SUA Bali does not isolate—it listens. It does not display—it shelters. In doing so, it offers a modest answer to the forces ...

Puisi ini berfokus pada sepatu boot tua yang bisa diinterpretasikan sebagai figur pejuang lama yang memiliki peran monumental dalam perjuangan Timor-Leste. Ini adalah sebuah alegori politik yang ...

CNC Museum, Dili /Vannessa Hearman What I question, however, is whether Indonesia and Indonesians will engage in ...

Knowledge in Indonesia about the history of Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor is uneven. As Rita Padawangi writes, many young Indonesians are unaware about their country’s involvement in East Timor ...

During the struggle against the Suharto regime, the Indonesian pro-democracy movement and the Timor-Leste independence movement developed a strategy that activists likened to ‘one boat with separate ...

mengingatkan pengunjung tentang arus sejarah yang tetap mempengaruhi Timor-Leste hingga saat ini. Berkendara kurang lebih sejam ke arah selatan Dili, dengan mendaki jalanan berliku, kita kemudian akan ...

What might Indonesia have achieved if it had not occupied East Timor? As an Indonesian who always sympathised with Timor-Leste’s independence struggle, I once thought its freedom was an impossible ...

Statue of Nicolau Lobato, Dili, inaugurated in May 2014 /Lia Kent. The search for the missing continues Over the past few years, as part of a research project, I have listened to many East Timorese ...

On a late morning in 2022, I balanced on the back of a friend’s motorbike as we wound our way through the dusty streets of Atambua Selatan, West Timor, toward the weekly market. By the time we parked, ...

In 1979, Jose da Costa was three years old when he was captured by the Indonesian army together with his family up in the mountains where - like hundreds of thousands of other Timorese - they were ...

The lia-na’in (elders) from all over Timor-Leste at the 2025 Festival Fronteira in Suai, Covalima, explaining the concepts and practices of customary law, related to conflict resolution and ...