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INDONESIA'S DELIMITED MARITIME BOUNDARIES. By Vivian Louis Forbes. Berlin: Springer, 2014. xvii, 266pp. (Illustrations, maps.) US$129.00, cloth. ISBN 978-3-642-54394-4.
Indonesia consists of over 17,500 islands, around 6000 of which are inhabited by a population in excess of 250 million people forming the world's largest archipelago stretching nearly 5000 kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Indonesia's sheer size, together with the proximity of a wide range of neighbouring coastal states, has resulted in a multiplicity of potentially overlapping maritime boundaries, the delimitation of which is crucial to everything from good governance of living and nonliving marine resources to protection of the environment, to freedom of navigation.
This newly revised version of a previous work thoughtfully and accurately updates important developments that have occurred over the past while in the area of conflict resolution and maritime boundary delimitation, including: revisions to Indonesia's archipelagic baseline...