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Fernando De Araújo (East Timorese Politician)
Fernando de Araújo, also known as (26 February 1963 – 2 June 2015) was an East Timorese activist and politician. He was a clandestine activist for the independence of East Timor, and then founded the Democratic Party after independence. He was President of the National Parliament of East Timor from 2007 to 2012. He also served as the Acting President for two months in early 2008. Background and early career Araújo was born in Manutaci, Ainaro District, in what was then Portuguese Timor. He was of Mambai ethnicity. At the age of 12, he witnessed all 18 members of his family massacred by the Indonesian Army. He studied literature at Udayana University in Bali, Indonesia. There he founded the National Resistance of East Timorese Students ( pt, Resistência Nacional dos Estudantes de Timor-Leste, links=no (RENETIL)). In Indonesian prison Following the Santa Cruz massacre in 1991, Araújo was arrested for "subversion against the state" after completing his first year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of East Timor
The president of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste ( pt, Presidente da República Democrática de Timor-Leste; tet, Prezidente Republika Demokratika Timor-Leste) is the head of state of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste. The executive powers of the president are limited however, the president is also the ''ex officio'' head of the Council of State, able to veto legislation and is the supreme commander of the Timor Leste Defence Force. Key ;''Political parties'' * * * ;''Other factions'' * ;''Symbols'' * † Assassinated Presidents of East Timor during War for Independence Presidents of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Latest election See also * East Timor ** Politics of East Timor ** List of colonial governors of Portuguese Timor ** Prime Minister of East Timor * First Lady of East Timor * Lists of office-holders Notes References {{Southeast Asian leaders 1975 establishments in East Timor 2002 establishments in East Timor Presidents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at . With over 275 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia is a presidential republic with an elected legislature. It has 38 provinces, of which nine have special status. The country's capital, Jakarta, is the world's second-most populous urban area. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the eastern part of Malaysia, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 East Timorese Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in East Timor on 7 July 2012.Election Profile IFES The United Nations stated that it would withdraw its 1,300 troops if the elections passed off peacefully. The National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, led by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, won the election with 30 seats, three seats short of a majority in National Parliament (East Timor), National Parliament. Background After the severe 2006 East Timorese crisis, unrest of 2006, the Australian-led International Stabilisation Force, International Stabilization Force (ISF) and the United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor, United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) had restored peace and order in the country. An 2008 East Timorese assassination attempts, assas ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 East Timorese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in East Timor on 17 March 2012, with a second round on 16 April 2012. Incumbent president José Ramos-Horta, who was eligible for a second and final term as president, announced that he would seek nomination to be a candidate in the election. The election was seen as a test for the "young democracy" in seeking to take control of its own security. Former military commander Taur Matan Ruak provisionally beat Francisco Guterres in a second round runoff. Background The presidency is seen as a unifying post for the country after the 1999 East Timorese crisis. This election is also seen as a test FRETILIN's ability to take back control in the parliamentary election later in the year. Incumbent president José Ramos-Horta had initially been reluctant to run for re-election, but a draft movement collected over 120,000 signatures in favour of his candidacy, prompting him to run. Candidates There were finally twelve candidates running for president; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniceto Guterres Lopes
Aniceto Guterres Lopes (born April 16, 1967 in Tapo, East Timor) is an East Timorese politician and human rights lawyer. Early life On December 7, 1975, Lopes and his family fled the country to Builalu, Indonesia to escape from the Indonesian troops that invaded East Timor. Upon their return to East Timor a year later, the Lopes family discovered their village of Tapo was destroyed, and moved to Maliana. Education In 1985, Lopes studied law at the Udayana University in Bali, after obtaining a scholarship from the governor of East Timor. Politics While studying in Indonesia, Lopes joined the National Resistance of East Timorese Students ( pt, Resistência Nacional dos Estudantes de Timor-Leste (RENETIL)) in 1989. Lopes was in charge of relaying political information to and from East Timor and other parts of the world. Career After moving back to East Timor in 1991, Lopes worked for a NGO in Dili. From 1992 to 1996, Lopes served as the secretary general of the East Timor Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 East Timorese Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in East Timor on 30 June 2007."National Provisional Results from the 30 June 2007 Parliamentary Elections" , Comissão Nacional de Eleições Timor-Leste, 9 July 2007. The new composition of East Timor's ''(Parlamento Nacional de Timor-Leste)'' was determined by the country's population. 529,198 voters were entitled to vote, 708 polling stations were ready. As a result, 65 MPs sat in the new parliament for the next five years. Although a narrow [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 East Timorese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in East Timor in 2007. The first round on 9 April 2007 saw six of the eight candidates eliminated. The remaining two candidates, incumbent Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta and FRETILIN President Francisco Guterres, faced each other in a runoff election on 9 May 2007. Ramos-Horta won the second round with 69% of the vote."Guterres congratulates Horta as new president of Timor-Leste" Xinhua (''People's Daily Online''), 11 May 2007. Candidates Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta announced in February 2007 that he would be a presidential candidate, receiving the support of incumbent president |
