Praditya Iqbal Tawakal, 49124426 N, 2017, "The Attack Prevention Pirates Model While Accros Somalia Water On MV. Mina Oldendorff" Diploma IV, Nautical, Semarang Merchant Marine Polytecnic, Preceptors: (I) Dr. Capt. Suwiyadi, M.pd., M.Mar. (II) Sri Suyanti, S.S., M.Si.
Piracy is becoming a major problem being experienced by the shipping industry. The threat of piracy has influenced the fluency of the shipping business, the most important is the salvation of the souls crew. Actually the crew was never trained to fight against piracy. Therefore, the companies usually hire the “army guard” services when the ship will pass through areas that have a risk of pirates attacks. When the author crossing the piracy hotspots, the author focuses to Somalia, author found the problem that there are many crew who are less familiar with the procedures that should be done to prevent the piracy, and also the crews assumption that if the ship has “army guard”, it can not be hijacked.
This writng describes the theories of piracy prevention that listed in “Best Management Practices for Prevention against Somalia Based Piracy”, the data that the author collected during sailing practice, also the actual data that the author collected from a variety of media. The method used by the writer is qualitatively to illustrate and describe the object that investigated.
Key words: Piracy, Somalia, Army guard
