Revealing Indonesia's Reluctance to Participate in the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP)

Abstract

The Vision of President Jokowi to create Indonesia as a world maritime axis meets a variety of challenges. Piracy and armed robbery are the real threat faced by each state, in particular, Indonesia as a maritime (archipelagic) state. The escalation more is realized in real life. For facing the challenges, states in Asia create The Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP). Unfortunately, Indonesia is not joining the regional cooperation that makes this phenomenon is very interesting to investigate. Therefore, this article argues that Indonesia's foreign policy did not ratify ReCAAP's regional cooperation was identified from various factors including systemic sources, societal sources, governmental sources & idiosyncratic sources. This article uses a qualitative research method with a case study approach. Data collection techniques in this article use a literature study where is sourced from several kinds of literature. This article concludes that the four factors above that influenced Indonesian policy did not ratify the ReCAAP regional cooperation.

On the Path of Piracy Legal Regulation from the Degree of Pirate Legal Interest Infringement: The Statistical Research Method as an Approach to Intervention

“…In the legal regulation and measures of piracy, for example, some scholars have studied the reasons why Indonesia does not join the Asian regional cooperation agreement on combating piracy and armed robbery against ships [9]; some scholars hold the belief that countries should revise their domestic definition of piracy [10]; exploring the definition of piracy in the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea [11], sorting out the evolution of the concept of piracy [4], analyzing and describing the judgment of piracy cases of a certain county [12], outlining the different initiatives taken by the international community to combat piracy in Somalia [13]. Some scholars point out that insufficient international laws to solve the problem of territorial piracy, coupled with the lack of effective law enforcement in the special political, social, and economic conditions in some countries, resulting in a surge in piracy in their territorial waters [14]; some scholars have explored the purposes of piracy crime [15,16]; some scholars have also explored the legislative model of piracy [17], etc.…”