Determination of Boundaries of Regional Marine Management Area in Central Sulawesi Province against Surrounding Provinces

Determining the boundaries of marine management areas is very important for an area to obtain the authority in order to manage natural resources in its territorial sea as regulated in the law on regional government for exploration, exploitation, and management of marine resources. The legal basis for determining the boundaries of marine management areas is regulated in Law Number 23 of 2014 concerning Regional Government and Minister of Home Affairs Regulation Number 141 of 2017 concerning Regional Boundary Affirmations. The two legal bases are sufficient to be used as a reference in determining the boundaries of marine management for the Province of Central Sulawesi and the boundaries for the division of regional marine space for each district and city. Central Sulawesi Province has many islands around there and most of the districts and cities are coastal areas, it is deemed necessary to determine the boundaries of marine management and the division of district/municipal marine space. The method used is the baseline method, which is using the normal baseline. Based on the results obtained, the area of marine management in Central Sulawesi Province is 73,519.507 km2. For making the median line, namely between the Provinces of Central Sulawesi and North Maluku because there is an overlapping area of 1,218.042 km2. In the results obtained in the division of regency/municipal sea space, the total area is 3,3592.222 km2.The largest marine spatial distribution area is in Banggai Laut Regency with an area of 5,913.362 km2 and the smallest is Palu City at 102.024 km2.