Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho

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Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho (2020)

Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho , fighting name Saka′onar (born July 2, 1966 in Dili , Portuguese Timor ), is an environmental activist and politician from East Timor . He has been State Secretary for the Environment since 2018.

Career

Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho at the first national congress of the PLP (2017)
Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho (2019)

Carvalho grew up in a village south of Vila de Liquiçá . In 1975 his father was murdered by members of the left-wing FRETILIN . In the same year Indonesia occupied East Timor. Carvalho hid in the woods for four years. As a schoolboy he began to work in the East Timorese resistance. In 1988 Carvalho graduated from the SMA 5 school in Yogyakarta, Indonesia . Later he joined the Resistência Nacional dos Estudantes de Timor-Leste RENETIL ( German  National Resistance of Students from Timor-Leste ), East Timor's leading student resistance movement. Carvalho was involved in the publication of the first RENETIL magazines. In 1990 he graduated from Gadjah Mada University with a degree in ecology . One week after the 1991 Santa Cruz massacre , Carvalho was arrested by Indonesian police and detained without trial for three weeks. The reason was his participation in a protest in Jakarta .

In 1998, Carvalho founded the Haburas Foundation, East Timor's only non-governmental organization for environmental protection, shortly before the Indonesians left the country. Haburas means "to make something green and fresh" in Tetum . The organization runs classes and supports programs to create livelihoods for the population. She succeeded in bringing environmental protection into the East Timorese constitution (Section 61). The organization received much applause for its environmental protection programs , which follow the traditional rules of the Tara Bandu , which reflect Timor’s ecological knowledge.

Carvalho is a member of the Partidu Libertasaun Popular (PLP). On May 20, 2017, he was elected one of six deputies to party leader Taur Matan Ruak . In the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2017 , Carvalho took fifth place on the PLP's list and thus became a member of the national parliament . Here he became chairman of the Commission for Economy and Development (Commission D). In the 2018 parliamentary elections , Carvalho missed entry into parliament on list position 52 of the Aliança para Mudança e Progresso (AMP), the joint list of PLP, CNRT and KHUNTO . For this he was sworn in as State Secretary for the Environment on June 22, 2018.

Others

Carvalho's wife passed away in 2019. The couple had been married since 1995 and had three sons and a daughter.

In 2004 Carvalho received the Goldman Environmental Prize .

Publications

  • Sandlund, OT, I. Bryceson, D. de Carvalho, N. Rio, J. da Silva and MI Silva: Assessing Environmental Needs and Priorities in East Timor: Final Report . Dili, Trondheim: UNDP-Dili and Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2001.

Web links

Commons : Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ East Timor’s National Parliament: Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho , accessed on May 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Islands & Islan Nations 2004. Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho. East Timor. Environmental policy . Goldman Environmental Prize. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Grist: Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho champions East Timor's environment, 2004 , accessed on January 26, 2014
  4. ↑ The Constitution of East Timor (English)
  5. ^ Timor Hau Nian Doben: E Timor civil society on skid row: President , accessed on March 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ PLP: Estrutura , accessed June 19, 2017.
  7. ↑ La'o Hamutuk 2017 Timor-Leste Parliamentary Election - List of Parliamentary slates from all parties , accessed July 14, 2017.
  8. ↑ La'o Hamutuk: Who will be in Timor-Leste's next Parliament? / Se sei tuir iha Parlamentu Nasionál? , July 23, 2017 , accessed July 24, 2017.
  9. ↑ National Parliament of East Timor: Comissões Especializadas Permanentes, Competencia e Composição 2017–2022 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 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. , accessed October 4, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parlamento.tl
  10. ^ Election lists for the 2018 parliamentary elections
  11. ↑ SAPO: Primeiro grupo de membros do VIII Governo timorense tomou posse em Díli , June 22, 2018 , accessed on June 23, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Carvalho, Demétrio do Amaral de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saka′onar (battle name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese environmental activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Dili , Portuguese Timor