Dan Eaton, Jakarta – East Timor urged its friends on Monday not to push for a U.N tribunal for Indonesian forces accused of abuses during its…
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August 9, 2004
David Gollust, State Department – The United States Monday expressed dismay over an Indonesian appeals court ruling overturning convictions of…
August 7, 2004
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – "I saw seven police firing their pistols at L-7, a volley of bullets directed at his legs. It would be surprising if he hadn…
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Three Indonesian soldiers and a police officer have won their appeals against convictions for gross human rights abuses…
Andrew Burrell, Jakarta – The only four Indonesians found guilty of the wave of killings and destruction in East Timor in 1999 have all had their…
New York – US-based rights groups called for a UN inquiry to bring to justice Indonesian security officers let off the hook for atrocities during…
Jakarta – Foreign rights groups Saturday demanded the establishment of an international tribunal to punish Indonesian security officers implicated…
John Aglionby, Jakarta – A UN prosecutor and human rights groups called for international action yesterday after an Indonesian appeal court…
August 6, 2004
Melbourne – East Timor's first lady today accused the federal government of making the Timor Sea oil negotiations a political football.
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East Timor's first lady, Kirsty Sword Gusmao has called on the Alkatiri government to listen to the needs and demands of rebel Cornelio Gama or L-…
Evelyn Rusli, Jakarta – An Indonesian appeals court has overturned the convictions of three army officers and one policeman for crimes against…
August 5, 2004
Oil wealth was always expected to play an important role in rebuilding East Timor after independence. Two years on, thanks to the stubbornness of…
August 4, 2004
Jon Lamb – Australian Labor Party federal leader Mark Latham's comments on July 22 that a government led by him would start new negotiations with…
August 2, 2004
Sydney – The Australian-born first lady of East Timor, Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, Monday appealed to Canberra not to force her country beg for a "fair…
August 1, 2004
Brad Howarth – The East Timorese and Australian Governments have agreed to proceed with negotiations over the Timor Sea oil and gas fields without…
July 31, 2004
Nigel Wilson – The Howard Government has told East Timor it will get no revenue from the Bayu Undan and Greater Sunrise gas fields if it pursues…
Rowan Callick – The Timor gap is getting wider. And both Australia and East Timor are set to delay or lose substantial income as a result.
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July 30, 2004
Darwin – Federal and state mining ministers have shot down a proposal to include East Timor in their talks on the exploitation of oil and gas…
July 29, 2004
Sarah Boyd – The United Nation's special representative in East Timor, Sukehiro Hasekawa, has been thinking about the O J Simpson trial. "The…
July 28, 2004
Dennis Shanahan and Nigel Wilson – Mark Latham's pledge to start new boundary talks with East Timor is threatening the tiny country's economic…
July 27, 2004
Melbourne – Australia has warned that it may suspend the next round of negotiations with East Timor on a maritime border in the…
IN their testy negotiations over oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, the Australian and East Timorese sides have been driven solely by their…
July 26, 2004
Canberra – The government threatened Sunday to suspend the second round of talks with East Timor over a maritime boundary between the two…
July 25, 2004
Sydney – Australia's foreign minister has threatened to suspend talks with East Timor on disputed multi-billion-dollar Timor Sea gas and oil…
The Federal Opposition says it is the Government that is playing politics over Australia's negotiations with East Timor over the boundaries in the…
July 24, 2004
Steve Lewis and Nigel Wilson – The Howard Government is threatening to suspend talks with East Timor over control of billions of dollars worth of…
July 23, 2004
Canberra – East Timor's economic future would be given more weight in talks over oil and gas royalties if Labor was elected, Opposition Leader…
Michelle Grattan, Canberra – The Flood report has rejected an allegation that a pro-Jakarta lobby within the Defence Intelligence Organisation…
A riot in the East Timorese capital Dili this week has turned the spotlight on simmering political tensions in the country. Cornelio Gama, a…
Mark Dodd, Darwin – Anti-government demonstrations this week in East Timor's capital involving former guerrilla fighters indicate a growing…
July 21, 2004
Reporter: Tanya Nolan
Tony Eastely: East Timor says that if it can't resolve its differences with Australia over maritime rights it wants…
Reporter: Nance Haxton
Mark Colvin: The Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has strongly rebuffed criticisms and complaints from East Timor…
The Australian Democrats have backed a call for New Zealand to mediate in negotiations between East Timor and Australia over the Timor Sea…
Australia – By the medium of our Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, is presenting a very unattractive face to the world, not least our Pacific…
Jakarta – Responding to a letter sent by East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao, the East Timorese parliament and East Timorese…
July 20, 2004
Dili – East Timorese police fired off rubber Bullets and tear gas Tuesday to disperse hundreds of protesters who had occupied the tiny nation's…
There's confusion tonight in Dili as to the whereabouts of East Timor's dissident Falantil guerilla fighter Cornelio Gama, otherwise known as L7…
Dili – Police in East Timor fired tear gas on Tuesday to disperse dozens of former freedom fighters demonstrating outside the main government…
July 19, 2004
The first person to be convicted of human rights abuses in the lead up to East Timor's independence referendum has begun his three year jail…
Shawn Donnan, Jakarta – BP has completed the relocation of villagers at the future site of its Tangguh liquid natural gas project in the remote…
Tiarma Siboro and Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The imprisonment of former East Timor governor Abilio Soares is maintaining the immunity of military top…
Dili – East Timor's president said Monday that Indonesian security forces were responsible for the violence that swept his country in 1999 _ not…
July 18, 2004
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Former East Timor governor Abilio Soares began serving on Saturday a three-year prison term for his role in the…
July 17, 2004
Yemris Fointuna and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta/Kupang – Convicted former East Timor governor Abilio Soares defied a summons on Friday to begin…
July 16, 2004
John Filiatreau, Liquica – Leonito da Costa's death and resurrection took place shortly after August 30, 1999, the day he and hundreds of…
John Filiatreau, Dili – Five years ago, this country reclaimed its independence from Indonesia, becoming the newest, and arguably poorest, nation…
July 14, 2004
Alex Chadwick, host: This is Day to Day. I'm Alex Chadwick.
The world's newest nation, East Timor, celebrated its second birthday in May…
July 12, 2004
Two years after independence, the people of East Timor are trying to sort out the muddle of languages that is a legacy of the country's…
A controversial immigration decision taken by the East Timorese government is to be challenged in East Timor's Court of Appeal.
An…
July 9, 2004
The various languages of East Timor speak of the history of the place, but in the present they are the topic of fierce debate.
The country's…




