19. EFEKTIVITAS KERJA SAMA INDONESIA – FILIPINA DALAM PENANGANAN KASUS IUU FISHING OLEH FILIPINA DI PERAIRAN INDONESIA PERIODE 2008 – 2014

Abstract

Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world with around 17,506 of islands and a coastline
of 81,900 km. Indonesian territory which is 2/3 of it is the water area certainly has a lot of
natural resources either biological or non biological, therein including fisheries. IUU Fishing
in Indonesia has a fairly high frequency rate, especially by neighboring countries, Philippines.
Indonesia and Philippines have made efforts of cooperation in order to combat IUU Fishing.
The purpose of this study is to understand the impact that may result from IUU fishing
activities, especially for Indonesia and to analyze how effective the cooperation between the
Government of Indonesia and the Government of Philippines in handling cases of IUU
Fishing. The type of causal comparative research is used in this study to explain the causal
relation that influences the effectiveness of cooperation between the Government of Indonesia
and the Government of Philippines in the handling of IUU fishing in Indonesian waters. The
results of this study indicates that such cooperation is effective in combating IUU fishing in
the waters of Indonesia by the Filipinos, but has not achieve optimal results yet.
Improvements by both government of Indonesia and Philippines is necessary, to realize the
security and stability of Indonesian waters comprehensively.