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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students and youths have been instrumental in driving grassroots solidarity and activism Forms of solidarity have persisted between Indonesians and East Timorese after the restoration of Timor-Leste’s ...

The treatment of a keris in a Batik clothing store in Indonesia /author In following the journey of Diponegoro’s keris from a Dutch museum to Indonesia, I encountered the social life of keris as an ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The inside story of Indonesia’s quarter-century involvement in East Timor largely remains unexplored territory Timor-Leste is heavily dependent on Indonesia’s goodwill. Indonesia is the world’s fourth ...

On 7 August 2019, I chaired a community-based reconciliation meeting in Maulau village, Maubisse, Ainaro municipality, organised jointly by the organisation I lead, the Centro Nacional Chega! I.P.

A new documentary unlocks troubled histories and builds solidarity between youths of Indonesian and Timor-Leste Ingatan dari Timor (Memories of Timor) is a 70-minute documentary that started as a ...