Raihat

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Kecamatan Raihat
Raihat District
Basic data
Country Indonesia
province East Nusa Tenggara
Administrative district BeluTemplate: Infobox administrative unit / maintenance / other
Seat Haekesak
Residents 13,319 (2010)
ISO 3166-2 ID-NT

Coordinates: 9 ° 0 ′  S , 125 ° 7 ′  E

Turiskain (Lesser Sunda Islands)
Turiskain
Turiskain
Location in East Nusa Tenggara Province

Raihat ( Rai Hat ) is an Indonesian district ( Kecamatan ) in the administrative district ( Kabupaten ) Belu ( East Nusa Tenggara Province ).

geography

Raihat is located in the far east of the Indonesian West Timor and is bordered to the east and north by the municipality of Bobonaro , which belongs to the state of East Timor . In the west is the Indonesian district of Lasiolat and in the east and south of the district of Lamaknen .

The district of Raihat is divided into the Desas Asumanu (1,770 inhabitants 2010), Tohe (5,517), Raifatus (760), Aitoun (1,478), Maumutin (3,042) and Tohe Leten (752).

The main town is Haekesak in Desa Maumutin.

Residents

The majority of the 13,319 inhabitants (2010) The majority of the population speaks Tetum as their mother tongue . The Bunak ethnic minority lives in the southeast of Raihat .

history

Map of the International Court of Arbitration used to draw the line between Dutch and Portuguese Timor

The region was long disputed between the colonial powers Portugal and the Netherlands . After a lengthy exchange of letters between the cabinets of the Länder, an agreement was reached in the 1913 Convention to leave the decision on the disputes to an arbitrator. On June 25, 1914, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issued an arbitral award (Sentenca Arbitral) . The land survey work was completed in April 1915. On August 17, 1916, the treaty was signed in The Hague, which largely defined the border between East and West Timor that still exists today.

During the wave of violence following the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999 , pro-Indonesian militias are said to have been trained by the Indonesian military in refugee camps in order to be able to continue the war in East Timor. Around 25,000 East Timorese were deported to camps around Turiskain during the crisis.

In the first few years after East Timor's independence, there were repeated incidents on the Indonesian border.

On September 19, 2003, the East Timorese policeman Agustini Barros shot dead the Indonesian Vegas Biliatu from East Timor in the border area between the East Timorese Tunu Bibi ( Suco Tapo / Memo ) and Turiskain. According to the Indonesian police, the victim had been warned by the police patrol to enter East Timorese territory, whereupon Vegas pointed its arrows at the police. At this point in time, the border in this area had already been defined by the neighboring states but had not yet been clearly marked.

On January 6, 2006, three Indonesians were shot dead by East Timorese police on the border near Turiskain on the Malibaca River . According to Indonesian military sources, the three victims were fishing when fire opened on them without warning. Jakarta protested violently. Following the incident, East Timorese women were raped.

economy

There is a regional market in Turiskain.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
  2. ^ Map of Belu
  3. ^ Antoinette Schapper: Crossing the border: Historical and linguistic divides among the Bunaq in central Timor
  4. ↑ Geoffrey C. Gunn: History of Timor ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Technical University of Lisbon (PDF file; 805 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pascal.iseg.utl.pt
  5. ↑ Hague Justice Portal: Island of Timor: Award - Boundaries in the Island of Timor  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / haguejusticeportal.net  
  6. ↑ "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report by CAVR (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cavr-timorleste.org
  7. ↑ TAPOL (Indonesian human rights organization): Report on East Timorese refugees in West Timor, November 11, 1999
  8. ^ UNHCR, Timor Emergency Update, October 14, 1999
  9. ↑ ETAN, September 25, 2003, Shooting may speed up border supervision
  10. ↑ Tempointeractive, January 6, 2006, Three Indonesians Shot by Timor Leste Police ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ Damien Kingsbury: The political economy of cross-border relations. The TNI and East Timor. (PDF; 2.0 MB) Deakin University's institutional research repository, November 1, 2003, p. 279 , accessed on February 27, 2011 (English): “… located at Turiskain, on the Lois River between Balibo and Maliana in Bobonaro district . These markets operated on alternate days - Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Motaain, and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at Turiskain. The establishment of the markets at these two previously major refugee crossing points was primarily the idea of ​​then Bobonaro District Administrator, ... "