Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface by Xanana Gusmao
- Preface by Carlos Belo
- Preface by José Ramos Horta
- Preface by Asian Development Bank
- PART I Introduction
- PART II Managing the Macroeconomy
- PART III International Economic Relations
- 4 Trade and Commercial Policy
- 5 East Timor's Economic Relations with Indonesia
- PART IV Agriculture and the Rural Economy
- PART V Institutions
- PART VI Banking and Finance
- PART VII Social Policy
- PART VIII Lessons from International Experience
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
5 - East Timor's Economic Relations with Indonesia
from PART III - International Economic Relations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface by Xanana Gusmao
- Preface by Carlos Belo
- Preface by José Ramos Horta
- Preface by Asian Development Bank
- PART I Introduction
- PART II Managing the Macroeconomy
- PART III International Economic Relations
- 4 Trade and Commercial Policy
- 5 East Timor's Economic Relations with Indonesia
- PART IV Agriculture and the Rural Economy
- PART V Institutions
- PART VI Banking and Finance
- PART VII Social Policy
- PART VIII Lessons from International Experience
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
SETTING THE RIGHT POLICIES
President Abdurrahman Wahid's visit to East Timor in February 2000 paved the way for an important process of reconciliation between Indonesia and East Timor. This process may bring about more far-reaching results than reconciliation, namely Indonesia's constructive role in the development of East Timor as an independent state. Following that visit, an agreement was reached between Indonesia and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) to initiate structured discussions covering a broad range of issues. These will help lay the foundation for relations between Indonesia and a post- UNTAET East Timor.
As stipulated in the Joint Communique between the Republic of Indonesia and UNTAET, dated 29 February 2000, the discussions would include:
the repatriation and resettlement of East Timorese refugees currently in West Timor;
the scope for mutual assistance in legal, judicial and human rights matters;
the delineation of land and maritime borders and regulation of cross-border relations, including a transit corridor between Oecussi, East Timor's enclave in West Timor, and the main territory of East Timor;
the orderly settlement of mutual claims and liabilities, including extending access to East Timorese to their deposits in Indonesian banks;
the regularization of payments of state pensions to retired East Timorese employees of the Indonesian government, as well as the determination of the status of the cumulative contributions of East Timorese public servants to the Indonesian state pension system up to August 1999;
the maintenance of educational opportunities and scholarships for East Timorese students in Indonesian educational institutions;
the definition of the trade regime, which will affect bilateral commercial relations and the re-establishment of trade relations;
the establishment of agreements to develop aviation, commercial transport and communications links between Indonesia and East Timor; and
the rebuilding of East Timor's archives and records, such as property titles, the taxpayers’ registry, judicial and police records, and census and civil records.
The fourth meeting between the government of Indonesia and UNTAET under the Joint Communique was held in February 2001.
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- East TimorDevelopment Challenges for the World's Newest Nation, pp. 84 - 96Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak InstitutePrint publication year: 2001