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August 2, 2016

Jakarta Globe - August 2, 2016

Jakarta – The Ministry of Education and Culture's Head of Language Development Agency, Dadang Sunendar, has said that 139 ethnic languages in Indonesia are at risk of falling out of use.

November 20, 2015

Australian Associated Press - November 20, 2015

It would be an "irreversible national scandal" if Australia allowed Indonesian studies to cease in this country, the federal shadow treasurer warns.The language is on track for extincti

June 17, 2015

Tabloid JUBI - June 17, 2015

Bengkulu, Jubi – Two Papuan indigenous languages, Saponi and Mapia, are among 14 Indonesian tongues that have gone extinct.

February 2, 2015

Dili Weekly - February 2, 2015

Paulina Quintao – The Alola Foundation (FA) is urging the Timorese government to create regulation that will protect the originality of the Tais (traditional cloth) of Timor, including motifs used

November 24, 2014

Dili Weekly - November 24, 2014

Martinha Gusmao – The Education Ministry, through the National University of Timor Lorosa'e, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Portugal's University of Coimbra committing th

August 11, 2014

Jakarta Post - August 11, 2014

Jakarta – A group of artists from the Indonesian Arts Coalition has criticized a draft bill on culture that is currently being legislated by the House of Representatives.

February 10, 2014

Dili Weekly - February 10, 2014

Paulina Quintao – The Monitoring and Advocacy Officer for Programs at the Timor-Leste Coalition for Education (TLCE), Joao Soares R.

October 21, 2013

August 9, 2013

Free West Papua Campaign Media Release - August 9, 2013

The KNPB (West Papua National Committee) and PNWP (West Papua National Parliament) will march through the streets of West Papua on August 15th on a Papuan cultural parade in support of

January 4, 2012

Time Magazine - January 4, 2012

Brendan Brady, Dili – The sleeves of his button-down shirt rolled up, standing on an open-air stage before an audience of hundreds, the man read his poems with dramatic pauses, varied i

December 14, 2011

Jakarta Post - December 14, 2011

Jakarta – Only 10 percent of the nation's local languages will survive by the end of the century, according to a researcher.

July 21, 2011

Jakarta Globe - July 21, 2011

Banjir Ambarita – An Indonesian soldier was killed in an ambush at Puncak Jaya district in Papua on Thursday.

August 12, 2009

Jakarta Post - August 12, 2009

Jakarta – The Java and Lampung chapters of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) have issued a fatwa that debus, the Banten traditional martial art, is haram or forbidden under Islamic law

December 10, 2008

Reuters - December 10, 2008

Dili – The Secretary General of Fretilin and former Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri, said today in Dili that there are "attacks" against Portuguese as official language in T

November 10, 2008

Jakarta Post - November 10, 2008

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Indonesia's verbal traditions are endangered because of the country's negligence in preserving the heritage amid streams of contemporary culture, the Associati

November 15, 2007

Jakarta Post - November 15, 2007

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandar Lampung – Hundreds of the country's 746 local languages will disappear forever unless the central and local governments work together to preserve them, a sympos

October 29, 2007

Jakarta Post - October 29, 2007

Jakarta – The year was 1928 when young nationalists declared the Youth Pledge, which included a call for a national language, Bahasa Indonesia.

Jakarta Post - October 29, 2007

Jakarta – For many young people, more accustomed to slangy speech, having to revert to formal Bahasa Indonesia can be a daunting task, if not altogether impossible.

July 23, 2007

International Herald Tribune - July 23, 2007

Dili – The rumble of a generator and the whir of ceiling fans muffled the quiet words of a judge as he questioned a witness in a murder trial one recent hot, still afternoon.

July 11, 2007

Agence France Presse - July 11, 2007

Sebastien Blanc, Dili – With a new president and parliament, East Timor is poised for reconciliation after more than a year of simmering political tension.

