PENEGAKAN HUKUM TERHADAP PEMBAJAKAN DI LAUT MELALUI YURISDIKSI MAHKAMAH PIDANA INTERNASIONAL (SUATU UPAYA MENGHAPUS BUDAYA IMPUNITAS)
Abstract
The international community, nowadays is facing the most serious problem of the
piracy in the sea on a large scale than ever before. Todays piracy is destroying and
disturbing the shipping industry worldwide with the modern way, the problem of
piracy becomes increase day by day rather than to decrease. It is universally called
as hostis humani generis. The piracy today is directed against victims from around
the world, creates harms that are felt by the international community, and involves
many of the same violation, as like as a murder and hostage-taking, that are used to
commit the crimes within the jurisdiction of International Court of Justice (ICC).
The main purpose of this paper is to describe the piracy in details which could be
seen in some international laws concerning this problem as for UNCLOS 1982 and
SUA Convention 1988. This paper also will elaborate how piracy could be called
as a crime under international law, as well as the jurisdiction of the ICC. This
permanent international judicial body is empowered to prosecute crimes of concern
to the international community as a whole, in accordance with the Rome Statute
1998 and ICC is expected to fullfil the impunity as the biggest obstacle for
countries to bring the pirates into the justice.