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9 Indonesian J. Int'l L. 465 (2011-2012)
The ASEAN Way towards Piracy Challenge

handle is hein.journals/indjil9 and id is 495 raw text is: The ASEAN Way towards Piracy ChaRenge Ikaningtyas and Patricia Audrey Ruslijanto* Piracy is a universal crime that needs to be combated by al nations. International efforts have been done for many years in order to suppress growth ofpiracyfor international maritime security, which resulted in provisions concerning piracy within United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It refers piracy as a crime taking place on high seas. In addition, International Maritime Organization also attempts to widen the defmiion of piracy. Even so, tackling piracy requires more than just a commitment ofinentational community to define the tera. Efforts must also be conductedby regional communnty to make them more effective. especially with theirnational legal instnment. Association of SoutheastAsian Nations (ASEAN) as the regional organization in SoutheastAsia region has sought to better cooperation among the members bringing the si behaviora principles laid in Treaty ofAmity and Cooperation 1976 and also ASEAN Charter 2007for the purpose of eliminating piracy within their region. Unfortunately, piracy is manfestly not easy to be eradicated in realit This paper tries to identify and anadyze the challenges that underlie ASEAN efforts to solve the piracy problem within the region. Keywords: piracy, universal crime, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, ASEAN Community I. Introduction Pirata est hostis generis human which means piracy is a crime of mankind is a term that had been recognized by world community, The existence of piracy has been recognized long time ago specially related with the robbery effort that happened in water area. The latest happenings of Somali's piracy over Indonesian vessel by taking its crew as hostage for an exchange of huge ransom from .,idonesia's government and Strait Malacca piracy have triggered world community attention to realize that pirate's territory has no boundaries to excurse their action. Many aspects have entailed the problem of the existence of piracy, from the old time tales of pirates to rule over the ocean to the excuse of defending their environment problem such as: illegal fishing and tremendous erosion of fish stocks severely constrained the ability of * Writers are lecturers in International Law Department Faculty of Law, Brawijaya University. Volume 9 Number 3 April 2012 465

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