What is it about?
This article describe how in early 2025 an unknown number of people put up bamboo sticks in the coastal sea areas in Tangerang in Indonesia. These bamboo sticks resulted in a line of almost 30 km long, and fenced / closed off a coastal sea and land area.
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Why is it important?
Analysing the sea fences is a way to study rights, restrictions and responsibilities of land and sea spaces in coastal areas. Spatial planning in coastal areas is often disconnected by different systems of spatial planning - either the land area and the sea area. The example of the sea fences shows however that it is necessary to look at the land and sea areas together in an integrated manner.
Perspectives
This article is relevant because it relies on documented evidence on the informal claims of space on coastal areas, both the sea and the land. We used academic methods to understand how , where and when the sea fences were constructed and how these represent conflicting claims over coastal land and sea spaces.
Professor Walter Timo de Vries
Technical University of Munich
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This page is a summary of: Balancing Between Land and Sea Rights—An Analysis of the ‘Pagar Laut’ (Sea Fences) in Tangerang, Indonesia, Land, July 2025, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/land14071382.
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