Glossary of East Timorese and Indonesian Terms
and Important Names
Terms
and Abbreviations
ABRI (Anbkatan Bersenjata Republik Indonesi) - Indonesian Army and National Police Force.
Armed forces of Indonesia, replace by seperated Armed Forces (TNI) and
Police (Polri)
ADB - Asian Development Bank
ADF - Australian Defence Force
AFP - Australian Federal Police
APEC - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
APODETI (Associaçäo Popular Democrática Timorense) - The Timorese Popular Democratic Association.
Pro-Indonesia group established in 1974.
ASDT (Associaçäo Social Democrática Timorense)- Association of Timorese Social Democrats. Formed in 1974, this pro-independence party later became known as FRETILIN
ASEAN - Association of South East Asian
Nations
AusAID - Australian Agency for International Development
Brimob - (Brigade
Mobil Polri) Indonesian National Police
paramilitary force.
CAAC - Commission of Ex-Combatant
Affairs/ Comissão para os Assuntos dos Antigos
Combatentes
CAQR - Commission of Former Members of
the Resistance/Comissão para os Assuntos
dos Quadros da Resistencia
CAVF - Commission of Falintil
Veterans Affairs/Commissão para os Assuntos dos
Veteranos das Falintil
CAVR - (Comissao de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliacao de Timor
Leste) Commission for Reception, Truth and
Reconciliation in East Timor
CFET - Consolidated Fund for East Timor
CivPol - United Nations Civilian Police
CMATS -
The Treaty on
Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea between
Australia and Timor-Leste
CNE - Comissão Nacional de
Eleições/ National Election Commission (Timor-Leste)
CNRM (Conselho Nacional de Resistência Maubere) - National Council
of Maubere Resistance. Formed 1987, became CNRT in 1998
CNRT (Conselho
Nacional de Resistência Timorense) -
National Council of Timorese Resistance coalition formed in 1996, uniting UDT,
Fretlin and others on Independence platform. Replaced CNRM in 1998..
Dissolved July 2001.
CSO - civil society organization
Detachment 88 - Police counter-terrorism
organization, trained by U.S.
DFAT - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia
EAD - UN Electoral Assistance Division
ETPA - East Timor Public Administration
ETTA - East Timor Transitional Administration
Falintil (Forças Armadas de Libertaçäo) - Armed Forces for the
National Liberation of East Timor; pro-independence guerilla force.
Originally under Fretilin, later the CNRM & CNRT.
FPTL - East Timor Police Service
FDTL (Forças Defensas Timor Lorosae) - East Timor Defense Force. Commander:
Brigadier Taur Matan Ruak.
FPDK (Forum Persatuan, Demokrasi dan Keadilan) - Forum for
Unity, Democracy and Justice. Pro-integration front in East Timor
Fretilin (Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independent) -
Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor
IDPs - internally displaced persons
IEC -Independent Electoral Commission
InterFET - International Force in East Timor;
United Nations-sponsored, Australian-led force. September 1999 - February 2000.
IMET - International Military Education and Training. U.S.
Pentagon program that brings foreign officers to the U.S.
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IOM - International Organisation for Migration
ISF - International Stabilisation Force
JPDA - Joint Petroleum Development Area
Kopassus
(Komando Pasukan Khusus) - 'Red Berets", notorious
elite Indonesian
Special Forces Command
LDC - Least developed country
Maubere - From an indigenous Timorese language, the word was used in a derogatory manner to refer to the people of East Timor.
The resistance adopted the word into the proud language of the resistance to mean the people of the resistance.
MDG - Millennium Development Goal
NGO - non-governmental organization
NTT (Nusa Tenggara Timur) - Indonesian province
which includes West Timor
OCHA - UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs
OPMT - (Organizacao
Popular de Mulher Timor) Popular Organisation of
East Timorese Women
Pancasila - Indonesia 5 point state ideology
PKF - United Nations Peace Keeping Force
PNTL - National Police Service of
Timor-Leste
POLRI - Indonesian Police
RAAF - Royal
Australian Air Force
RAN - Royal Australian Navy
RDTL - Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
(official name of East Timor)
REDE Feto - (REDE
FetoTimor Loro Sae) East Timorese
Women's Network
RENETIL - (Resistencia Nacional dos
Estudantes de Timor Leste) National Resistance of
East Timorese Students
SCU - Serious Crimes Unit
SRSG - Special Representative of the Secretary General
STAE - Secretariado Tecnico De Administraço
Eleitoral/Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration
Tetum - The primary indigenous language of the East Timorese.
Official language with Portuguese of East Timor
TFET - Trust Fund for East Timor
TSDA -
Timor Sea
Designated Authority
Timor Lorosae - East Timor in Tetun
Timor Timur - or Tim Tim, Indonesian name for East Timor.
TNI
- (Tentara Nasional Indonesia) Indonesian National Armed Forces
UDT
(Uniäo
Democrática Timorenese)
- Timorese Democratic Union. Formed in 174. Originally favored continued
ties with Portugal; then became pro-independence.
UNAMET
- United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor (11 June--29 October 1999).
Conducted August 30, 1999 referendum.
UNCLOS - United Nations Convention on the Law
of the Sea
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
UNHCHR - UN High Commission for Human Rights
UNHCR - UN High Commission for Refugees
UNICEF -United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
UNIFEM - United Nations Development
Fund for Women
UNMISET - UN
Mission in East Timor (20 May 2002 - )
UNMIT - United
Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
UNSC - United Nations Security Council
UNSG - UN Secretary-General
UNTAET - UN
Transitional Administration in East Timor (October 19, 1999 -May 19, 2002)
UNPOL - United Nations Police (name currently used)
UNV - United Nations Volunteers
USAID - United States Agency for International Development
USD - U.S. Dollars
Key Names
Dr Mari Alkatiri -
First Prime Minister of Democratic
Republic of East Timor
Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo - Former Catholic Bishop of Dili
; awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 with Jose Ramos Horta
Xanana Gusmäo, Kay Rala - Elected
president of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, April 2002. Inaugurated
May 20,
B.
J. Habibie- Suharto's Vice President; became President when Suharto
falls; voted out of office in 1999.
Megawati Sukarnoputri - President of Indonesia from July 2001,
after Wahid impeached. Daughter of Indonesia's founding president, Sukarno
Bishop Basilio do Nascimento - Bishop of Baucau, East Timor.
Appointed December 28, 1996, with creation of 2nd East Timor diocese.
Jose Ramos-Horta - 2nd Prime Minister of
Timor-Leste; Former Foreign Minister of Democratic
Republic of Timor-Leste Timor; warded Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 with
Bishop Belo
Suharto -- former President (dictator) of Indonesia,
Took over in 1965, forced from power in
May 1998
General Wiranto -- former head of the Indonesian Armed Forces
(ABRI) and Defense Minister
Colonel Tono Suratman -- former commander the Indonesian Armed Forces in East
Timor
Ali Alatas -- Indonesia's foreign minister (until
October 1999)
Abdurrahman Wahid - elected president of Indonesia, 20 October
1999. Impeached July 23, 2001.
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