The Exigency of Comprehensive Maritime Policy to Materialize and Implement Indonesia’s Global Maritime Fulcrum Objective

Abstract

For the past three years, since President Jokowi took up the office, Indonesia has been emphasizing its ambitious goal to transform the nation into a global maritime fulcrum and have been developing some projects and initiatives to achieve it. To transform Indonesia into the world maritime fulcrum was set to become the objective of the government. This paper discusses Indonesian policy regarding maritime, including the country’s stance, strategy, and proposed actions resulted from the statutory regulations. It also analyzes whether the policy passed suffices the requirements to become the maritime fulcrum or not. The study uses a descriptive approach by reviewing and analyzing some of relevant statutory regulations relating to maritime affairs literature as the sources. It also reviews and examines the proposed actions in the regulations. This process draws the conclusion whether the country regulates sufficient policy or not and proposes strategy to achieve it. The results show that in order to achieve the world maritime axis, it has to regulate a comprehensive policy and law on maritime affairs which includes monitoring and evaluation from time to time to ensure the strategy and projects implemented effectively. Finally, this paper highlights the challenges and provides some recommendations to be considered to implement. Keywords–Maritime policy, Maritime law, Global maritime axis, Archipelagic nation