Editing Strait of Malacca (section)

== United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ==
The [[United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]] (UNCLOS) states that each coastal state has their territorial waters from the baseline and 12 nautical miles out.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Bueger & Edmunds |first=Christian & Timothy |title=Understanding Maritime Security |date=23 May 2024 |publisher=Oxford Academic |pages=30–59}}</ref> The UNCLOS framework’s legal limits to maritime boundaries has at times heightened tensions in the Strait of Malacca.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=McCabe |first=Robert C. |title=Modern Maritime Piracy: Genesis, Evolution and Responses |publisher=Routledge |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-138-05944-3 |pages=276–277}}</ref> An example of this can be seen from several pirate attacks in the 1990's and 2000's which took place in the territorial waters of Indonesia and were thus classified as armed robberies, not [[piracy]]. Indonesia lacked resources to tackle the pirates and thus territorial rivalry heightened in the area. The increase in tension made it easier for pirates to evade law enforcement by traversing maritime border in order to avoid capture.<ref name=":3" />