China's Aggressive Stance In The North Natuna Region, Indonesia Did What?

Abstract

Indonesia is an archipelagic country with a geopolitical understanding of wawasan nusantara perspective and mandates of the 1945 Constitution. This is the base of Indonesia's political policy in addressing the South China Sea conflict which is involving China and countries in Southeast Asia. Indonesia, even though it claims to be a non-climate state but it always giving full support to reach the solution. Unfortunately, concrete legal solution for the parties has still not been achieved till know, even though the Philippines has taken China to the Permanent Court of Arbitration. An important point in the problem of this research about what is the solution by Indonesia in responding to China's unilateral claim to ownership of the North Natuna Sea based on UNCLOS 1982? After conducting research and interviews with competent parties at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, it can be concluded that the efforts of Indonesia and ASEAN countries to create a Code of Conduct (CoC) with China is one of the best conflict management that can be done nowadays. Indonesia has gained many positive things by being actively involved in the CoC discussion process. The existence of the Natuna Sea area which holds a lot of potential for oil and gas, fisheries, and tourism is the sovereignty of the Republic of Indonesia which must be protected from other intervention.