THE GOVERNMENT REPUBLIC OF INDONESIAACT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIANUMBER : 6 OF 1996DATED: AUGUST 8, 1996REINDONESIAN WATERSTHE PRESIDENT OF THEREPUBLIC OF INDONESIA,Considering a. that based on the historical facts and the viewpoint of the Indonesiannation, the State of theRepublic of Indonesia, which was proclaimed on August 13, 1945, as anarcghipelago state with the Declaration dated December 17, 1957 and Act Number4 prp of 1960 on Indonesian Waters, has stipulated the waters territory of theState of the Republic of Indonesia;b. that the Indonesian nation has succeeded instriving for the legal concept of Archipelago State, by the inclusion ofprovisions on legal principles and regime of Archipelago State in Chapter IV ofthe United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which was ratified by Actnumber 17 of 1985 on Ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Lawof the Sea;c. that the regulation of the archipelago state lawa...