19 March 2015 - The Philippine Embassy in Jakarta and the Indonesian Council on World Affairs (ICWA) co-organized a lecture delivered by Philippine Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on March 12 at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Caraka Loka building. 

Justice Carpio discussed the scope and nature, as well as legal questions, raised by the Philippines in its arbitration case filed under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), with the aim of providing the Indonesian audience with a deeper understanding of the Philippines’ case. 

Officials from the Indonesian government, including representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Ministry of Defense, the Indonesian Armed Forces, the House of Representatives, and the Supreme Court attended the lecture, along with members of the diplomatic corps, the academe, think tanks, and the media.  The ICWA registered more than 380 attendees of the event.

After the lecture, Justice Carpio gave in-depth media interviews with Berita Satu TV, The Jakarta Globe and The Jakarta Post. END