Paulina Quintao – The Advocacy Manager of the Women's Communication Forum Timor-Leste (FOKUPERS) Honorio Lopes said the language used in the song was an insult to women.

According to him, the song could cause conflict in society because of the bad language used. "We like the intonation but the words are not good as they degrade Timorese women," said Lopes in Farol, Dili.

Meanwhile, Member of Parliament Maria Angleica Rangel said this happened because there were no laws to stop it. The MP said there were a lot of songs spreading in the community that use bad language and insult women, like the song Martina.

According to her, Timor-Leste as a new country is in a phase of education and people have the right to express their feels through a variety of ways, but they should be critical of the words used.

"We still don't have a law to regulate these things, I think generally music has not discriminated against women but going forward we need to fix this," MP Rangel said in National Parliament.

Based on TDW's observations, at the fourth National Women's Congress those in the women's movement were upset and demanded the government create a law to regulate the work of singers, as many Timorese songs degrade women.

They were also concerned about the pictures drivers put on mikrolets and taxis and how this would affect young children.

These demands were handed over in an action platform for the government about gender equality in the country. Meanwhile MP Rangel said parliament would prioritize laws that benefit the people, like the land law, but that did not close the path to creating a law about this in the future. "We will look into things like this one day," she said.