INDONESIA BEYOND THE WATER'S EDGE:
Managing an Archipelagic State
The Australian National University
Friday and Saturday, 19–20 September 2008
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state. More than half its share of the earth's surface is sea, and the marine frontier presents Indonesia with economic opportunity and political and strategic challenges.
Indonesia has been affected more than most countries in the world by a slow revolution in the management of the seas. Whereas Indonesia's seas were once conceived administratively as little more than the empty space between islands, successive governments have become aware of the need to establish regulatory regimes in marine areas to manage the allocation of marine resources, to guard national security and to provide human services to those at sea. The effective transfer to the seas of regulatory regimes such as territoriality that took shape on land has been an enduring challenge to Indonesian governments. This conference examines Indonesia's response to that challenge. Presentations will address maritime boundaries and security, marine safety, inter-island shipping, the development of the archipelagic concept in international law, marine conservation, Indonesian sea-farers, illegal fishing, and the place of the
sea in national and regional identity.
Speakers include Hasjim Djalal, Djoko Sumaryono, Rili Djohani, Gerry van Klinken, Howard Dick, John Butcher, James Fox, Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons, Vincent Ashcroft and David Ray.
Conference convenor
Robert Cribb Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
robert.cribb@anu.edu.au
The annual Indonesia Update is presented by the Indonesia Project, The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), and the Department of Political and Social Change (RSPAS) in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University (ANU). Support from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the ANU is gratefully acknowledged.
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