ABSTRACT
This chapter first looks at Malaysia’s foreign policy with respect to law of the sea issues, providing a brief history of various efforts at settlement of disputes in recent times. Two prominent cases are the ICJ adjudication of the Ligitan and Sipadan dispute with Indonesia and the Pulau Batu Puteh-Pedra Branca dispute with Singapore. With respect to the South China Sea (SCS), Malaysia has staked its claims on and occupied a number of reefs and atolls based on the publication of its 1979 map, which extends its continental shelf along the Sabah and Sarawak coast into the Spratlys and Kalayaan area.
