International Environment Policy: Dispute of Indonesia’s Timor Sea due to The Montara Oil Spill (Australia)

Abstract

Sea is one of the greatest provider of natural resources for human. The pollution of the sea will harm humans, especially for those who seek livelihoods at the sea. The oil spill incident at sea caused by PTTEP had negative impacts on the aquatic ecosystem in Timor and on other people there. The Indonesian government also acted to ask for compensation by negotiations. To date, negotiations have not yielded results because the guilty parties were unable to compensate according to Indonesia's request. In the end, Indonesia will take legal action to resolve this dispute.