Problems with Energy Security and Environment in Maritime Border of Timor Leste
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-2-38476-236-1_10How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Energy Dependence; Environment Damage; Maritime Disputes; Timor Leste Oil; Montara Issue
- Abstract
After being separated from Indonesia’s sovereign territory, Timor Leste has the most obvious energy issues because its oil wealth is located on the disputed maritime border with Australia. This energy wealth is Timor Leste’s advantage and bargaining chip, but it is also its weakness because this country is too dependent on natural oil resources for its economic growth. This research will study two main ideas: identifying Timor Leste energy security problems in the maritime border region with Australia and how it impacted to the environmental damage. To analyze this, this research will apply the concept of energy security to identify the biggest problem of Timor Leste, namely energy dependence, and environmental damage due to oil spills in the maritime border of the two countries. This study formulates several impacts related to aspects of political-economic impact, environmental impact. There are economic issues with Timor Leste’s oil reserves, which are predicted to run out soon because Timor Leste’s oil revenues have declined dramatically.
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TY - CONF AU - Uni W. Sagena AU - Sandrina Elhandari AU - Masjaya AU - Ishaq Rahman AU - Mohd. Dino Khairri Sharifuddin PY - 2024 DA - 2024/04/29 TI - Problems with Energy Security and Environment in Maritime Border of Timor Leste BT - Proceedings of the World Conference on Governance and Social Sciences (WCGSS 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 82 EP - 91 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-236-1_10 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-236-1_10 ID - Sagena2024 ER -