Hasjim Djalal

Hasjim Djalal (* 25. February 1934 in Ampat angkat, Bukittinggi , West Sumatra ) is an Indonesian diplomat and lawyer , the expert on maritime law and several times ambassador was.

Life

After graduating from school in 1953, Djalal began training at the Academy for the Foreign Service and joined the Foreign Ministry on January 1, 1957. It was first used between 1957 and 1962 at the Diplomatic Mission in Irian , which was then part of Dutch New Guinea and which was placed under the administration of the United Nations in October 1962 . During this time he also completed postgraduate studies at the University of Virginia in 1959 , which he completed with a Master of Arts (MA). In 1961 he received a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) with a dissertation entitled The Limit and Territorial Sea in International Law .

After his return he was employed in the legal department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1962 and then in 1964 of the embassy in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). In 1967, after Indonesia's resumption of active UN membership, he became an expert in preparation for the 3rd UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 3) and in 1969 he was a member of the Permanent Mission to the UN in New York City, and in 1971 he took part in a conference on African-Asian unity in Colombo . In 1973 he became a member of the delegation to the 3rd UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, which drafted the Convention on the Law of the Sea , signed on December 10, 1982 . In the meantime he worked for the embassy in Japan from 1974 to 1975 .

In 1981 Djalal became Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City with the rank of Ambassador and worked there until 1983. He then acted as ambassador to Canada between 1983 and 1985 and then as director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1990, before he was ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany between 1990 and 1993 . Most recently he held the post of Ambassador (Dubes Keliling) from 1994 to 2000 . At the same time he became a member of the Indonesian Sea Council in 1996 and also took on a professorship at the Padjadjaran University in Bandung and in 1999 he was an advisor to the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. In 2001 he also became a Fellow of the East West Center of the University of Hawaii System .

Publications

• The Limit and Territorial Sea in International Law , 1961
• Indonesian Struggle for the Law of the Sea , 1979
• Indonesia and the Law of the Sea , 1995

Web links

• Entry in Tokoh Indonesia
• Pejuang Negara Kepulauan in Tokoh Indonesia
• Entry in prabook.com