East Timor

This paper aims to lay down the background of the East Timor conflict and explain how the lingering historical sources when added to the recent issues led to an environment where the national capacity and institutions of the country were demolished. While the history of the conflict is vast but here the conflict has been divided into two phases, i.e., 1999-2002 and 2006-2008. Furthermore, the peace-building efforts and security initiatives carried out by multiple Actors shall be critically examined

Post independence and UN assistance, East Timor remains drastically behind other nations developmentally. Infrastructure concerns are a major domestic and government services are in some locations are non existent. Strengthening its local economy has been key and is an area of East Timorese success. East Timor boasted a GDP growth rate of 11.7% in 2014 when at independence the nation experienced little economic activity. In 2000, the government took in a revenue of 1.6 million total, mostly as duties

to lose is for any reason East Timor would fall into communist hands. In fact, according to Simpson (2005), Australia was worried that with the devastating end of the Vietnam, war that gave a sense of power to communism, East Timor falling into communism could jeopardize its northern perimeter. In this regard, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), issued the following statements that were aimed at stimulating Indonesia into invading East Timor; East Timor is not a viable economic entity;

Term 4 Economics Essay –Jack Stickley East Timor is a country surrounded by a picturesque and untouched landscape that has inhabited people for centuries. In today’s society however, East Timor has been economically left behind in comparison to other western world super powers. As the country attempts to rebuild its national identity following their separation from the Indonesia regime, certain obstacles threaten to stop their progress to become a developed nation. Least Developed Countries (LDC’s)

The Future of East Timor East Timor is one of the world’s beautiful and vast tropical wildernesses. A lot of the country’s economic activity lies on the premises of the country’s landscape. The economic outlook of the country is centered on its history and potential for development. There are several emerging industries and future sources of income present in East Timor that are based on the country’s environmental strengths. Tourism is somewhat popular in East Timor. Travel sites and companies

2006: 111). East Timor had reinforced the Indonesian perception that Australia had an arrogant neo-colonial foreign policy (Day 2015: 675). Yet, the burgeoning democracy following the fall of Suharto in 1999 gave the opportunity for better dialogue (Robert and Hadir 2015: 197). The 2001 Tampa affair became a stumbling block, as Howard publically criticized

between the Banda and Timor Sea, lies a small nation called Timor-Leste a.k.a. East Timor, which is part of an island known as Timor. In 1520, the Portuguese were first settling into Timor; a little before the year 1860, Portugal and Netherlands fought for the land of Timor but with an 1860 treaty, it divided Timor into West and East Timor. East Timor was given to the Portuguese while West Timor belonged to the Netherlands. After 455 years of Portugal colonizing East Timor, Portugal suddenly withdrew

World Bank reconstruction role in Timor-Leste creating problems (REFERENCE: http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/es/2007/01/art-550872/) The World Bank came to Timor-Leste in 1999, when the UN was still planning the intervention mission. The lack of attention given by the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor to economic development allowed the Bank to assume a central role. After the end of mass violence, the Bank and Fund visited Timor-Leste and conducted a joint assessment mission. This

Australia- Trade and Immigration Background As Joycelyn has mentioned Australia's having greater and greater interaction with its Asian neighbours, through the areas of trade and its active role in the regional trade organization - APEC. Despite its location, Australia can hardly be thought of being an Asian country. Not so long ago, Asian were looked down upon, with a mixture of fear because of the communist aggression, pity because of their poverty, and contempt, as they dumped cheap and poorly

Initially groups such as Sarekat Islam were founded to fulfill community needs, but shortly morphed into a way for the “natives” of the Dutch East Indies to unite and organize. Later, students at STOVIA (School for the Training of Indonesian Doctors) began to form political and philosophical organizations such as Boedi Oetomo, which advocated for independence of the East Indies. Leo Suryadinata, as well as countless other Indonesian scholars, asserted that these were essential for the formation of Nationalism