In the Indonesian online sphere, illustrators who are invested in railway history have begun reimagining train stations ...

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 ...

In 2024, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) quietly disbanded. This news drew far less public attention than when the terrorist organisation was in the international spotlight following the 2002 Bali bombings.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

We stood beneath a coconut palm, its fronds swaying above an alang-alang field. Dayu Mas looked toward the Petanu river and said, ‘This place listens.’ It was 1983. We had been speaking for weeks ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor and the ensuing violent 24-year occupation profoundly transformed the lives of Indonesians and East Timorese and linked them in complex ways. While the ...