Indonesia’s Decision to Share Data of Vessel Monitoring System with Global Fishing Watch

Presya Ramadhan, Vinsensio Dugis

2018

Abstract

This article examines Indonesia's decision to share data of Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) with Global Fishing Watch (GFW). What are the considerations and what does Indonesia aim to achieve by this decision? Based on a library research as a method and utilizing global governance, collective legitimization, and rationalist international regimes as an approach for analysis, arguments in the paper are proposed as follows. First, Indonesia's interest in sharing VMS data with GFW has been driven by a desire to increase Jakarta’s legitimacy on establishing fisheries transparency regime at the global level. Second, with a global legitimacy in hand, the Indonesian government could have a strong base to collectively pressing the global community agree on identifying illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUUF) activities as a form of transnational organized crime (TOC). This is important for Indonesia as the continued presence of IUUF has inhibited the Indonesian government to optimally gain benefits from potential marine resources on majority of Indonesian territorial waters.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ramadhan P. and Dugis V. (2018). Indonesia’s Decision to Share Data of Vessel Monitoring System with Global Fishing Watch. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 355-362. DOI: 10.5220/0010277100002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Presya Ramadhan and Vinsensio Dugis},
title={Indonesia’s Decision to Share Data of Vessel Monitoring System with Global Fishing Watch},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={355-362},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010277100002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - Indonesia’s Decision to Share Data of Vessel Monitoring System with Global Fishing Watch
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Ramadhan P.
AU - Dugis V.
PY - 2018
SP - 355
EP - 362
DO - 10.5220/0010277100002309