Track One of Multi Track Diplomacy of Indonesia for The Sake of Promoting Ilegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Practices as Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in International Community

Abstract

As an archipelago country, Indonesia is abundant with marine resources. This particular condition is because of geographic condition that comprising more than 17.504 of islands and the second largest coastline in the world. At the same time, Indonesia also become the epicentre of marine life in the Coral Triangle, which is hosting the highest biodiversity of marine life. For this reason, according to FAO report in the year of 2016, Indonesia marine fish production is the second largest in the world after China. Although rich with its marine resources, this country is experiencing problematic situation, which is related to Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF) practices. As a result, this situation affects sustainability of fish production and marine ecosystem in Indonesia. In relation to methodology, this scientific paper is categorized as descriptive, that will describe the effort of Indonesia Government for the sake of mitigating the IUU Fishing Practice through promoting IUUF as Transnational Organized Crime (TOC). Furthermore, this paper also applying the concept of Multi Track Diplomacy, which will determine and show the tracks that used by Indonesia government to promote IUUF as TOC. Lastly, the source of data of this scientific paper is secondary which obtained from literature reviews, online journals and other relevant articles. Finally, the research shows, Indonesia mostly adopting Track One (Government) as the actor to promote IUU as TOC in international forum, such as United Nations conference and other marine international conferences.