Maubesi (Silawan)
 
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Maubesi in East Nusa Tenggara
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Maubesi ( Maubessi ) was a small territory in what is now the border between Indonesia and East Timor on the Savu Sea .
Around 1900 this was one of the disputed areas on the border between the colonial powers Portugal in the east and the Netherlands in the west. On June 25, 1914, the Swiss judge Charles Édouard Lardy from the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague made an arbitral award (Sentenca Arbitral) . The land survey work to determine the course of the border was completed in April 1915. On August 17, 1916, a treaty between Portugal and the Netherlands was signed in The Hague , which established the border between East and West Timor , which largely still exists today . On November 21st, the territories were exchanged and Maubesi was therefore clearly under the control of the Netherlands.
Today, the area of Maubesi forms a large part of the Indonesian Desa Silawan (District Osttasifeto , Region Belu ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hague Justice Portal: Island of Timor: Award - Boundaries in the Island of Timor ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report by CAVR (English)
- ↑ Map of the Belu administrative district
Coordinates: 8 ° 58 ′ S , 124 ° 57 ′ E