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The political economy of cross-border relations : the TNI and East Timor

Kingsbury, Damien 2003, The political economy of cross-border relations : the TNI and East Timor, South East Asia research, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 269-296.

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Title The political economy of cross-border relations : the TNI and East Timor
Author(s) Kingsbury, Damien
Journal name South East Asia research
Volume number 11
Issue number 3
Start page 269
End page 296
Publisher I P Publishing Ltd.
Place of publication London, England
Publication date 2003-11-01
ISSN 0967-828X
Keyword(s) military
military business
smuggling
bilateral relations
militias
Summary Within a framework of formally increasingly cordial bilateral relations, the Indonesian military, the TNI, was engaging in and allowing extensive cross-border trade and smuggling while pursuing a policy of limited cross-border destabilization of East Timor. This seemingly contradictory policy, run from the TNI's 'strategic command centre' in Atambua, West Timor, met the TNI's continuing need to fund its own activities (and those of its proxies) through both legal and illegal means, to provide leverage for the coming talks about the formal demarcation of the border, and to provide a foothold to longer-term irredentist claims to the former occupied province and now independent state.
Language eng
Field of Research 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2003, IP Publishing Ltd. Reproduced by permission.
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30002311

Document type: Journal Article
Collections: School of Social and International Studies
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