The seminar is one part of series of ILW events (international law week) held by ILSA in collaboration with the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs of the Republic Indonesia. It is an event that is packaged to provide information and knowledge according to the theme reviewed, “Seabed Mining in Indonesia” which also presents presenters from the ministry to deliver some knowledge to students about the development of regulations on the legal mining framework in Indonesia. The activity was held at the 6th Floor Auditorium Building A, Faculty of Law, Universitas Brawijaya on Monday (4/15/2019).
The seminar was attended by 150 participants from academia, practitioners and students begin with opening from Dr. Muchamad Ali Safa’at, S.H., M.H as Dean of the Faculty of Law, and moderated by AAA Nanda Saraswati S.H., M.H as FHUB academics.
Some guest also attended as speakers including Budi Purwanto, SH. MH as Assistant Deputy of Maritime Law and Agreement Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs, Dr. Noor Cahyo D. Aryanto as Coordinator of Marine Mineral Resources R & D, Research Center for Marine Geology, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, RA. Achmad Gusman Catur Siswandi, S.H., L.L.M, PhD As academics at the Faculty of Law, Padjajaran University, and Dhiana Puspitawati, S.H., LL.M., P.Hd. as an academic at the Faculty of Law, University of Brawijaya.
Seabed mining or oil drilling activities carried out in the free sea is one of the major mining activities. The activity of seabed mining is indeed beneficial, one of which is humans to get resources and also income for the country. But on the other hand drilling also has various other impacts, one of the impact is on the environment. Indonesia’s perspective on deep sea mining is still too expensive and there is uncertainty about its environmental impact. The lack of a legal framework for deep sea mining has added more challenges to Indonesia. Therefore, it is very important for the Indonesian government to have an adequate legal framework that affirms international customary law and the international legal framework that is in deep sea mining.
This seminar discusses the role of the ministry of coordinating maritime, namely as a function of coordination of synchronization and policy control in accordance with INPRES (Presidential Instruction) 7 of 2017 which is so that as soon as possible the establishment of a legal framework to anticipate deep sea mining activities outside the Indonesian jurisdiction will soon be realized. It was conveyed, despite the opportunities that Indonesia has, the lack of a legal framework for mining the ocean is very unfortunate. Thus, the establishment of an adequate legal framework in relation to deep sea mining is very important.