Many of the sites listed here publish useful and important information. However, it is not possible for to monitor these sites and we do not necessarily endorse their contents or politics. Note only sites with substantial English content have been listed. Updated June 2005.
Key Sites
Justice System Monitoring Program
La'o Hamutuk Justice and Human Rights index
East Timor Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation
Amnesty International on Indonesia and East Timor ; AI's Annual Report 2005: ET , Indonesia ; 2004: ET , Indonesia ; 2003: ET , Indonesia ; 2002: ET , Indonesia ; 2001: ET , Indonesia ; 2000: Indonesia and East Timor ; 1999: Indonesia ; 1998: Indonesia ; 1997: Indonesia
AI USA's Indonesia and E. Timor site
UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center
Coalition for International Justice
Committee to Protect Journalists Online
Crimes of War Project
East Timor Evidence Collection Training Program - defunct site via www.archive.org
Genocide Prevention Center
Human Rights Watch - East Timor page; Indonesia and East Timor chapter of World Report 2003: ET , Indonesia ; 2002: ET , Indonesia , 2001: ET , Indonesia , Indonesia/ET chapter: 2000 , 1999
ICG: Indonesia: Impunity Versus Accountability For Gross Human Rights Violations (Feb 2001); The Implications of the Timor Trials (May 2002)
International Center for Transitional Justice Lawyers without Borders/Avocats Sans Frontières Masters of Terror : The most complete set of profiles available so far of the key suspects in the 1999 destruction of East Timor East Timor Law Journal Serious Crimes Unit Yale University, Genocide Monitoring Program
Is there Justification for an International Criminal Tribunal for East Timor? (Sept 2000)
N's International Commission of Inquiry on East Timor Human Rights Commission report on vote- related violence (Jan 2000) Executive Summary of KPP-HAM (Indonesian gov't) report on vote violence (Jan 2000) State Dept. Indonesia Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2002 , 2001 , 2000 , 1999 , 1998 , 1997 , 1996 , 1995 , 1994 , 1993 (ETAN's response to 1999 , 1998 report). There is a separate chapter on East Timor starting with the 2000 report ; 2001 , 2002
State Dept. International Religious Freedom Report 2002 , 2001
Reference site for human rights documents and links from the U of Minnesota
For the Record: The UN Human Rights System 2000 (East Timor)
International Human Rights Agreements
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 260 languages with links to other key international rights documents, including Tetum ; Bahasa Indonesia ; Portuguese
Humanitarian Relief, Reconstruction and Development (agencies)
Lao Hamutuk International Financial Institutions index
Asian Development Bank
IMF
UN High Commissioner for Refugees - Timor search
UNDP ; also Search United Nations Development Program site for more on East Timor
UNICEF - East Timor ; also USA Fund for UNICEF
UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) - East Timor
UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA)
UNIFEM and East Timor
World Bank and East Timor
World Health Organization - Timor-Leste , Current Emergencies - East Timor
World Food Program - Timor
Other Agencies Active in East and/or West Timor
Directory of International NGOs in East Timor Ai-Kameli Trust (UK) ALRI -
Australian Legal Resources International Asia Foundation Asia-Pacific
Development Information Programme (APDIP) - building internet connections
Artist without Borders (Japan)
Asia Pacific Support Collective (supporting grassroots initiatives in E Timor
Australian Council for International Development (ACFID was ACFOA) - Links to agencies in East Timor
Australian Centre for Int'l Agricultural Research
CAFOD (UK)
Carmelite Mission Support Groups
CARE: Info Center : Special Reports: East Timor
Caritas Australia ; Caritas Dili
Christian Children's Fund
Catholic Relief Services
Concern Worldwide USA
Dusseldorp Skills Forum
East Timor Education Fund (Australia)
Emmanuel Covenant Community
Family Health International (FHI)
Hawaii Forestry Extension
Health Alliance International
Interaction International Catholic Migration Commission
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
International Republican Institute
International Rescue Committee
Internews Timor-Leste Jesuit Relief Service Timor Update
Mary MacKillop Institute of East Timorese Studies
Mercy Corps International
MSF (Doctors Without Borders) in East Timor (also do search)
Maritime Union of Australia Supports Trade Unions in East Timor
National Democratic Institute
Oxfam GB
PALMS Australia
PeaceJam Educational Relief for ET
PLAN
Project Timor (Australia)
Ryder-Cheshire Foundation
East Timor Sunrise (Australia)
St. Bakhita Centre/Leeuwin Care
Trocaire (Ireland)
Taibesi Centre
Global Connections: East Timor (General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church)
Uniting Church Overseas Aid: Food Security Program ; Also Uniting International Mission East Timor page
UNTL Library Project
USC Canada East Timor page
United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) in East Timor
WorldVision IndoKit
Refugees
Lao Hamutuk refugees index
U.S. Committee for Refugees: World Refugee Survey 2004 ; 2003 : 2002 , 2001 ; see also Indonesia page
The Refugee Crisis and Accountability : Observations and Analysis of a Fact-Finding Mission to the East Timorese Refugee Camps in West Timor, by Karen Orenstein, East Timor Action Network
