Sovereignty and the Sea: How Indonesia Became an Archipelagic State Eric Owen Moss Cover illustration by David Blackwood

Cover illustration by David Blackwood

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Sovereignty and the Sea: How Indonesia Became an Archipelagic State Eric Owen Moss Cover illustration by David BlackwoodUntil the mid 1950s nearly all of the sea between the far flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago was open to ships of all nations, but in 1957, the Indonesian government declared that it had absolute sovereignty over all the waters lying within straight baselines drawn between the outermost islands of Indonesia. In this single step, Indonesia made its lands and seas a unified entity for the first time, a claim formally recognized in 1982 by the