Military East Timor
Military branches:
East Timor Defense Force (Forcas de Defesa de Timor-L'este, FDTL):
Army, Navy
Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)
Military manpower - availability:
NA (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
NA (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
NA (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$4.4 million (FY03)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
NA
Transnational Issues East Timor
Disputes - international:
East Timor-Indonesia Boundary Committee continues to meet, survey,
and delimit the land boundary, but several sections of the boundary
especially around the Oekussi enclave remain unresolved; Indonesia
and East Timor contest the sovereignty of the uninhabited coral
island of Palau Batek/Fatu Sinai, which may delay decision on the
northern maritime boundaries; numbers of East Timor refugees in
Indonesia refuse repatriation; East Timor and Australia continue to
disagree over the delimitation of a permanent maritime boundary and
over the sharing of petroleum resources that fall outside the Joint
Petroleum Development Area covered by the 2002 Timor Sea Treaty