****This great crime, where did it come from?
How to steal into the world?
What seeds, what roots are growing?
Who did this? Who killed us?
Robbing us of life and light ...
Oh my soul let me be in you now, Look through my eyes, Look at the things you have made All things shine****
Migrate. Overseas. In Tetum it is called lemorai. In Tanjung Sari subdistrict, Sumedang regency of West Java, there is a village inhabited by Timorese people. The surrounding community with Kampung Timor or Babakan Timor. I know of this place as a dumping place for Timorese people, probably related to the political conflict that culminated in East Timor in 1999. In my imagination, the village is full of those who are now former members of pro-integration militia like Aitarak, Laskaur, Besi Merah Putih who is familiar with human rights records during the 1999 conflict, who can not return to East Timor in relation to their crimes. Arriving there, the village looks more like a pesantren or orphan dormitory complex with a two-story dormitory, several classrooms, a boarding house, and simple wooden houses. Some small children are seen playing in the yard around. Children with dark skin, strong jawbones, and some curly hair stocks. Just like the melanesian physical criticism that inhabits the eastern regions of the archipelago. Then who are the children? I stumbled over them as a generation driven away from their homeland due to a conflict they did not share. Conflict is alive and inflamed by interest groups for whatever, to be paid by boys who do not yet understand what they should be experiencing. Just like the melanesian physical criticism that inhabits the eastern regions of the archipelago. Then who are the children? I stumbled over them as a generation driven away from their homeland due to a conflict they did not share. Conflict is alive and inflamed by interest groups for whatever, to be paid by boys who do not yet understand what they should be experiencing. Just like the melanesian physical criticism that inhabits the eastern regions of the archipelago. Then who are the children? I stumbled over them as a generation driven away from their homeland due to a conflict they did not share. Conflict is alive and inflamed by interest groups for whatever, to be paid by boys who do not yet understand what they should be experiencing.
I met with Pak Arif Marzuki, an Indonesian citizen, also a convert from Baucau District, East Timor. His current baptismal name is Martino Valera. About Timor's village, he explained that this was an institution built by overseas East Timorese in West Java since 1998: The Lemorai Timor Indonesia Foundation. The initiators are Mr. Arif (Martino Valera) himself and Hasan Basri (Roberto Freitas). Is an East Timorese student who was educated in Bandung by the government of the Republic of Indonesia since the 1990s. In its founding, the foundation aims to accommodate Timorese children who can not economically receive basic education up. Looking at the end of the period leading up to the referendum,
Furthermore, when the humanitarian tragedy broke out in East Timor after the 1999 referendum, the foundation also oversaw victims, in children in Atambua, NTT (though in very small) refugee camps to stay and get an education. Priority, for children affected by the conflict, is because the conditions at the refugee camp are very vulnerable to their growth: trauma, the loss of family members, the neglect of basic rights as children and an uncertain future. With less funding and limited resources, the foundations of the foundation can at least help some of the victims' children by providing a place to live and the environment they deserve to grow: care, attention, and education. Not only up till top, the board also tried to send their children to university level in West Java area. After they graduate, they are sent back to their homeland to build a growing East Timor as an independent nation. A noble task Happened to life ends to a halt at the point of suffering. The story of official nationalism expects a reward.
Matebian, War Crime and Hunger Disaster
About the conflict that plagued Timor Leste during the 24 years of Indonesian military occupation, Mr. Arif (Martino) told a long story. He recovered in 1968 in the village of Venilale. Subdistrito Osogori, Baucau District when Timor Leste was still a Portuguese colony. Both parents want him to become a priest next time. Pastors who can provide service to God and his people, and who are also respected by the community for sharing, loving others, and peace that is becoming rare in the earth of Lorosae. His father, Abel Valera was a Tropaz, an indigenous army who served in the Portuguese colonial army. Working for the invaders? I do not dare to judge. Because every one of us is required to be fair in the heart. Even the Ambonese and Javanese who joined the KNIL (Dutch) army were then mobilized to invade Aceh, they were just the same ordinary people needing rice or bread to fill his belly. Climate colonization made them, including Abel Valera became alienated. Without education, singing the governor-general of the victims of his colony's people is sustainable in ignorance, sustained in ignorance.