June 6, 2007

Jakarta Post - June 6, 2007

Jakarta – Aware that the Indonesian language is spoken by most people in Timor Leste, the country's government has decided to make the Indonesian language, or Bahasa Indonesia, its work

June 5, 2007

Xinhua News - June 5, 2007

Jakarta – The Indonesian government was grateful and delighted with the use of Bahasa Indonesia as one of the official languages in neighboring Timor-Leste, President Susilo Bambang Yud

April 23, 2007

Reuters - April 23, 2007

Ahmad Pathoni, Dili – Portuguese is one of the two official languages in East Timor, but you can hardly hear it spoken in the streets of the young nation.

April 11, 2007

Jakarta Post - April 11, 2007

Abdul Khalik, Dili – Opening his math book, Manuel da Silva, 17, discovered he had something to clarify before he could finish the homework his teacher had given him.

November 10, 2006

Tempo Interactive - November 10, 2006

Mustafa Moses, Jakarta – A hundred out of 600 regional languages in various Indonesian dialects are threatened with extinction.

March 18, 2005

Lusa - March 18, 2005

Dili – "Lia Foun", East Timor's first fully bilingual newspaper, hit the streets Friday, with the weekly's director forecasting it will underline the importance of Portuguese to the cou

September 7, 2004

Lusa - September 7, 2004

Lisbon – East Timor's religious leader, Catholic Bishop Basilio do Nascimento, is optimistic over efforts, backed by Portugal, to re-introduce the use of Portuguese in his newly indepen

July 12, 2004

Radio Australia - 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 complicated history and politics.

July 9, 2004

Radio Australia - 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.

November 22, 2002

Lusa - November 22, 2002

Lisbon – Portugal will continue to support the reconstruction East Timor, "particularly in the areas of education and the promulgation of the Portuguese language", a senior Lisbon offic

August 16, 2002

Sydney Morning Herald - August 16, 2002

Dennis Schulz and Fernando de Freitas report – Opposite the clerk in the Government's Office of Foreign Affairs, Maria Gutierrez stares blankly at the official application, mouth agape.

June 27, 2002

Lusa - June 27, 2002

Several members of East Timor's parliament called Thursday for proposed legislation to be translated into Tetum, as Portuguese is not understood by all of the 88-member assembly.

May 29, 2002

Jakarta Post - May 29, 2002

Pandaya, Dili – There is a tragicomedy taking place in the East Timor's elementary schools.

May 24, 2002

International Herald Tribune - May 24, 2002

Michael Richardson, Uotolari – Paradoxically, the neat figure of the Reverend Damianus Wagur seated behind a school desk in his office epitomizes the complexity of East Timor's recent h

May 15, 2002

Associated Press - May 15, 2002

Chris Brummitt, Dili – Children in East Timor are having trouble getting their tongues around their new official language.

April 18, 2002

The Guardian - April 18, 2002

Michael Kessler – Next month East Timor will become the world's newest nation when the former Portuguese colony, which voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999, formally adopts its

December 11, 2001

Agence France Presse - December 11, 2001

Dili – East Timor's fledgling lawmaking body on Tuesday adopted the tongues of both their native ancestors and Portuguese colonisers as the official languages of the world's newest nati

September 5, 2001

Timor Post - September 5, 2001

The Deputy President of the Dili District Court Rui Pereira dos Santoas stressed that the Timor Lorosae Judiciary will continue using Bahasa Indonesia and Tetun in all proceedings for a

August 25, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - August 25, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's Cabinet member for foreign affairs, Mr Jose Ramos Horta, has blasted the United Nations mission in Dili for obstructing the implementation of Portuguese a

August 2, 2001

Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 2, 2001

East Timor's transitional government on Thursday moved forward with a controversial plan to adopt Portuguese as the country's official language by announcing it would recruit 723 Portug

June 20, 2001

Suara Timor Lorosae - June 20, 2001

The secretary-general of the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) Avelinho Coelho said Tuesday if the party gets majority seats in the 30 August election it will make Tetun the national langu

April 27, 2000

New York Times - April 27, 2000

Seth Mydans, Dili – There is not much question about the language of commerce here as East Timor begins to define itself as a nation.