Penegakan Hukum Mengenai Sengketa Wilayah Laut Kepulauan Natuna Indonesia Atas Klaim Dari Republik Rakyat Tiongkok Berdasarkan Hukum Laut Internasional

Natuna is an international sea route. As a result, China has often asserted its territorial claims over the Natunas. Until now, Indonesia's position as an archipelagic country has remained constant for a long period of time. This advantage allows Indonesia to utilize and manage a maritime area of 5.8 million square kilometers. The Natuna Islands are Indonesia's largest archipelago in the volatile constellation of the South China Sea conflict. From the Chinese version, they claim the Natuna area on their regional map based on nine imaginary line points known as the nine-dash line. However, Indonesia did not recognize it from the nine locations on the border, arguing that there was no international legal basis for it. The nine imaginary points have become a source of conflict in the South China Sea area. Several times in the Natuna Sea, Indonesian and Chinese ships collided. China's courage is said to be motivated by a great desire to control the islands. In addition, China often makes vague statements indicating that Natuna is indeed within Indonesian territory. However, China does not state that Natuna is an integral component owned by Indonesia. In addition, due to errors related to the contents of international agreements, conflicts over economic resources in disputed areas, cases of interference with other countries' ownership, political influence from disputing countries, security and economy in the territory of the disputed or international countries will be disrupted. So that the existence of a conflict can have an impact on the nation and people who do not participate in the dispute to get the consequences of Indonesia's international conflict with China. This study aims to investigate dispute resolution efforts regarding the Natuna sea area carried out by Indonesia and the People's Republic of China and to investigate law enforcement mechanisms in international maritime law regarding disputes over the Natuna sea area. This study will examine the subject matter according to the scope and identification of the problem through a normative juridical approach. Based on the normative research method, the data source used in this study is a secondary data source consisting of 3 legal materials, namely: primary legal materials, secondary legal materials, and tertiary legal materials. The data collected from the literature study