Territorial Disputes of Indonesia - Ambalat, Papua Conflict, Sipadan, Ilaga, Ligitan (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Ambalat is a sea block in the Sulawesi sea (also known as now redundant: Celebes Sea) which is currently in part of Indonesia sovereignty. Ambalat sea block is located off the coast of the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan and south-east of the Malaysian state of Sabah. Malaysia refers to part of the Ambalat block as Block ND6 (formerly Block Y) and part of East Ambalat Block as Block ND7 (formerly Block Z). The deep sea blocks contain an estimated 62 million barrels of oil and 348 million cubic meters of natural gas. Other estimates place it substantially higher: 764 million barrels of oil and 3.96 10 cubic meters (1.4 trillion cubic feet) of gas, in only one of nine points in Ambalat The dispute over the Ambalat stretch of the Celebes Sea began with the publication of a map produced by Malaysia in 1979 . Showing its territorial waters and continental shelf. The map drew Malaysia's maritime boundary running in a southeast direction in the Celebes Sea from the eastmost point of the Indonesia-Malaysia land border on the eastern shore of Sebatik island, thus including the Ambalat blocks, or at least a large portion of it, within Malaysian territorial waters. Indonesia has, like the other neighbours of Malaysia, objected to the map. Indonesia had since 1959 claimed the islands of Sipadan and Ligitan, which in 1979 Malaysia included to be its archipelagic basepoints and again in June 2002. This effectively put the entire Ambalat area within its internal waters. During the International Court of Justice (ICJ) case over the sovereignty of Sipadan and Ligitan islands, Indonesia argued from the perspective of historic bi-lateral Agreements between Britain and the Netherlands over the issue of possessions. Indonesia quoted Con... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=8175509