Quoting and Authority

Quoting and Authority Territorial Limit of a Country

Two-thirds of Indonesia such as water, and 90% of water is the sea. Indonesian sea area is very wide, so many efforts made to maintain and manage. Sea zone and / or region of the Indonesian sea can be divided into three, namely:

Territorial Sea Zone

Zone territorial sea is the delusion that the distance of 12 nautical miles from the base line to the high seas. A country has the right to full sovereignty territorial sea limit the obligation to provide a peaceful flow of sea traffic both above and below the sea surface.

Zone base continent

Zone continent is the basic foundation of the marine geological and morphology is a continuation of a continent (continent), marine depths less than 150 meters and Bats base line measured from the continent that is most remote base 200 nautical miles. The basic line is the delusion that the dots from the tip-end of the island.

Exclusive Economic Zone

Exclusive Economic Zone is the sea selebar 200 nautical miles kea rah open line measured from the base. In this zone, the countries have the opportunity to take advantage of the natural resources that are in it. But does not prohibit the freedom of international shipping and aviation and the freedom of the cables and pipes beneath the sea that is based on the principles of international law applicable.

From the third zone have the same, namely, when there are two or more countries of the zone is the territorial ditari line equidistant from each country.