Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Poeta Oan Ida

Our Cidade Dili

Like a father calling his sons with open arms from distance
So is the statue of Cristo Rei calling from above Fatucama
Like a white bed made of white cotton
So is the white sand of Rai Henek Mutin inviting me to lye down for longer

Like an eagle scanning and focusing on her prey quietly
So is my Cristo Rei scanning and focusing on Cidade Dili quietly.
Like a man never turn his eyes from his beloved one
So is my Cristo Rei never turns his eyes from Cidade Dili

O… Cidade Dili and its people
You are called to arise because you are sleepy for too long
O… you noble people of the Cidade Dili
You are called to reconstruct the great city of sleepy Cidade Dili

O… you people of Cidade Dili
You have been into corruption for too long
You have been into nepotism for too long
You have been into collusion for too long

O… noble people of Cidade Dili
Turn your eyes and look east and see what Cristo Rei tell you to do
Turn your eyes and look west and see what Sao Paulo II tells you to do
O… You noble people surrendered with all the Noble people
Can you stop all the evil works and do noble works
Can you wake up now and rebuild the sleepy city of Cidade Dili

Arise, O…sleepy city and its people
Arise and sleepy no more
Arise and be noble people always
O… noble people of Cidade Dili
Never doubt for you are taught and guided, equipped and protected
Never doubt for you are noble people once but now wicked for doing the evil works

O… Noble people of Cidade Dili
Reconstruct the sleepy city for you are trying it very hard
Draw your map on the planet for you have drawn the beginning line
Never stop dreaming for you are imaginative
Come back for you have the courage to do so
Come back for you have been there once


By: Ernesto D.C Pinto

Ita nia Cidade Dili

Hanesan pai ida bolu nia oan mane sira ho liman nakloke husi do’ok
Nune’e mos statua cristo rei bolu husi Fatucama
Hanesan culsaun mutin halo husi kapas mutin
Nune’e mos area rai henek mutin bolu hau atu descansa kleur tan

Hanesan manu aquia buka no tiru matan ba nia victimas ho nonok
Nune’e mos statua Cristo Rei buka no tiru matan ba Cidade Dili ho nonok
Hanesan Mane foun ida nunka hases nia matan husi nia feto foun
Nune’e mos statua Cristo Rei nunka hases nia matan husi Cidade Dili

O… Cidade Dili ho nia povo sira
Bolu husi Fatucama atu Ita hader tan Ita matan dukur hela
O… ema diak sira husi Cidade Dili
Bolu husi Fatucama atu Ita Reconstrui grande Cidade Dili

O… Povo husi Cidade Dili
Ita tama ona ba currupsaun kleur demais ona
Ita tama ona ba Nepotismo kleur demain ona
Ita tama ona ba kolusaun kleur demais ona

O... povo Maubere husi Cidade Dili
Soe matan no hateke ba leste no rona saida mak statua Cristo Rei hatete ba Ita
Soe matan no hateke ba oeste no rona saida mak statua Sao Paolo II hatete ba Ita
O…povo maubere Haleu ho ema boot Santo sira
Ita bele hapara hahalok a’at sira ne no halo hahalok glorioso
Ita bele hader ona ba no reconstrui Cidade Dili nebe sei toba hela

Hader, O… Cidade Dili ho nia povo sira
Hader no lalika toba tan
Hader no sai ba ema nebe glorioso
O… ema glorioso husi Cidade Dili
Nunka duvida tan ita hanorin, acompania equipa no protégé hela
Nunka duvida tan ita ema glorioso ida iha passado mas agora a’at tan ita nia hahalok a’at

O… ema glorioso husi Cidade dili
Reconstruir ba cidade Dili tan Ita koko makas demais ona
Desenho ba Ita nia mapa iha planeta ida ne tan ita desenho ona linha primeira
Nunka para atu mehi tan ita Imaginativo
Fila mai ba tan ita iha coragen atu halo ida ne’e
Fila mai ba tan ita uluk halo ona ida ne’e

By: Ernesto D.C Pinto

Friday, September 25, 2009

Oil spill in Timor Sea to be plugged 'next week'

A MAJOR oil and gas leak off the North-West coast is expected to be plugged some time next week, according to its operators.

