Feb 23, 2019 Last Updated 4:13 AM, Feb 20, 2019

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Timor-Leste

Review: Nation building and national identity in Timor Leste

Rocking the boat

The group of eighteen with their interpreters at the Curtin Detention Centre, 1995 - Credit: Odete Pinto

Jose da Costa and 17 others fled Indonesia-occupied East Timor on a small fishing boat and sought asylum in Australia

Film review: Atambua 39˚ Celsius

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The edge of Merah-Putih

Prabowo and human rights

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Jakarta 1998 was bad, but Prabowo likely had more blood on his hands in East Timor

Review: Justice, victimhood and remembering the violence in East Timor

Review: Justice, victimhood and remembering the violence in East Timor

Lia Kent’s study of East Timor’s attempts at transitional justice is an important contribution

Review: Suharto’s guardians and reluctant reformers

Review: Suharto’s guardians and reluctant reformers

A new publication tells the story of the first graduates of the joint Indonesian Armed Forces Military Academy

Review: At the scene of the crime

Review: At the scene of the crime

Essays, reflections and poetry on East Timor, 1999-2010

The politics of remembering and forgetting

The politics of remembering and forgetting

The people of East Timor are negotiating different conceptions of reconciliation in their daily lives

Getting an education

Getting an education

Links to Indonesian schools and universities remain strong in East Timor

Trapped in the legacy of the past

Trapped in the legacy of the past

Conflict between Timorese youth gangs and martial arts groups hark back to the Indonesian occupation

Letting go of Indonesian

Letting go of Indonesian

The choice of Tetum and Portuguese as national languages presents challenges to the new nation

A hybrid popular culture

A hybrid popular culture

Indonesian pop music and television still have a significant influence in East Timor

Graphic resistance

Graphic resistance

Photo-essay: Dissent and struggle are persistent themes of images adorning walls across East Timor

Children of the enemy

Children of the enemy

A child abducted during the Indonesian occupation returns to her former home

A problematic division

A problematic division

Managing the border between West and East Timor has been an ongoing challenge

East Timor ten years after the referendum

East Timor ten years after the referendum

A decade on, East Timor is still linked to Indonesia

Eight years after 1999

Eight years after 1999

Displaced East Timorese children go hungry in Indonesian West Timor

We refuse to become victims

We refuse to become victims

Indonesian, Australian and Timor Leste artists collaborate

Antithesis of justice

While top officials hail the Australia-Indonesia security agreement, ARTHUR KING is appalled to find that, on the ground in East Timor, youths who resist still face torture.

Change in Indonesia, chance for East Timor

Transition to a post-Suharto era in Jakarta could be window of opportunity for East Timor. What might that window offer, asks COKI NAIPOSPOS?

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A kinder, more gentle FPI?

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Reclaiming Indonesian citizenship

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A ‘waria’ version of the traditional flag ceremony celebrates both nationhood and diversity

Photo essay: A protest for fair land reform

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