Debos

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Debos
The Ave Maria Church of Suai
The Suco Debos is located in the southwest of the administrative office of Suai.
Data
surface 44.32 km²
population 11,336  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Agostinho da Silva
(election 2009)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Ahinarai 1,398
Asumats 825
Asurai 3,174
Busacucun 1,851
Laconac Babu 476
Laconac Besic 980
Lo'oque 606
Lontale 46
Tabacolot 1,980
Suai (East Timor)
Suai
Suai
Coordinates: 9 ° 19 ′  S , 125 ° 15 ′  E

Debos ( Debus ) is an East Timorese Suco in the Suai Administrative Office ( Cova Lima municipality ).

geography

Debos
places position height
Ahinarai 9 ° 19 ′  S , 125 ° 15 ′  E 13  m
Asumats 9 ° 19 ′  S , 125 ° 16 ′  E 8  m
Bonuc 9 ° 19 ′  S , 125 ° 15 ′  E ?
Busacucun 9 ° 20 ′  S , 125 ° 14 ′  E 51  m
Busakukua 9 ° 20 ′  S , 125 ° 14 ′  E ?
Fatukoan 9 ° 21 ′  S , 125 ° 12 ′  E 111  m
Kulite 9 ° 19 ′  S , 125 ° 10 ′  E 300  m
Laconac Babu 9 ° 20 ′  S , 125 ° 12 ′  E 98  m
Laconac Besic 9 ° 20 ′  S , 125 ° 13 ′  E 79  m
Lookeu 9 ° 18 ′  S , 125 ° 13 ′  E ?
Orun 9 ° 18 ′  S , 125 ° 15 ′  E 29  m
Serankotek 9 ° 20 ′  S , 125 ° 14 ′  E 51  m
Suai 9 ° 19 ′  S , 125 ° 15 ′  E 13  m
Talioan 9 ° 20 ′  S , 125 ° 15 ′  E 23  m

Before the 2015 territorial reform, Debos had an area of ​​67.34 km². Now there are 44.32 km². The Suco is located in the southwest of the Suai Administrative Office. After the independence of East Timor, the Sucos Laconac and Vila were also affiliated to him. The Suco Suai Loro is located southeast of Debos and Camenaça is to the east . In the north Debos borders on the administrative office Maucatar with its Sucos Matai and Ogues , in the west on the administrative office Fohorem with the Suco Fohoren and in the south on the administrative office Tilomar with the Sucos Lalawa , Maudemo and Casabauc . The border to Tilomar and Fohorem is formed by the Tafara river , or in the north its tributary, the Asaematen . The Karautun , a headwaters of the Camenaça, follows the border with Matai and partly with Ogues.

Suai , the capital of Cova Lima and the administrative office of the same name, is located in the east of Sucos. It consists of a collection of several small towns that form a closed settlement. They include Ahinarai ( Ahi Na Rai ), Asumaten ( German  dead dog ), Bonuc and Orun . Coming from the north, the overland road to Dili , Aileu and Ainaro meets the southern coastal road, which continues to the east and west. The villages Serankotek , Busakukua , Busacucun ( Busa Cucum ), Laconac Babu ( Laconac Babu , Lakonalbabu ) and Fatukoan are located on its western arm in the Suco . Finally the road leaves the Suco over a bridge over the Tafara. To the south, near the road, are the villages of Talioan and Laconac Besic ( Lakonakbesik ). Other places in Suco are Lookeu ( Laukeu ) in the north and Kulit in the west . The Suai Settlement Center has two pre-schools, two primary schools (including Escola Primaria Catolica Ave Maria Suai ), two preparatory schools for secondary education, a secondary school, a developed helipad, a hospital, a community health center and a police station. Suai Airport is located in Suco Suai Loro. There are further primary schools in Talioan, Busacucun and Laconac Babu, preparatory schools for secondary schools in Talioan and Busacucun. The Ave Maria Church in Suai was not completed until after independence.

In the Suco there are the nine Aldeias Ahinarai , Asumaten (in the settlement center Suai), Asurai ( German  Hundeland ), Busacucun , Laconac Babu , Laconac Besic , Lo'oque , Lontale and Tabacolot .

Residents

Dancer with a surik in Suai (2019)
Women with Kaibauk on their heads and babadok drums

11,336 inhabitants live in the Suco (2015), of which 5,719 are men and 5,617 women. The population density is 255.8 inhabitants / km². There are 1,949 households in the Suco. Over 55% of the population name Bunak as their mother tongue. Over 35% speak Tetum Terik , over 10 % speak Tetum Prasa and a small minority speak Kemak .

history

Timor’s pre-colonial history is only known orally, as the peoples of the island did not use any script. Originally, five kingdoms ruled the core region of the municipality: Camenaça ( Kamenasa ), Suai, Maucatar, Taroman and Fohorem . Fohorem dominated the other empires through diplomacy, marriage policies and campaigns of conquest against other empires in the region. After the Liurai of Fohorem had secured sovereignty over the region, he gave each of his five daughters their own kingdom as a fief. In return, they paid tribute in the form of agricultural and forestry products. Another source states that the three kingdoms Fatumean , Lookeu and Dakolo initially joined together to form the Uma Tolu ( "Three Houses" ) coalition . Only after a war against the Portuguese did the kingdoms of Sisi and Maudemi join in and Koba Lima was created . By corruption, "Koba" later became "Cova". Because of the colonial demarcation, with the Treaty of Lisbon between the Netherlands and Portugal, Sisi, Maudemi and half of Lookeus came to what is now Indonesian West Timor , while the rest of Lookeu, Fatumean and Dakolo remained Portuguese. Ties across the border still exist today.

From 1975, Indonesia occupied East Timor, which had only just declared itself independent. A guerrilla war against the occupiers followed. The Serious Crimes Unit of UNTAET reported that so-called Rape Houses existed in Suai during the Indonesian occupation (1975-1999) . In 1999, a referendum was held in which the overwhelming majority of East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia. The result was massive outbreaks of violence by pro-Indonesian militias , including in Cova Lima. One of the worst incidents nationwide was the Suai church massacre , in which the Laksaur militia and the Indonesian military murdered up to 200 people.

politics

In the elections of 2004/2005 was Agostinho da Silva elected Chefe de Suco and in 2009 re-elected.

Web links

Commons : Debos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  3. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas Volume 2 English ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (2010 census; PDF; 22.6 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dne.mof.gov.tl
  4. ↑ Timor-Leste: Poverty in a Young Nation ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  5. ^ Timor-Leste GIS-Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
  7. ↑ UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 449 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / unmit.unmissions.org
  8. ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
  9. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Debos ( tetum ; PDF; 8.3 MB)
  10. ↑ Cova Lima District Development Plan 2002/2003, p. 5 ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF file; 2.24 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.estatal.gov.tl
  11. ↑ Suai Media Space: Koba Lima - Suai
  12. ^ Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University
  13. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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