It has been more than a year since Indonesia and Vietnam concluded an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) agreement, yet the cartographic details of that deal remain unavailable to the public, and there has seemingly been little progress towards ratification of the agreement by the Indonesian parliament. When the agreement was signed in late 2023, scholars generally heralded it as a positive development, not only for Indonesia and Vietnam’s relationship but also for regional peace and security. It is unusual for an Indonesian treaty ratification process to extend beyond a single parliamentary session, and a failure to ratify the agreement will be undesirable.

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