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http://sp.beritasatu.com/home/timor-leste-dan-australia-sepakati-batas-maritim-laut-timor/123115 *Timor Leste dan Australia Sepakati Batas Maritim Laut Timor * *C-5* | Jumat, 9 Maret 2018 | 6:04 [image: Ilustrasi perbatasan Timor Leste dengan Australia [Istimewa]] Ilustrasi perbatasan Timor Leste dengan Australia [Istimewa] [NEW YORK] Setelah hampir dua tahun melewati proses konsiliasi yang difasilitasi di bawah Konvensi Perserikatan Bangsa-bangsa (PBB) mengenai Hukum Laut, Timor Leste dan Australia akhirnya mencapai kesepakatan perbatasan maritim di Laut Timor. Perjanjian itu ditandatangani di markas PBB di New York, Selasa (6/3), oleh Menteri Luar Negeri Australia, Julie Bishop dan Menlu Timor Leste, Agio Pereira. Semua proses terkait akan dilengkapi di Canberra dan Dili. Ini adalah perkembangan terakhir Laut Timor yang diperebutkan selama 45 tahun baik oleh Australia, Portugal, Indonesia, dan Timor Leste. Kepemilikan dan kontrol cadangan minyak dan gas, beberapa masih belum dibangun, menjadi pusat perselisihan. Masing-masing pihak menjelaskan alasannya, terlepas dari perjanjian sebelumnya, tidak pernah ada penyelesaian konklusif atas batas laut. Kesepakatan baru itu memberikan Timor Leste jatah lebih besar dari perkiraan pendapatan energi sebesar US$ 53 miliar. Ini menjadi hasil akhir dari keputusan Timor Leste untuk membawa Australia kepada Pengadilan Arbitrasi Permanen PBB di Den Haag atas kesepakatan perjanjian maritim tahun 2006 antara kedua negara. Timor Leste berhasil memenangkan hak untuk meruntuhkan kesepakatan tahun 2006 dan memproses arbitrase di bawah naungan PBB. Kesepakatan baru ditandatangani tahun lalu dengan tujuan penandatanganan pada Maret 2018. Kesepakatan baru itu disambut di Dili oleh para politisi semua golongan yang akan maju dalam pemungutan suara dalam kurun dua bulan ke depan. “Kami sangat senang dengan hasilnya dan fakta bahwa kami menandatangani kesepakatan maritim antara Timor Leste dan Australia,” kata pemimpin parlemen dari Partai Demokratik Rakyat, Fidelis Magalhaes. “Saya tidak berpikir Australia cukup baik. Saya pikir ini terlalu panjang dan proses telah ditunda selama setahun, tapi setidaknya sekarang ada solusi perbaasan permanen antara dua negara dan Timor Leste mendapatkan apa yang berhak diterimanya, jadi saya pikir ini melibatkan amal dan kebaikan dari pihak Australia,” tambah Magalhaes. Menurutnya, kesepakatan itu juga berarti negaranya memiliki kontrol lebih baik atas sumber-sumber maritim seperti perikanan. Namun, pembicaraan parlalel antara kedua negara dan sindikat energi Australia seperti Woodside, perusahaan energi Amerika, Canoco Phillips, dan Royal Dutch Shell terhambat mengenai apakah gas akan diproses di Darwin atau lepas pantai selatan Timor Leste sebagai hub energi terbaru yang sedang dikembangkan. Jika dilakukan di Darwin, Timor Leste akan mendapat 80% pendapatan, tapi jika di Timor hanya 70. [The Guardian/ucanews/C-5] ++++++p Australia, East Timor agreement over $50 billion oil and gas field By Lindsay Murdoch Updated26 February 2018 — 6:26pmfirst published at 11:34am *Bangkok: *Australia and East Timor will sign a landmark agreement aimed at opening the way to share revenue from the $50 billion Greater Sunrise oil and gas field in the Timor Sea at the United Nations next week. But intense negotiations have so far failed to settle how the field could be exploited by a Woodside Energy-led consortium. Recommendations by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, which has overseen negotiations between the neighbouring countries, on how the dispute should be settled are expected to be released in mid-April. East Timor’s former prime minister and president Xanana Gusmao, who has led his country's negotiations, has insisted the gas to be piped to East Timor. Photo: AP United Nations Secretary-General Antonio is set to witness the signing of a new Maritime Boundaries agreement in New York on March 6. Details of the agreement have not been made public. The agreement will then have to be ratified by the parliaments of both East Timor and Australia. East Timor’s Parliament has been dissolved after a months-long political impasse and fresh elections are scheduled for May. The signing in New York will end years of bitter disagreement over the boundary which successive Australian governments refused to negotiate for years. Related Article East Timor dissolves Parliament in effort to solve political standoff <https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/east-timor-dissolves-parliament-in-effort-to-solve-political-standoff-20180126-p4yyx3.html> The Portuguese news agency Lusa reported in early February from Dili that East Timor could receive up to 80 per cent of revenue from the field which would secure its economic future for decades if the field is developed. Lusa quoted sources saying East Timor would receive 70 per cent of the revenue if gas is piped to a yet-to-be built industrial complex on East Timor’s south coast. Neither Australia or East Timor have commented on the report. A Woodside Energy Limited-led consortium has been involved in negotiations over the treaty which concluded in Kuala Lumpur last week. The consortium initially said it wanted to build a floating LNG platform to process gas from the field. Another option is the pipe the gas to an existing processing plant in Darwin. But East Timor’s former prime minister and president Xanana Gusmao, who has led his country's negotiations, has insisted the gas to be piped to East Timor. A spokeswoman for Woodside said: “We hope that the Commission’s conclusions and the signing of the Treaty will help to provide the fiscal and regulatory certainty required to develop Greater Sunrise for the benefit all parties.”
