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

It was mid-October, 1998, in Malang, East Java. I was sitting in a friend's house watching television coverage of Indonesian students demonstrating in the streets of Jakarta. They were protesting ...

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 ...

In 2009, my brother came across a reference to our grandfather (whom, in the Dutch tradition, we called opa) on the Verzetsmuseum website in a story about Dutch resistance member, Bep Stenger, the one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, formerly a Portuguese colony, on 7 December 1975. The invasion marked the beginning of a 24-year annexation of East ...

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, ...