The West Atlas oil rig has been pumping up to 400 barrels of oil and gas a day into the Timor Sea since it start leaking in mid-August.

PTTEP Australasia said today that drilling had commenced to reach a depth of 2.3km in the latest stage of the operation to drill a relief well to stop the flow of oil, gas and water from the Montara well head platform.

The drilling operation is expected to be completed by Sunday, with the final phase of drilling to 2.6km scheduled for early next week.

After drilling is complete, sophisticated electro magnetic ranging tools will be used to intersect the existing well, which will be plugged with heavy mud to stop the flow of oil and gas.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority was continuing to surface spray and try to contain the existing spill, which is 250km off the North-West coast, about 75km east of Ashmore Reef.

The oil slick covered as much as 6000sq/km earlier this month, with conservationists critical of the response to the spill, which they say threatens a number of marine species, including some that are endangered.

A PTTEP Australasia spokeswoman said the leaking bore was due to be plugged “by the first week of October’’.

source: news.com.au

Indonesia-Timor Leste: Is this true friendship?

Galuh Wandita , Jakarta | Fri, 09/25/2009 12:19 PM | Opinion

Ten years ago, on Sept. 5, 1999, Father Hilario Medeira called to say that he did not think he and the hundreds of terrified families at the Suai Church would survive the day. They had run out of food and medicine, and he no longer felt able to stop the wave of violence encroaching on his doorstep.

On the other end of the phone was a group of humanitarian workers in Dili, made up of Indonesians and East Timorese, committed to bringing aid to the victims of violence, in an attempt to preserve some universal values of compassion amid the rising surge of violence over the UN-administered ballot, held on Aug. 30, 1999.

Not long after this phone call, violent attacks took place in almost all 13 regencies in East Timor.

The UN evacuated, and everyone scattered to seek safety as East Timor turned into a murderous inferno. But the friendship and camaraderie among those Indonesians and Timorese who had worked together to uphold our common humanity, shaped by the risk, adventure and loss experienced during those days, withstood the test of time and remains vibrant despite the fact that East Timor is no longer part of Indonesia.

Coming back into East Timor with Oxfam's emergency team, I visited the Suai Church in October 1999.

The town was still deserted, except for a few brave souls who had hidden in the mountains. When they returned, they placed bright pink and red bougainvillea flowers in the places where they knew people had been killed then torched. In one corner of the church, a set of keys, broken glasses and burnt human remains were covered with flowers.

"This was Father Hilario," whispered a young clergyman who had escaped the massacre. Two other priests, Father Dewanto, a young Indonesian Jesuit, and Father Francisco also perished along with scores of civilians seeking refuge at the church.

All over the compound were empty boxes of noodles, discarded empty dishes and human belongings, clothes covered in bloodstains. Not long after, women's groups began documenting stories of abduction, rape and sexual violence, and began providing support for some of the survivors.

Ten years later, Indonesia has made some progress in acknowledging the truth with regard to its dark past. In relation to the Suai Church massacre, a rigorous inquiry was conducted by Indonesia's human rights commission (KPPHAM Timor-Timur) regarding the 1999 crimes leading to the trial of 18 defendants by an ad hoc human rights court.

However, all defendants were either acquitted at the first instance or upon appeal, and these trials have widely been dismissed as not meeting standards of a fair trial.

The Commission for Truth and Friendship (CTF) focused a considerable amount of its resources into examining the crimes that took place at the Suai Church, including the sexual crimes committed alongside the disappearances and murders that took place.

