Assessing the Evolution of Maritime Strategy in the Asia Pacific

The end of the Cold War has provided an opportunity for scholars to do an in-depth study on the concept of maritime security, especially in the Asia Pacific region. One of the most important but often neglected concepts is maritime strategy which has been developing for centuries. Maritime strategy is designed for states’ survival and to protect their national interests. Nevertheless there is no ‘one size fits all’ concept. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyse the similarities and differences between continental states such as the United States, and India, and maritime states such as Indonesia, Japan, Australia, and Singapore in implementing their maritime strategy. In an attempt to present the results, we have reviewed secondary data mainly from the literature written by scholars in the field. Preliminary findings suggests that countries, either continental or maritime states, designed their maritime strategy for national security reasons. States aim to survive in the unknown international political arena. However, domestic and socioeconomic factors such as economic growth, geostrategic interest as well as nature of threats, may have shaped differences among states’ maritime strategy. The emerging non-traditional threats such narcotic trafficking, terrorism and human smuggling, have contributed to the threats for many states, this further justifies the importance of maritime strategy.

Pertanggungjawaban Pidana Terhadap Pelaku Penyalahgunaan Narkotika yang Dilakukan Narapidana di Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Way Huwi Provinsi Lampung

In the current era of Narcotic trafficking involves not only the society, but also the network of citizens in the status of convicted criminal in the Correctional Institution. The problems of this research are: a. causing factors of Narcotics abuse that conducted by convicted criminal, b. How is criminal responsibility to the Narcotic abusers that conducted by convicted criminal, c. How efforts to overcome Narcotics abuse that conducted by convicted criminal in the Narcotic Correctional Institution Class II A Bandar Lampung. The results of this research indicate that (1) Causing factors of Narcotics abuse that conducted by convicted criminal in the Narcotic Correctional Institution Class II A Bandar Lampung namely there is an intrinsic and extrinsic factor, and then the existence of market of Narcotics traffiking in the Correctional Institution. (2) Criminal responsibility to the Narcotic abusers conducted by convicted criminal in the Narcotic Correctional Institution Class II A Bandar Lampung which is based on errors that meet the element against the law and there is no reason for the elimination of the unlawful nature of the deed. The criminal responsibility is that the defendant can be convicted, then the Panel of Judges sentence to the defendant who is still have a status of convicted criminal. (3) Efforts to overcome Narcotics abuse conducted by convicted criminal in the Narcotic Correctional Institution Class II A Bandar Lampung by using non-penal (counseling, social education, resocialization, on convicted criminal with have Narcotics track record) and penal ways are done by legal effort based on provisions of legislation.

The Outfit

This chapter examines the activities of organized crime in Chicago after 1950, with particular emphasis on the Chicago Outfit. It begins with a discussion of the Outfit's takeover of all illegal gambling in Chicago as well as its connection with Chicago mayor Ed Kelly and the political protection given to vice activities in Chicago. It then considers the often confusing relationship between the Outfit and narcotic trafficking, along with the role that African Americans played in Outfit activities, including policy gambling and the distribution of heroin in the black community. It also reviews the history of the West Side Bloc, a group of elected public officials who supported the efforts of organized crime in Chicago, and how it contributed to the rise of racket subcultures in Chicago's “street crew” neighborhoods. The chapter concludes with an assessment of government efforts against organized crime, noting that one of the reasons for the existence of organized crime was the failure of local municipalities and the national government to take effective enforcement action against it.

Pemberdayaan Nelayan Lokal Indonesia Untuk Mengatasi Penyelundupan di Batam

AbstrakMengontrol laut berjuta kilometer persegi membuat Indonesia memiliki batas maritim besar. Dibutuhkan sumber daya yang sangat besar untuk mengontrol perbatasan maritim secara optimal. Pengawasan untuk memastikan perbatasan tidak digunakan sebagai lintasan perdagangan gelap, perdagangan narkotika, dan penyelundupan senjata. Sayangnya, Indonesia belum memiliki kekuatan pokok minimum untuk mengontrol batas-batasnya. Sumber daya yang terbatas tercermin dalam Direktorat Jenderal Bea dan Cukai (DJBC) Kantor Batam, Kepulauan Riau. Agen avant garde dalam pencegahan penyelundupan tidak memiliki cukup tenaga dan kapal untuk rutin berpatroli di sekitar Batam, kota per-batasan yang terletak di Indonesia, dan perbatasan Malaysia-Singapura. Akibatnya, Batam menjadi salah satu pintu masuk dan keluar dari berbagai selundupan. Oleh karena itu, keterlibatan aktor-aktor non-negara untuk menjadi salah satu alternatif untuk mengatasi penyelundupan. Salah satu aktor negara di Batam adalah pelaut Indonesia lokal yang memiliki lebih banyak orang dan kapal dari DJBC.Kata-kata kunci: penyelundupan, keamanan maritime, manajemen perbatasan, actor non Negara, pelaut local AbstractControl million of square kilometres ocean making Indonesia has enormous maritime boundaries. It takes enormous resources to control the maritime border optimally. Supervision, apropos, to ensure the border is not used as the trajec-tory of illicit trade, narcotic trafficking, and arms smuggling. Unfortunately, Indonesia hasn�t had minimum essential force to control her boundaries yet. Limited resources was reflected in Directorate General of Custom and Excise (DGCE) Office Batam, Riau Islands. Avant garde agent in smuggling prevention does not have enough personnel and ships to routinely patrol around Batam, border city located in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore boundaries. Conse-quently, Batam become one of the entrances and exits of various contraband. . Therefore, the involvement of non-state actors to be one alternative to overcome smuggling. One state actors in Batam is a local Indonesian seafarer who has more people and boats than DJBC.Keywords : smuggling, maritime security, boundaries management, non-state actors, local fisheries

The Constitutionality of Involuntary Civil Commitment of Opiate Addicts

This paper deals with the constitutionality of involuntary treatment of opiate addicts. Although the first laws permitting involuntary treatment of opiate addicts were enacted in the second half of the nineteenth century, addicts were not committed in large numbers until California and New York enacted new civil commitment legislation in the 1960s. Inevitably, the courts were called upon to decide if involuntary treatment was constitutional. Both the California and New York courts decided that it was. These decisions were heavily influenced by statements made by the United States Supreme Court in Robinson v. California. The Robinson case did not actually involve the constitutionality of involuntary treatment; it involved the question of whether it was constitutional for a state to make addiction a crime. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court declared (in a dictum) that a state might establish a program of compulsory treatment for opiate addicts either to discourage violation of its criminal laws against narcotic trafficking or to safeguard the general health or welfare of its inhabitants. Presumably because the Robinson case did not involve the constitutionality of involuntary treatment of opiate addicts, the Supreme Court did not go into that question as deeply as it might have. The California and New York courts, in turn, relied too much on this dictum and did not delve deeply into the question. The New York courts did a better job than the California courts, but their work too was not as good as it should have been.