Public awareness towards Malaysian airspace sovereignty and security / Akma Shafizah Mat Shohor and Hafiza Jamaludin

The issues of airspace sovereignty and security lies at the very heart of international aviation and national security forces. However, public also need to know the subjects in order to make them aware with the national sovereignty and patriotism. This study focuses on the relationship
between awareness factors with demographic characteristics and level of public awareness towards the airspace sovereignty and security in Malaysia. 150 sets of questionnaires were distributed to the flyers at three selected Malaysia International Airport. The findings shows that most of the respondents have no clear knowledge and awareness on sovereignty of national airspace. They also did not expose to the Airspace Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ). Thus, most of the respondents did not aware about sovereignty and security of national airspace. Due to the incident of MH370 most of the respondents agree that their interest to know about airspace increase. Therefore, one of the significant recommendation to make public aware with the airspace sovereignty and security is exposure by media especially alternatives medias.