Conceptualizing Indonesia’s Strategic Thinking in the Maritime Domain: Strategy as a Spectrum and a Process

By | March 20, 2025 | Categories: AMTI Update
Does Indonesia have a maritime strategy? There are two ways to approach this question: First, Jakarta does not have universally agreed national guidelines on maritime strategy. However, it consistently refers to three historical reference points: the Struggle for Independence (1945–49), the Djuanda Declaration (1957), and the Palapa Oath (14th century). These emphasize the far-flung archipelago of over 18,000 islands […]

The Sense and Sensibility of Malaysia’s Approach to its Maritime Boundary Disputes

By | November 21, 2022 | Categories: AMTI Update
When it comes to maritime boundary disputes, Malaysia is willing to select from a wide range of policy instruments at its disposal: from legal to political negotiation, and from restraint to combative skirmishes at sea. Malaysia can be accommodating, as it was with Indonesia when the two delimited their continental shelves in 1969 based on […]