In 1975, when the Portuguese rulers in his colonies, including Timor began to waver by the effects of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal before, Fretilin proclaimed East Timor's independence after winning a civil war with the UDT party that wanted Timor to be the protector of Portugal. Abel Valera put weapons, he just wants to farm. He and his ordinary family want to live in peace and quiet. Regardless of who subsequently powered In December of the same year, the Indonesian military began launching a military invasion (in the code "Operasi Seroja") to place East Timor. This is the Jakarta response to the Balibo Declaration initiated by the four minority parties (Apodeti, UDT, KOTA, Trabalhista) who did not want to proclaim Fretilin, instead wanted to integrate with Indonesia. Harum of sandalwood provoked General Suharto's desire to 'integrate' East Timor into NKRI through military invasions and the removal of Fretilin 'communist' demons. War broke out again. Abel Valera did not want to take up arms. He is saturated, tired. He just wants to shoulder the hoe while away and go home farm. Moreover, little Martino who does not understand who is Fretilin, what is the Balibo Declaration, and why his village should be a battleground. He just wants to shoulder the hoe while away and go home farm. Moreover, little Martino who does not understand who is Fretilin, what is the Balibo Declaration, and why his village should be a battleground. He just wants to shoulder the hoe while away and go home farm. Moreover, little Martino who does not understand who is Fretilin, what is the Balibo Declaration, and why his village should be a battleground.
The city of Dili has fallen into the hands of the Indonesian military through ground, land and sea attacks. Create Indonesian military, win is still far and fast war run fast and easy. The Falintil Forces (Forcas Armadas de Libertacao Nacional de Timor Leste, the Fretilin wing) retreated to the inland districts for subsequent guerrillas in the forests and mountains. For the sake of total occupation, the Indonesian military continued to work for them to continue the construction operations to the rural areas on which the Falintil movement was based, regardless of the price to be paid. On Mount Matebian, still in Baucau district, little Martino can also be tried with the villagers in droves, avoiding the air strikes of Indonesian military fighter planes against the villages of the population as well as the surrounding farmland. In recent months they have survived in the caves, valleys and mountains of Matebian mountain, sheltered from Indonesian military goku. For Martino, the roar of the fighter jet and the chopper of the Indonesian helicopter bombarding in another direction is a terrible horror, a sign near the eye. He and his villagers burst to safety.
When Mr. Arif (Martino) says it, the shadow in my mind leads to a famous photograph of a Pulitzer-winning journalist who excavates screaming, fleeing children, free from napalm bombs, an orange fighter American agent targeting the Bang Bang village of Vietnam Perhaps such horrors were also experienced by small Martino and other villagers when jets and Indonesian military combat helicopters roared open fire and spewed bombs. The escape to the mountains also must be ready for suffering, full of deaths that at any time anc. A sister died of starvation. The nature of Timor is actually fertile, with longer dry season, plus siege and bombing of Indonesian military, these exodus can no longer cultivate their fields nor can they rely heavily on food from the forest. In the end the catastrophic famine becomes inevitable. Moreover, the air is very rare to find when the dry season arrives. In addition to his sister who became victims, there are several families who all died from being confined in a cave that became the target of a barrage of bombs of the Indonesian military. They are trapped without access to get out, no food, nor air. It was a common sight as little Martino trekked through the Matebian forests to search for food, corpses of civilians lying dead, starving to death as well as Indonesian military bomb attacks. Under such conditions, people no longer think about life, trained to choose in what way they would face: hunger, disease, or bombs. corpses of civilians lying dead, starving to death as well as Indonesian military bomb attacks. Under such conditions, people no longer think about life, trained to choose in what way they would face: hunger, disease, or bombs. corpses of civilians lying dead, starving to death as well as Indonesian military bomb attacks. Under such conditions, people no longer think about life, trained to choose in what way they would face: hunger, disease, or bombs.
The months of siege and bombing on Mount Matebian ultimately succeeded in paralyzing the remaining forces of Falintil guerillas. The Indonesian army pushed in. Contacts with civilians and relocation efforts are underway. As if suffering in Matebian is not enough, little Martino and other citizens must be isolated by the Indonesian military. As they descended the mountain, they were led to a mercado (a typical Portuguese building) to be concentrated in a tightly guarded refugee camp. The aim is to keep the population from the Falintil guerrillas into contacts between the two did not happen. Many also among the population were interrogated and tortured on suspicion of being part of the Falintil supporters' clandestine movement. In the campmercado, they were given a supply of food far from enough by the army. They were forbidden to go work on some of the remaining patches of fields that bordered the forests that missed the military-born gopter. Whenever it is desperate to escape from the camp, the army will not hesitate to die on the spot.
