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Originally Posted by fatty
I am not sure I understand your bit about p.46, can you maybe clarify?
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What I meant to say is, piracy, although not as common in the waters of the Philippine Islands/Republic of the Philippines as it is with its neighbor to the south (partially due to the fact that the shipping lanes in Indonesia are that much more active), is still present, this is due to the fact that inter island travel is very important. As with shipping to air transportation, shipping is a more cost effective alternative when time sensitivity is not an issue. However, in the Philippines there is as with Indonesia a very strong security presence which allows for enforcement of the nation's sovereignty which makes keeping a hijacked vessel very easy to target. Therefore, rather than taking ships, most often groups associated with terrorist organization, who use piracy as a funding source, rather than taking the vessel which would only tie them down to a single location, take individuals, and ransom the individuals instead. Illegal detention and ransoming of the vessel and cargo as you pointed out is only one part of modern ransom based piracy, the other part are the crew and/or passengers. Very often passengers of wealthy nations will be specifically targeted, usually from the west, because they can bring a higher ransom. Furthermore individuals are far more hide-able and transportable than vessels.
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Originally Posted by fatty
Regarding risk vs. gain as cost-effectiveness, and thanks for reminding me that this needs clarifying, you need to address both. You can bring in your navy or marine police and piracy will disappear, but to keep piracy down you're going to need to maintain a significant presence (deterrent) indefinitely, because as soon as you leave you can expect piracy to return. A perpetual security presence is an expensive prospect. On the other hand, if you want to develop a region, build roads, schools, warehouses or whatever, a lot of angry guys with RPGs and AKs are going to make that a little challenging. Think of it this way. If you, the coastal settlement, have only security, nobody is going to come and buy your fish because you aren't selling any. If you have only development, nobody is going to come and buy your fish because you chase everyone away in your speedboat with your RPG. The two approaches must go together.
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I see what you are talking about.
It's been my opinion that security breeds investment, which brings economic growth and local than regional prosperity. Provide a secure and lawful environment and the market needs of the population will eventually draw business to it, whether from outside sources or from within that area itself. Security will allow goods from that market to flow out safetly, and will allow goods from outside that market to flow in. Granted, because it's a near cashless system (due to lack of foreign capital), it may need to start on some sort of barter base at first, but eventually that'll change to a money based systems once things stabilize