When it handed over its report in June 2008, the CTF concluded that "pro-autonomy militia groups, the TNI, the Indonesian civilian government and the National Police must all bear institutional responsibility for gross human rights violations targeted against civilians perceived as supporting the pro-independence cause. These crimes include murder, torture, rape and forced transfer or deportation."

This report was officially accepted by the presidents of Indonesia and Timor Leste in June 2008. The CTF was mandated to seek the "conclusive truth" on what took place in 1999, and close the door on the past.

The former was accomplished through its review of the performances of the serious crimes trials in Jakarta and Dili, as well as an assessment of the findings of the KPPHAM inquiry and Timor Leste's truth and reconciliation commission (CAVR).

The latter is not such an easy task. Closing the door on the past involves more than merely the stated policies of state officials. Policies cannot force themselves on the feelings of people affected by these events, especially victims and their families.

Official inquiries by the KPPHAM, CTF, several UN commissions and the CAVR all came to the same finding: that crimes against humanity were committed in East Timor in 1999. With this finding, a new legal obligation emerges - the obligation to prosecute those responsible.

True to its name, crimes against humanity offend all humankind, and do not distinguish their victims and perpetrators on the basis of nationality.

The CTF report, now in the hands of the Indonesian and Timor Leste governments, has set a foundation for friendship based on truth.

However the "conclusive truth" that crimes against humanity took place in East Timor in 1999 has given rise to a new set of responsibilities - the responsibility to bring perpetrators to justice.

Genuine friendship means speaking the truth, even when the truth is painful and brings difficult consequences.

If Indonesia is not ready to grapple with justice for these crimes, perhaps our friendship with Timor Leste will allow us to defer this for a while, but the responsibility will never perish.

It cannot be wished away, and if not dealt with now will continue to haunt the next generations of our citizens.

This is clearly evident in trials currently taking place in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Argentina, Peru and many other countries where perpetrators of crimes against huma-nity are being brought to justice decades after they committed these crimes.

Justice for Father Hilario and the thousands of victims killed, raped and tortured in Timor Leste is also still elusive. Indonesia's role in promoting friendship with Timor Leste should be like any true friendship. It must be based on a willingness to accept and face the truth, no matter how painful and unpleasant, and to take steps together so that the snarling dog of the past is properly dealt with.

source: jakarta Post

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Aussie oil spill set to continue leaking: company

SYDNEY — The company at the centre of a massive oil spill off Australia's northwest said Tuesday it was still about two weeks away from plugging the leak, which has already been gushing for more than a month.

An estimated 400 barrels of oil has spilled daily into the Timor Sea since the West Atlas drilling rig began leaking on August 21, forcing the evacuation of 69 workers, according to Bangkok-headquartered PTTEP Australasia.

PTTEP said it began drilling a relief well to divert the leaking oil and gas on Monday, after a mobile rig arrived from Indonesia. It needs to bore 2.6 kilometres (1.6 miles) under the seabed, which will take about a week.

"This will be followed some 24 hours later by a specialist crew boarding the West Atlas rig and well head platform to further secure the situation by plugging the well bore," the company said in a statement.

"This operation is expected to take about another week."

Heavy mud would be used to plug the leaking bore, it said, adding that more than 300 people were involved in the relief effort about 250 kilometres off the Australian coast.

Tonnes of dispersant chemicals have been dumped on the spill, reportedly Australia's worst since offshore drilling began more than 40 years ago, and ecologists fear the toxic cocktail could threaten marine and coastal species.

source:hosted news

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

East Timor designates areas to set up oil industry centre

Darwin, Australia, 14 Sept – East Timor’s secretary of state for natural resources, Alfredo Pires said that the government had designated three areas in the south of the country to become the centre of the Timorese oil industry, according to reports in the local press.

The area may, in the future, be the site of a petrochemical plant, a liquid propane gas (LPG) factory and a fuel supply centre.

