The Scramble for Colonial Crumbs
January 14, 2003
WHO actually owns Sipadan and Ligitan? Indonesia claims sovereignty over the tiny dots of sand-on-water pursuant to a treaty made by the Dutch and the British in 1891 settling the borders of the
Nono Anwar Makarim*
* Chairman Executive Board of the Aksara Foundation; this essay was written with the assistance, and on the basis of research done by the International Law Moot Court Society of the Faculty of Law of the University of Indonesia.