The Management of Indonesia’s Outermost Small Islands as A National Strategic Region Based On Eco Marine Tourism

Abstract

Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the world. Referring to UNCLOS in 1982, Indonesia sets the outermost small islands as the base line for the island. For Indonesia the position of the small islands holds a strategic role, especially from the defense aspect, and security to maintain the wholeness of its territory. This study emphasizes on the law the aspect of external small islands from several dimensions, such as spatial planning, environment, tourism, institutional, authority management between the central government level, province, and the district / town. The facts that have been shown in many countries, small islands that are managed effectively and comprehensively to be a foreign exchange to a country and give an economic life to its society. In contrast, the management of small islands, especially the outermost small islands receive quite many challenges, such as; limited accessibility, ports, streets, electricities, telecommunication, and accommodation supports. To show how available the legal instruments in the management of small islands are the models of eco marine tourism models of Serdang Bedagai. Natural resources inventory, and the beauty as a tourist attraction, makes Berhala Island in Serdang Bedagai as a promising as a eco marine tourism area. The analysis made by the law sincerization which regulates the outermost small islands that have been shown to manage development in institutions, coordination, management organization changes in the central level aspects, changes in regional authority in managing water regions could be seen as the slowing factor of management momentum in the outermost small islands of Indonesia. Development in nautical tourism in the outermost small islands in Indonesia, at least the approach paradigm from defense and security dimension to local empowerment dimension, and international society can be in the effective authorization aspect which in many international juridical decisions was made as judges consideration on ownership territories conflicts of disputed small islands.