Bargaining power Indonesia Terhadap Singapura Dalam Kerjasama Trilateral VPS (Voluntary Pilotage Service) di Selat Malaka Tahun 2016-2021

Abstract

This thesis describes how Indonesia Bargaining Power to Singapore with Voluntary Pilotage Service collaboration in the Straits of Malacca. Malacca Straits is a strategic shipping lane that attracts international attention, but in the other side Malacca straits security is unstability. Indonesia with its defensive principles tries to maintain national security and environmental sustainability while Singapore with open principles tries to internationalize this strait as trade route for economic interest.Then as a middle way for littoral state Voluntary Pilotage Service has agreed, that was ratified by the Internaitional Maritim Organization (IMO) in 2016. With a potential foreign exchange of 30 billion USD and guaranteed stability in the Malacca Straits area,Indonesia has made every its potential to show its bargain in this area through the appointment PT Pelindo to pilotage service provider integrated with TNI,KKP and BAKAMLA as a hard power to guarantees the safety of shipping in Malacca Staits.Indonesia with the maritime diplomacy principle is trying to balance Singapore’s maritime trade route hegemony in te Malacca Strait with improving port facilities and increasing its pilotage services