It’s the movie every expat in Timor-Leste has been talking about, the movie the Aussie media has been in a frenzy about and the movie some Indonesians would rather forget about. The real-life story that the movie Balibo is based on was always going...

It was about four in the afternoon and I was on Rote Island, West Timor, sat in someone’s front yard with half a dozen bare-chested, tough-looking Indonesian chaps. We were drinking sopi, (arak) as you do on a sunny Saturday afternoon. There were a...

This is interesting. From Timor-Leste government stats: There are around three thousand East-Timorese with Portuguese nationality living in United Kingdom, mainly in Northern Ireland, Manchester and Oxford. I knew there were a lot, but didn’t realise...

I’ve been in West Timor for the past few days. I’d always been curious about this place. After spending a year or so in East Timor, I wondered what life was like on the other side of the border, and from what I’ve seen, it’s not all that...

From the Dili Insider: Due to a series of telephone and email threats, this blog will shut down effective immediately. It will however return. The DI Team This is bad news.