IDPs in Indonesia & East Timor (Norwegian Refugee Council)
UNHCR
Briefing Paper on East Timorese Refugees in West Timor (ETISC)
Evaluation of UNHCR’s repatriation and reintegration programme in East Timor, 1999-2003
Forced Expulsions to West Timor and the Refugee Crisis (Human Rights Watch)
Independence Deferred (fr. Refugees Magazine)
International Organization for Migration
Joint appeal: Solutions for East Timorese refugees Jan - Dec 2002
Peace Brigades International (PBI) Indonesia/East Timor Project
ReliefWeb on West Timor
PreventConflict.org West Timor
East Timor: The refugee crisis continues (Amnesty International)
East Timorese Groups
Directory of East Timorese NGOs
National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT), History
East Timor Home Page - ETRA
East Timor NGO Forum
FRETILIN Melbourne (archive)
Timor Institute of Development Studies (TIDS)
To Resist Is to Win (Xanana) archived website
UDT Timor - Timorese Democratic Union
Support Groups
Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (Australia)
Agir Pour Timor - covers some press in French, English and Portuguese
Anna Wearne Trust
APHEDA (Australian trade union aid abroad) E. Timor page
Asia-Pacific Coalition for East Timor (APCET)
Asia Pacific Center for Justice and Peace (archive)
Backdoor - Canberra, Australia-based action- oriented electronic newsletter
British Coalition for East Timor (archive)
CAFIET - Canadian Action for Indonesia and East Timor Catholic Institute for International Relations
CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development)
ETAN's Arizona chapter
ETAN's San Francisco chapter
ETAN's Seattle chapter
East Timor Alert Network Canada
East Timor Ireland Solidarity Campaign
East Timor Scotland Support Group
Free East Timor Coalition (New Zealand)
Free Timor Coalition Campaign (Australia)
The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
International Platform of Jurists for East Timor
Labor union support
Letters from East Timor (David Owen)
Madison, Wisconsin Support Groups : ETAN, Madison-Ainaro Sister-City Alliance (MASA) and Medical Aid for East Timor
Melbourne East Timor Campaign
National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference
Pacific Concerns Resource Centre
Peace Movement Aotearoa/New Zealand
"Remember the Dili Massacre", State Dept., Washington DC 11.12.98
SOS Timor (Belgium)
Solidamor - Indonesian East Timor Solidarity Group (English and Bahasa)
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) Malaysian human rights Groups
Tapol (Indonesia Human Rights) Home Page
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Indonesia and East Timor: The Ecumenical Response (World Council of Churches)
Businesses in East Timor
Building the East Timor Administration
Government Sites
AusAID - East Timor Crisis (Australia); East Timor Community Assistance
Australian Defence Support to TImor-Leste
Parliamentary Library (Australia)
Indonesian Mission to the UN- East Timor press releases
Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs - What's New ; East Timor section
East Timor News via Indonesian Embassy to Canada
Australian Peacekeepers in East Timor , see also InterFET ; Australian War Memorial sites
Northern Territory (Australia) and the Reconstruction of East Timor
European Union & East Timor
Ireland: Development Cooperation, Dept of Foreign Affairs
Japan: East Timor Situation
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Country Paper
Portugal's Mission to the United Nations - Timor Docs
Portugal's Embassy in East Timor (Portuguese only)
Foreign Office Country Background ; (British Government); DFID: Country Information
U.S. Dept of Justice International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP)
U.S. Agency for Int'l Development in E Timor. AID's Overview
U.S. Peace Corps
U.S. Dept. of State - IIP: U.S. Support for East Timor
Mauritius Government information website
Oman Sultanate information website
Namibia Government information website
Bulgaria Government information website
Kazakhstan Government information website
Romania Government information website
South Korea Government information website
Bahrain Government information website
Turkmenistan Map information website
News Sites
Fact Sheets
Additional Background
Culture and History
Development, Health, Reconstruction, Humanitarian & Related Issues
Curriculum
Language
Maps, Illustrations and Photos (please note many other sites listed here contain photos & maps)
Media Matters
Balibo Five : Sydney Morning Herald investigation of 1975 journalist deaths (Oct. 1998), also Balibo & Beyond: Report of a colloquium concerning the deaths of six Australian based journalists in East Timor (Australian Section International Commission of Jurists, 18 October, 1997). See Ashes to ashes, dust to dust on Shirley Shackleton on her quest for justice (SMH, 4/26/00). Transcript of Dateline (SBS) Australia documentary, Balibo- The Final Truth , on Shirley Shackleton and the Balibo deaths.
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)1999 Annual Report chapter on East Timor . Also article and protest letter on militia attacks and threats on journalists in E Timor
Pacific Media Watch includes regular news updates on media in E. Timor and Indonesia
Documentary Filmmaking in East Timor 1) Carmela Baranowska describes making Scenes from an Occupation East Timor 1999 with film clips; 2) Filming Behind Enemy Lines by Dom Rotheroe describes two weeks spent filming E Timorese guerrillas in 1997.
