Abstract
Prior to arriving in Kuala Lumpur, I was in charge of organising the geographical data on Indonesia. including hydrographical or topographical survey reports and maps of neighboring States showing the location of islands and delimitation constructions. I asked the Head of theGroup for the opportunity to collect abroad those informations for a last check of Indonesian territory and delimitation lines based on foreign maps . Malaysian maps were made by the British who had been using datum that were different from those of the maps of tile former Netherlands East-Indies. In this connection, I was aware of numbers of foreign maps which showed the international boundary between Indonesia and Malaysia running due east from the Island of Sebatik along the 4° 10'N parallel established by the 1891 Convention between The Netherlandsand Great Britain.
Highlights
I was positioned as the head of planning section in the Hydrographic Office with the rank of Major and during the boundary meeting I was appointed on behalf of the Hyd rog raphic Office as Indonesian delegation
During the month of September 1969, delegations from Indonesia and Malaysia met in Kuala Lumpur to negotiate the continenta l she lf boundary between them in four different areas the Straits of Malacca, the eastern and western sectors of the South China Sea. and the area lying off East Kalimantan and Sabah in the Sulawesi Sea
Prior to arriving in Kuala Lumpur, I was in charge of organ ising the geographical data on Indonesia. including hydrographical or topographical survey reports and maps of neighboring States showing the location of islands and delimitation constructions
Summary
I asked the Head of the Group for the opportunity to collect abroad those informations for a last check of Indonesian territory and delimitation lines based on foreign maps . From 10-13 September 1969, I. together with may Indonesian colleagues - Major Oemarijoto and Mr Soembarjono - met with the Malaysian technical group, consisting of Mr Hadji Yatim (Director of Malaysia 's National Mapping), Kok Swee Tuck and several other Malaysian Cartographers, to plot the continemal shelf boundary in the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea. In drawing those construction lines, we encountered two major problems.
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