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Transactions on Maritime Science, Vol. 13 No. 2, 2024.

Review article

https://doi.org/10.7225/toms.v13.n02.009

Optimization of Legal Protection for the Leato Wreck Site: Discourse on Cultural Heritage Law and Maritime Conservation Law

Jufryanto Puluhulawa ; Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Faculty of Law, Gorontalo, Indonesia *
Fenty U. Puluhulawa ; Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Faculty of Law, Gorontalo, Indonesia
Vifi Swarianata ; Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Faculty of Law, Gorontalo, Indonesia
Amanda Adelina Harun ; Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Faculty of Law, Gorontalo, Indonesia
Irlan Puluhulawa ; Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Faculty of Law, Gorontalo, Indonesia

* Corresponding author.

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Abstract

Cultural heritage regulations and maritime conservation area regulations intersect and overlap in terms of legal protection, and nowhere is this more obvious than at the Leato underwater site/Japanese cargo ship wreck, referred to as the Leato wreck site in this paper. This legal issue later became a stumbling block in optimizing the legal protection of the Leato/Japanese cargo wreck underwater site. The study used two approaches: the statute approach and the conceptual approach. Analysis: a shipwreck can be defined as a catastrophic event that occurred in the past, with potential socio-economic benefits in the future, contingent upon optimal efforts to conserve history and culture, with great socio-economic potential if its exploitation is successfully optimized, with an eye to conservation efforts. The combination of these legally binding regulations is the key to optimizing the legal protection of the Leato underwater site. The maritime conservation area regulations safeguard the shipwreck's location as an integrated and interconnected ecosystem. By contrast, cultural heritage regulations protect the core zone of the Leato underwater site as a maritime cultural heritage from potential natural or human-caused damage. Other important issues that need to be considered are the empowerment of local communities in realizing a sustainable environment and cooperation between institutions in maintaining and preserving underwater cultural heritage.

Keywords

Cultural heritage law; Legal protection; Leato wreck site; Maritime conservation law; Optimization

Hrčak ID:

321962

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/321962

Publication date:

21.10.2024.

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