Reported attacks against commercial ships worldwide have tripled over the past decade, increasing last year alone by 40 percent.¹¹ In 1999, nearly two-thirds of the attacks occurred in Asia, with 113 of the 285 reported cases taking place in Indonesian territorial waters and ports. The risk of attack is increasing. Ninety percent of the world trade moves via ship, and forty-five percent of all world shipping transits the pirate-infested waters of Asia. Clearly, piracy or "sea robbery" is an increasing threat to global trade.

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11 Gary Stubblefield and Bill Parlatore, "Condition Yellow", Passagemaker, Winter 1999, p. 85 quoted in Heritage Foundation paper