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Advancing Blue Economy initiatives could foster improved maritime security, leveraging the symbiotic relation between development and stability.

Maritime disputes, criminal activities, and great power competition, particularly in the South China Sea, pose significant threats to Blue Economy outcomes and undermine regional cooperation, deter investment, and hinder sustainable development.

While ASEAN has made significant strides in articulating a collective vision for the Blue Economy through the 2021 Leaders’ Declaration and the 2023 ASEAN Blue Economy Framework these initiatives largely sidestep the region’s complex security challenges.

This issue explores the critical interplay between maritime security and the Blue Economy in Southeast Asia, emphasising that regional economic aspirations are intertwined with geopolitical realities.

The Blue Security Program is a collaboration La Trobe Asia, UNSW Canberra, @usstudiescentre.bsky.social , @defenceuwa.bsky.social & Asia Pacific 4 D. Blue Security receives funding support from DFAT.

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Policy implications exist for Indonesia’s long-term strategic behaviour, the dilemma Indonesia’s strategic culture presents for external powers & how Aust should best strategically engage with SEA in a manner that does not undermine Indonesia’s leadership or territorial integrity

One strain is inward-looking, driven by a sense of vulnerability and focused narrowly on Indonesia’s territorial integrity as an archipelagic state and domestic development agenda. The other is outward-looking, driven by Indonesia’s sense of regional entitlement.

This issue examines how Indonesia’s #maritime policies have been made within the context of strategic culture, in which two strains, shaped by different interpretations of its geography and strategic history, coexist in tension.

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The article concludes with recommendations to the latter such that they may preserve their interests and advance cooperation with Indonesia while avoiding the elements of “navigation” issues that could otherwise shipwreck those relationships.
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Bradford & Darmawan describe three historic cases where these divergences have flared to become diplomatic incidents, and it examines points of friction that could adversely impact Indonesia’s future relationships with status quo sea powers.

This issue explores the historical and strategic nature of the differences between Indonesia and the major maritime states, focusing on their differing views on freedom of navigation in archipelagic waters.

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Blue Security Maritime Fellow Dr Dela Cruz develops the argument by examining how states have deployed historical narratives in asserting the legal status of archipelagos. Download it here: www.latrobe.edu.au/__data/asset...

Historical narratives have played a significant role in how states assert their rights and entitlements in the law of the sea before and after the adoption of the Convention.