) All the waters around, in between, and that connects the islands or parts of the islands that belong to the mainland of the Republic of Indonesia, by not taking into account the breadth or breadth is an integral part of the land region The Republic of Indonesia is therefore a part of Indonesian waters that are under the sovereignty of the Republic of Indonesia.
BAB II
INDONESIAN TERRITORIAL WATERS
Section 3
.,, (1) The Indonesian Waters region includes Indonesia ' s territorial sea, islands waters, and inland waters.
.,, (2) The Indonesian Territorial Sea is a 12-mile (12) wide sea course of sea miles which is hallowed from the base of the Indonesian archipelago as referred to in Article 5.
.,, (3) The Waters of the Indonesian Islands are all waters located on the side in a straight base of the islands regardless of the depth or distance of the coast.
.,, (4) The inland waters of Indonesia are all waters located on the ground side of the low water line of the Indonesian beaches, including the indepth of all parts of the water located on the ground side of a cover line as referred to in Section 7.
Section 4
The sovereignty of the State of the Republic of Indonesia in Indonesian waters includes territorial seas, territorial waters, and inland waters as well as the airspace over the territorial sea, the waters of the archipelago, and the inland waters and the seabed and the ground beneath it. including the natural wealth source contained within it.
Section 5
.,, (1) The base of the Indonesian archipelago is drawn using the straight line of the archipelago (2) In terms of the island ' s straight base line as referred to in verse (1) cannot be used, hence the use of a regular base line or a straight base line.
.,, (3) The base base of the archipelago as referred to in verse (1) is the straight lines that connect the outermost points on the low water lines of the islands and the outermost coral of the Indonesian archipelago.
(4) The length of the base line of the islands, as referred to in verse (3) cannot exceed 100 (100) nautical miles, except that 3% (three per hundred) of the total number of base lines surrounding the Indonesian archipelago can be found. It exceeds that length, until a maximum length of 125 (one hundred and twenty-five) nautical miles.
.,, (