Fretilin
The Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor ( pt, Frente Revolucionária de Timor-Leste Independente, abbreviated as Fretilin) is a centre-left political party in East Timor. They presently hold 23 of 65 seats in the National Parliament. Fretilin formed the government in East Timor until their independence in 2002. They obtained the Presidency in 2017 under Francisco Guterres, but lost in the 2022 East Timorese presidential election. Fretilin began as a resistance movement that fought for the independence of East Timor, originally from Portugal in 1974 and later from Indonesia until 1998. After East Timor gained its independence in 2002, Fretilin became one of several parties competing for power in a multi-party system. History before independence Ascendancy and destruction Fretilin was founded on 20 May, 1974 as the Timorese Social Democratic Association (ASDT). The ASDT renamed itself to Fretilin on 11 September 1974 and took a more radical stance, proclaiming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations Transitional Administration In East Timor
The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), ( pt, Administração Transitória das Nações Unidas em Timor Leste), was a United Nations mission in East Timor that aimed to solve the decades long East Timorese crisis in the area occupied by Indonesian military. UNTAET provided an interim civil administration and a peacekeeping mission in the territory of East Timor, from its establishment on 25 October 1999, until its independence on 20 May 2002, following the outcome of the East Timor Special Autonomy Referendum. The transitional administration was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1272 in 1999. A rarity for United Nations peacekeeping missions, UNTAET involved the United Nations directly administering the territory of East Timor. The mission's responsibilities included providing a peacekeeping force to maintain security and order; facilitating and co-ordinating relief assistance to the East Timorese; facilitating emerge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 East Timorese Independence Referendum
An independence referendum was held in East Timor on 30 August 1999. The referendum's origins lay with the request made by the President of Indonesia, B. J. Habibie, to the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 27 January 1999, for the United Nations to hold a referendum, whereby the Indonesian province would be given choice of either greater autonomy within Indonesia or independence. Voters rejected the proposed special autonomy, leading to their separation from Indonesia. This led to mass violence and the destruction of infrastructure in East Timor, before the UN Security Council ratified the resolution on 15 September for the formation of a multinational force (INTERFET) to be immediately sent to East Timor to restore order and security and end the humanitarian crisis. East Timor would officially achieve recognised independence on 20 May 2002. By many Indonesians (including the government), the referendum is also called the East Timorese people's consultation ( id, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Council Of Maubere Resistance
The National Council of Maubere Resistance (Portuguese: Conselho Nacional da Resistência Maubere, or CNRM) was an umbrella organisation of East Timorese individuals and organisations dedicated to resisting the Indonesian occupation of 1975–1999. In March 1986, Fretilin and the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) announced the formation of a coalition. In a re-organisation of the resistance structure, resistance leader Xanana Gusmão declared the resistance force Falintil to be a non-partisan 'national' army. In 1988, he relinquished membership of Fretilin, believing the fight for a free East Timor transcended political loyalties. He established the National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRM) and was declared leader. José Ramos-Horta became external spokesperson. The term Maubere was coined by Ramos-Horta in the 1970s. Initially used by the Portuguese to describe illiterate members of the Mambai, one of the largest ethnic groups of East Timor, it was reinvented as a badge o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cipinang Penitentiary Institution
Cipinang Penitentiary Institution ( id, Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Cipinang) is a top-security prison in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is exactly located in Cipinang Muara, Jatinegara, East Jakarta. History The prison was built by the Dutch colonial administration, during the Indonesian National Revival. It held Indonesian nationalist leaders such as Mohammed Hatta. Following Indonesian independence, novelist Pramoedya A. Toer was arrested in 1961 and held without trial for nearly a year in Cipinang for criticizing the Sukarno administration's anti-Chinese policies. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch alleged that the Suharto administration used Cipinang and other prisons to silence opponents from the Sukarno administration and Irian Jaya. In their annual report for 2005, AI also spoke of routine torture and ill-treatment. The organization said of Cipinang and other prisons: According to a survey conducted by a local non-governmental organization, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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