Abstract:
This research explains the framework of Treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements
in the Timor Sea (CMATS) to manage the Greater Sunrise project between Timor
Leste and Australia from 2006 to 2010. Maritime boundaries issues between Timor
Leste and Australia have been ongoing since three decades ago. Timor Leste since
independence in 2002 until today, has reached three agreements with Australia,
those are Timor Sea Treaty, Sunrise International Unitisation Agreement and
CMATS Treaty. Those three agreements, especially CMATS Treaty, define the
cooperative management of oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea, but it does not
solve the basic problems of the maritime boundary claims of the two countries.
