IMPLICATION OF SOUTH CHINA SEA ARBITRATION TO MALAYSIA (CASE STUDY: PHILIPPINE VERSUS CHINA)

摘要

The South China Sea holds some portion of a fundamental course for oceanic exchange and transport for East Asia and Southeast Asia States and their trading accomplices in Asia, Africa, and beyond. Due to its potential as important shipping lane, exploitation of oil and natural gas deposits, and marine production, there has been a dispute between countries for the South China Sea. Therefore, this research focuses on the sovereignty of the South China Sea and all the features located in its area. There are six countries involve in this dispute which are China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippine, Brunei and Malaysia. The main objective of this research is the delimitation of maritime boundaries for each country involved in the dispute and their respective claim of the features. The software that was used in this research is the AutoCAD 2007 and ArcGIS. The basepoint along the shoreline are connected to form the baseline where it is form this baseline that the maritime zones were being determined. The result has shown that from the extension of Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 nautical miles from the baseline, the main focus of features in South China Sea, which is the Spratly Island, belong to either Malaysia, Brunei or Philippines and out of the maritime zone of the other three country. However, the dispute between all the six countries can only be solved if each country agreed to bring this issues the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for mutual solution.