Monitoring the maritime domain: Time for Coast-Guards in Indonesia
Résumé
Increasing consideration of the maritime domain by Southeast Asian states lead governments of the region to rethink their own security posture, according more importance to the development of an effective maritime policy. If several of these states seems to own areal awareness of the conception of maritime domain and it's stakes, it's not unfair to say Indonesia, the most important archipelagic state, failed during long years to develop a real and effective maritime policy. Indeed, even if the basis were set up with the by the1957 Djoeanda proclamation - from the name of the Prime Minister Djoeanda Kartawidjada - hallowed the country as an archipelagic state, in 2010, this maritime vision seemsunachieved. At least, if several markers seems to prepare the ground for this kind of policy, it seems a long road before Jakarta become aware of the political stakes of its own maritime domain.