The data displays the total number of actual and attempted piracy attacks in Indonesian territorial waters from 2008 to 2017. In 2017, there were 43 actual and attempted piracy attacks in Indonesia.
Piracy attacks in Indonesia
Piracy attacks in Indonesian waters spiked in 2015, when 108 incidents were reported. One of the most obvious reasons why Southeast Asia’s biggest economy has come under threat from maritime crime is the region’s abundance in natural gas and petroleum resources: In 2016, Indonesia was ranked among the world’s biggest exporting countries of liquefied natural gas.
