[TimorGap] has signed its first exploration joint venture agreement…[a]nd the government has secured the land for the start of its onshore processing base. Landowners have agreed to hand over more than 11-hundred hectares for a ten per cent share of future profits….Charles Scheiner…researcher with…East Timor's Institutue for Development, Monitoring and Analysis [says]…”…it's a very questionable project from an economic point of view…[W]e're wondering whether the community…believe they are getting some kind of fair compensation but it's not at all clear to those who know more about the project that that's true”...The community land in the Covalima District includes four [cemeteries] and three sacred sites along with the farmland providing livelihoods...[In East Timor]…there appears to have been a rush to finalise the agreement before adequate legislation covering the takeover of traditional land is finalised.