East Timor and Australia share the profits of the Bayu Undan field in the Timor Sea, but are unable to agree on oil reserves at the Greater Sunrise oil field.

The Bayu Undan field is operated by ConocoPhillips and has been producing gas since 2006.

A group of oil companies led by Australia’s Woodsie plans to create support facilities for the Greater Sunrise field some 530 kilometres to the south of Darwin, Ausralia, where ConocoPhilips has a liquid gas plant.

The Greater Sunrise field has estimated light oil reserves of 240 million barrels and 154 billion cubic metres of natural gas.

Pires said that the Timor government believed that in order for the population to benefit from oil resources “they need to be on our coast.”

“We are not just partners in the oil field. We are also owners,” he added.

Pires told news agency Associated Press that the East Timor Oil Fund had reserves of around US$5 billion, which was sufficient to build infrastructures such as roads, ports, and a power plant, but was negotiating with several foreign companies to obtaining funding of US$10 billion to launch the petrochemical industry.

Officials at the Australian company have said that a pipeline 180 kilometres long could be built from the Greater Sunrise wells to the East Timor coast, but have noted that it would be a very expensive and risky project.
source:macauhub

Saturday, August 29, 2009

tradusaun ba Monte laleno and its wind

Monte Laleno ho ninia Anin

Hader, O… anin Laleno, mai no hu’u neneik ba
Hu’u neneik sa’e ba leten no tun ba kraik Monte Laleno
Hu’u neneik O… anin Laleno, to’o rai dadersan no rai nakukun
Hu’u ba rai kuak, emar sira nia hahalok a’at
Hu’u a’as ba lalehan emar sira nia spirito.
Spirito unidade, spirito reconciliasaun,
Spirito paz, spirito harmonia, spirito domin (amor) no servisu-badinas

O… Monte Laleno ho ninia anin, hamrik a’as iha ema hotu nia le’et
Hatudu mai hau ita nia hu’u furak ne’e, to’o rai dadersan no rai nakukun
Ita nia hu’u morin no hu’u naroman
Ita nia hu’u nakonu ho fruta furak no murak
Fruta nebe hau desejava durante decadas
Fruta nebe hau perdi durante tin-tinan
Fruta nebe hau espera durante ful-fulan, lor-loron no or-oras

O… Monte Laleno ho ninia anin
Loke ita liman no hakuak hau besik
Hakuak metin hau ba ita nia sorin no hanorin hau
Hanorin hau ho ita nia hu’u furak ne,
Hanorin hau atu tuir ita nia hu’u ba nebe-nebe deit
Hanorin hau atu tuir ita nia hu’u, sa’e ba leten no tun ba kraik Monte Laleno
Hanorin hau atu comprende ita nia hu’u malirin iha kalan ne’e

O… Monte laleno ho ninia anin
Hamrik as iha curtina kotuk kleur tebes ona
Tempo to’o ona atu Ita hu’u Ita nia anin kalan malirin
Hatudu ba mundo tomak katak Ita bele hamrik a’as no a’as liu tan
Espera katak, Ita bele hamrik a’as liu tan iha hau nia fuan no laran
Espera katak, Ita bele fo mahon ba Ita nia povo
Espera katak Ita bele fo Ita nia anin kalan malirin ba Ita nia povo

By: Ernesto D.C Pinto

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Welcome to Monte-Laleno blog

Ola,
Loron Diak
Mauberes i Buiberes iha nebe deit, hau espera que liu husi blog ida ne ita bele fahe no contribui ba malu ita nia opinion, experiencia, sentimento, imaginasaun no SST.

Hau espera mos katak, ita bele fahe imformasaun nebe relevante no fo beneficio ba ita nudar sidadaun Timor Leste (TL) nebe bele contribui buat ida maski ki'ik oan iha ema seluk nia matan.

Colegas,,, mai ita hamutuk contribui ba ita nia nasaun nia historia moris

"The change We all can do to change our beloved country TL for better place"

Abraco.