This condition is no different from that previously experienced in the mountains and forests. They are stuck in their own land. Caught in a battle between two forces fighting for a fortune over the earth of Lorosae. Their suffering is also exacerbated by the long-standing military control of the International Red Cross (ICRC) humanitarian aid and Catholic Relief Service (CRS) access [2]. The same thing that Britain did during World War II by not giving access to Oxfam (Oxford Committee for Hunger Relief) to the famine in Greece due to the Churchill blockade policy that caused tens of thousands of civilians to die of starvation. [3] Martino's Testimony of Starvation Disaster at Matebian is also strengthened by Documentation of some hearts films Documentary film entitled "Dalan Ba Dame" (The Road to Peace) released by the CAVR (East Timor Reception Commission, Truth and Reconciliation). In that recording, the image of the disaster in Matebian is so heartbreaking. There were recorded how the bony boys, a figure consisting only of skin-wrapped bones, containing empty plates expect food from a nun who was deployed in the assignment at the refugee camp. The suffering of the boys as well as other residents is the price to be paid from a war of conquest in East Timor. The war that made the morals of the morality of the population, through the famine as a way to gain. War with his crimes which at that time escaped the attention of the world, which is also to this day forgotten in the narrative of Indonesian history.
This is the scourge of pregnant Indonesian soldiers today with Falintil guerrilla war system. Sacrificing the basic rights of the civilian population for the purpose of occupation, for red-white waving, and for the sake of the regime's sustainability. Martino is small and the other residents also do not know who to trap anyone. Fretilin, if Xanana Gusmao could be tried by his troops to surrender to the Indonesian army, the suffering of hunger, the stakes of life in Matebian and on mercadom may not be necessary. Or the Indonesian military, the forces that have begun Seroja's operations, continue to harass the lives of the residents of Baucau district, as well as other areas of the world of Lorosae, which must even be paid by the lives of people who are victims of war or massive famine. They are just resigned. Can only accept the bitter star of war that drags them into suffering. If we go to history, even the Geneva Conventions themselves are not made for war to be abolished, it is formed only for the war itself to be 'civilized', to have a fair rule of the principle of chivalry And in fact, in a harsh war, where for every soldier there are only two commandments : killed or killed, these noble principles are not always heeded. Civilians are always vulnerable to being victims. The morality of citizens due to hunger may be the goal of the siege by the Indonesian military so that afterwards they (the inhabitants) turn away from the Falintil resistance forces. However, for them, the Indonesian military with the symbols it carries-the state, the air, and the language-is nothing but the foreign powers that the incidence and the trauma of the year turns out to be.
Lemorai and the East Timor Generation Node
The disaster at Matebian was just one of many humanitarian disasters that demanded the lives of many Timorese. The ordinary citizens who knew nothing, who had no interest in who was in charge of the earth of Lorosae. They may not willingly accept both Fretilin and the Indonesian military regime that must love the fortune of their ancestral lands. They just want to live quietly with the fields, cattle and a better life after the Portuguese invaders leave the land of Lorosae, the land in the rising sun.
Medium, the tragedy in Matebian is enough to be a bitter memory for Mr. Arif (Martino Valera) and his fellow enemies. He did not like the grudge against either the Indonesian military or Fretilin. He knows, that in every conflict, children are always vulnerable to become victims. He experienced it himself in Matebian, in the late 1970s ago. He is grateful to be alive and He only wants the next generation of Timorese, the children who are victims of political conflict in Atambua refuge, whose loss of family members, whose rights are not fulfilled, can look to his future with hope, as well as dreams. Not immersed in ignorance, ignorance. Currently he is an Indonesian citizen. He is convinced that the future generation he developed at Lemorai Timor will build Timor Leste in the future, in order to be able to stand parallel to the nations of the same world having the right to live independently, regardless of all forms of colonial domination . What he did was none other than an attempt to tie the knot through the equation of fate between different generations.
Rai Timor, Rai ita nian. East Timor is our homeland. The words that can be put together like a knot of a generation in Lemorai.
Like Mohammad's emigration from Mecca to Madiddah, the rantau, lemorai Timor in Tanjung Sari subdistrict is nothing but their retreat for later days to return to their homeland with a new, better life. For a vibrant East Timor, shine.
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1] Kutipan dalam narasi film The Thin Red Line (1998) , disutradarai oleh Terrence Malick.
[2] Chega! Laporan Komisi Penerimaan, Kebenaran, Dan Rekonsiliasi Timor Leste Vol I . Jakarta: KPG. 2010. Hlm., 252.
[3] Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: Perang Dunia Kedua dan Pertempuran untuk Pangan . London: Penguin Books. 2012. Hal., 167.
[4] Peter Roger, " Anak-anak yang Kelaparan di Timor Timur 1979". ( www.thecitizen.org.au ).
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