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Island in focus: Australia asks PTTEP to settle oil spill : Activist
The Australian government has asked Thailand-based oil-and-gas producer PTTEP Australasia, which has acknowledged responsibility for a 2009 oil-spill in the Timor Sea, to completely settle the contamination case, an activist said on Sunday
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he Australian government has asked Thailand-based oil-and-gas producer PTTEP Australasia, which has acknowledged responsibility for a 2009 oil-spill in the Timor Sea, to completely settle the contamination case, an activist said on Sunday.
'The Australian government's statement, through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, was expressed during a meeting with me in Canberra on Thursday,' chairman of the Wet Timor Care Foundation (YPTB) Ferdi Tanoni told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.
Ferdi, who once received the Civil Justice Award from the Australian Lawyers Alliance in 2013, said the company should respond to Australia's call to settle the case. 'If there is no response from the company by Sept. 25, we [on behalf of East Nusa Tenggara people] will sue PTTEP in an Australian court,' he said.
The Indonesian government has reportedly demanded that the company pay compensation of Rp 23 trillion (US$1.6 billion) in compensation for damages.
