Bisae Súnan
| Bisae Súnan | ||
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| height | 1560 m | |
| location | Abani , Oe-Cusse Ambeno , East Timor | |
| Coordinates | 9 ° 30 '8 " S , 124 ° 16' 41" O | |
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| particularities | Highest mountain of Oe-Cusse Ambeno | |
The Bisae Súnan ( Bijael Sunaen , Bidjael Sunan , Nuaf Bijae Sunan ) is the highest mountain in the East Timorese special administrative region Oe-Cusse Ambeno . It is 1560 m high and is located in Suco Abani , on the border with Indonesia .
Border conflict
The affiliation of the mountain and the area northeast of the summit, which is also called Área Cruz ( German cross ), was disputed for a long time, as the neighboring Indonesian village of Manusasi (district of West Miomaffo , administrative district of North Central Timor ) made a claim. Even Indonesian maps from the occupation (1975–1999) show largely the same borders as the old Portuguese and present-day East Timorese, but Indonesian villagers insisted that border changes from 1988 did not correctly reflect the true border. There were even different interpretations of the demarcation within the village communities. Indonesia officially requested that the disputed territory not be used, but Indonesians received permits to use the land, for example as grazing land. East Timorese feared reprisals, but did not accept the designation as no man's land. Already in the 1960s there was a dispute over the fertile region between the villages on both sides of the border, which is used for gardening.
In 1965, Portuguese police killed an Indonesian in this conflict. In 1972 and 1983 the regional dispute flared up again. In 1983 the conflict lasted for two months, during which several people were injured by stone throwing. The Indonesian governor of the then occupied East Timor, Mário Carrascalão, and the Indonesian interior minister, Rudini, had to mediate. In 2002 the UN peacekeeping forces agreed with Indonesia that the Indonesian army would be allowed to patrol parts of the area. It was hoped that a preliminary de-escalation agreement would be reached. In 2003 negotiations between East Timor and Indonesia were unsuccessful. Even East Timorese who fled to Indonesia after the crisis in East Timor in 1999 could not be repatriated. These former collaborators, including members of the Sakunar militia , exacerbate the border conflict. You are currently settling here on the Indonesian side of the border.
In June 2004, three East Timorese soldiers were arrested by Indonesian soldiers while they were looking for a runaway horse in the Indonesian patrol zone. After lengthy negotiations between officials on both sides, they were released. In July, a hundred to two hundred people threw stones at each other. Three people were injured.
On October 12, 2009, a handful of Indonesian soldiers and paramilitaries entered Área Cruz. According to the East Timorese press, they attacked a group of East Timorese who were setting up a border police station (UPF) on Bisae Súnan. The Indonesians confiscated the building material and took it across the border. They later said they thought it had been abandoned. Two days later, around 100 East Timorese began to carry stones from the nearby river up the mountain to build the station. The situation escalated when soldiers on the other side waved the Indonesian flag . UN officials and East Timorese police were able to calm the situation down until the villagers dispersed.
On July 23, 2019, after a meeting between East Timor's chief negotiator Xanana Gusmão and Wiranto , the Indonesian coordination minister for politics, law and security, it was announced that an agreement had now been reached on the course of the national border.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mapa do enclave de Oecussi Ambeno , AMOC - Associação dos Militares do Oecussi , accessed on June 24, 2014.
- ↑ Information page from Oecussi-Ambeno from 2007: Fatu Sinai Island ( Memento from July 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ a b c d Internet Exclusive: Border Dispute, Oekusi Enclave - 60,000 Timorese Inside Indonesia , Tempo Semanal, October 16, 2009 , accessed June 24, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Timor-Leste: Oecusse and the Indonesian Border , International Crises Group, Policy Briefing, Policy Briefing, Dili / Brussels, May 20, 2010 ( Memento of May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 24, 2014 .
- ↑ RTP: Timor-Leste e Indonésia chegam a acordo para definição de fronteira terrestre , July 23, 2019 , accessed on July 23, 2019.