Abstract:
Nowadays Sulu Sea is becoming the core of geopolitics issues between Indonesia,
Malaysia and the Philippines. The three countries are looking at Sulu Sea as the
strategic environment which has the substance of their national security interest,
but the maritime security condition at Sulu Sea has no longer stable after the
existence of Abu Sayyaf Group. In this thesis will explain about the agreement of
maritime security cooperation which is called as the Trilateral Cooperation
Arrangement in preserving Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines national
security interests at Sulu Sea. The agreement has been initiated by the minister of
foreign affairs of those three countries in order to their common concern about the
threat that has been conducted by the Abu Sayyaf Group. Indonesia, Malaysia,
and the Philippines as the three countries who agreed in the Trilateral Cooperation
Arrangement at Sulu Sea recognize the threat in the maritime areas is maritime
piracy such as ship hijacking and kidnapping for ransom that could threatened
their national security interest as well as their sovereignty at sea. Therefore in
order to overcome the maritime piracy at Sulu Sea, the three countries implement
the initiatives that have been agreed.
