Strait of Malacca is an important port of international trade in Malaysia in modern times, it is used to call it in the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian jurisdiction of Sumatra between the long straits. Strait was southeast - northwest direction. It is the western part of the Myanmar Sea, the southeast end of the South China Sea. The whole length of the strait is about 1080 km, the northwest is 370 km wide, and the narrowest point of the Singapore Straits in the southeast is only 37 km. It is an international waterway connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. As the Japanese archipelago lack of crude oil as the representative of underground energy, and the Malacca Strait is Japan's most important energy transport corridor, so the Malacca Strait is also known as Japan's "sea lifeline". (Note: the Western countries as the lifeline of the sea is the Strait of Hormuz), the Strait is now Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, the three co-jurisdiction.