East Timor Press - Official site of East Timorese print media
East Timor : Report on violations of press freedom (Reporters sans frontières) Annual Report: 2003 , 2002
FAIR Resources on East Timor Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's analysis of media coverage
Hiding War in Plain Sight : Indonesia's coverage of Timor violence concealed the army's role, Toward Freedom, Dec 1999
Media Channel: East Timor
Print Media Training Program in Dili , a report (Jan 2000)
RTTL: Radio-Televisão Timor Leste
Sander Thoenes web site devoted to the work and death of the journalist killed in Oct 1999 in E Timor) with his Timor coverage and details about his death
UNESCO - Focus on East Timor (re-building East Timor's media)
UN Organized Vote and Aftermath (1999- Note a number of the sites above also focus on this period)
Independence Coverage (May 2002)
Women
And More Background
These sites are inactive but have useful archives: Back Door ;
East Timor Observatory (CDPM); East Timor Relief Association (ETRA)
Allan Nairn interviews: Media Channel (Covering East Timor, also video ); New Politics: East Timor and the United States: An Interview with Allan Nairn
Asia Nobel Laureates - interview with Jose Ramos-Horta (video & text); Speak Truth to Power biography
Australian Society for Inter-Country Aid - Timor (ASIAT)
Australian Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee: Final report on the inquiry into East Timor; (December 7, 2000); Australian Senate's Interim Report on East Timor (Sept 1999)
Bitter Paradise: the Sellout of East Timor - web broadcast of Canadian documentary
CBC News - E. Timor Indepth
Crisis in East Timor , Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
East Timor: Prospects for Resolution (June 1995) from WriteNet
East Timor Scholarship Program (East-West Center)
East Timor: A Short History of Cynicism and Hope
East Timor Spotlight - special feature from about.com Human Rights section ;
End to Global Injustice: East Timor
ETAN Canada Fact Sheets
Faith May be All They Have Left - Presbyterian Church (USA)
Foreign Policy in Focus: East Timor by Lynn Fredriksson (December 2000)
From the Place of the Dead , website for biography of Bishop Belo
East Timor - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
In Focus: Indonesia After Suharto from Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies
KaotiK - East Timor Protest - Computer Security - Hacking and Hackers - AntiOnline
National Democratic Institute's Timor Loro Sa'e Is Our Nation: A Report of Focus Group Discussions in East Timor (March 2001), A Secure Future - Attitudes to Defense & Security (February 2003); Government Within Reach: views of East Timorese on local government (Jan. 2003) PDF format
The 12th November Massacre - A Personal Testimony (by an E. Timorese survivor)
Outside Indonesia - East Timor July-Sept 2003 issue of Inside Indonesia)
Punitive Damage: Dawn Hutchesson interviews Annie Goldson maker of the documentary on the 1991 Santa Cruz massacre
Quito - a multi-media "documentary music drama" (CD is available from ETAN)
Revista Camoes: Number 14 · July-September, 2001 On the Identity of Timor Lorosa’e (Abstracts in English)
Suai CivPol
Revolutionary and Popular Movements in Indonesia/East Timor
Timor Today - Timor Aid's Daily News Summary
The Timor Conspiracy, (July 2000) in conjunction with John Pilger's documentary, with video clips, links to articles
Track II Diplomacy by Michael Salla
Noam Chomsky, Constancio Pinto, Allan Nairn and others. Transcript of ETAN's Dec. 96 public meeting on E Timor in NYC.
UN's Decolonization site
The Unofficial East Timor Page (includes poems and more)
Workers' Online special Timor issue (April 2000)
Why Americans Should Care About East Timor , Noam Chomsky (Fall 1999)
Discussion and News Lists
Indonesian Struggles
Arms Trade and Military Training
Dili
AM RADIO
864
RTL-Radio Timor Leste|on FM - Dili (Dili) public
FM RADIO
91.5 4kW
RTL-Radio Timor Leste - Dili (Dili) public
99.5
Radio Rakambia - Dili (Dili) community
100.5
Radio Lorico Lian - Dili (Dili)
103.1
Antena 1 (RDP)|r.[R-Port] - Dili (Dili)
105.3
RDP Internacional |r.[R-Lisboa] - Dili (Dili) LISTEN ONLINE
106.5
Radio Australia |r.[R-Aust] - Dili (Dili) news/info, 24h English
East Timor
FM RADIO
91.7
Radio Communidade Maliana - Maliana (Bobonaro) community
92.3
Radio Communidade Tokodede - Liquica (Liquiça) community
93.3
Radio Atoni Lifau - Oecusse community
94.1
RDP Internacional |r.[R-Lisboa] - Baucau (Baucau) LISTEN ONLINE
95.1
Radio Communidade Lian 1912 - Same (Manufahi) community
96.1
Radio Communidade Ili Uai - Manatuto (Manatuto) LISTEN ONLINE
97.1
Radio Rai Husar - Aileu (Aileu) community LISTEN ONLINE
97.9
Radio Povu - Viqueque (Viqueque) community
98.1
Radio Lian Tatamailau - Ainaro (Ainaro) community
99.9
Radio Communidade Lian Metebian - Baucau (Baucau) community
100.1
RCL-Radio Communidade Los Palos - Los Palos (Lautem) community