ASEAN Collective Responsibility in Upholding Sovereignty in South China Sea Exclusive Economic Zone
ASEAN Collective Responsibility in Upholding Sovereignty in South China Sea Exclusive Economic Zone

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to explain the urgencies of ASEAN Regional Cooperation in upholding the South China Sea Exclusive Economic Zone. Furthermore, this article also explains how such regional cooperation can effectively be applied by ASEAN according to international law rules and principles. This article is legal research based on the theoretical framework by gathering legal scholars' opinions and normative framework by gathering related articles in international treaties. By applying these frameworks, the authors gathered the data for this article through secondary data collection in a form of primary sources, secondary sources, and tertiary sources. In discussing the urgency of the article herein, the authors found out that ASEAN as an international organization consisting of sovereign states shall exercise its primary obligations under UNCLOS 1982 and ASEAN Charter in a good faith, ASEAN shall exercise its sovereign rights on the South China Sea EEZ according to the coastal state rights entitled by UNCLOS 1982, and ASEAN shall prevent the potential armed conflict due to the tension of China, Taiwan and the AUKUS Pact in this region. Meanwhile, the mechanism applied by ASEAN is through interdependent national law enforcement, based on each member state’s law regarding maritime resources conservation and environmental protection. Through this measure, ASEAN may conduct their cooperation despite each of their responses to China’s Hegemony and AUKUS Existence. In presenting the outcome of this article, the authors emphasized the three urgencies described above and the framework of the regional cooperation regarding the interdependent national law enforcement with the respect to the second analysis herein. Such collective consent is indeed significant, to uphold each ASEAN Member States EEZ’s political sovereignty and territorial integrity.

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