Sociedade Agrícola Pátria e Trabalho
The Sociedade Agrícola Pátria e Trabalho Lda. SAPT ( German Society for Agriculture, Fatherland and Labor ) was a society that had extensive monopolies in the colony of Portuguese Timor .
Governor José Celestino da Silva (1894-1908) founded the SAPT in 1897. During his tenure, he was involved in almost all private plantation companies or their owner and the SAPT acted practically as a state within the state. The Empresa Agrícola Perseverança and the Empresa Agrícola Timor Limitada also belonged to the SAPT as subdivisions .
At the end of the 1920s, SAPT produced 200 tons of coffee in Portuguese Timor and bought a hundred more tons for export. As Portugal in the Great Depression of the 1930s, close to the bankruptcy came, the SAPT had 47.62% of its shares to Banco Nacional Ultra Marino transferred (BNU). In 1940, Sachimaro Sagawa , a member of the board of the Japanese Nan'yō Kōhatsu, bought 48% of the SAPT for one million pounds sterling. Sales Luís , who had sold the shares to the Japanese, was banned from Portuguese Timor as a "bad patriot".
From 1941 the SAPT was the colony's only large plantation and trading company. It also controlled trade with Portugal and Japan, thus controlling 20% of all Portuguese-Timorian trade. In addition, the SAPT had a monopoly on the purchase of Arabica coffee, the most important and noble variety in Timor.
After the Second World War , the Japanese lost their shares. 40% of the SAPT now belonged to the Portuguese state (the former Japanese shares), 52% to the Silva family and 8% to the BNU. In import / export, it and the Sociedade Oriental de Transportes e Armazens (Sota) were the only companies that were not in the hands of the local Chinese population . On Rua Sebastião / Rua Dom Fernando (today Rua da Justiça / Rua de Moçambique ), across from Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado , was built in 1948/49 as one of the first new buildings in Dili after the Second World War, the new administration building of the SAPT. The company name "SAPT" can still be seen under the new paint above the former main entrance. Part of the building was initially used by the BNU until they erected a new building in the 1960s . Today the building houses various companies that, for example, offer engineering services or trade in food.
After the Indonesian invasion in 1975, Indonesian officers took control of the SAPT for personal gain, which meant the end of the SAPT. After East Timor became independent in 2002, land that had been expropriated during the colonial or occupation times began to be returned to the original owners and their descendants.
Individual evidence
- ^ WG Clarence-Smith: Planters and small holders in Portuguese Timor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , East Timor Agriculture Network and Virtual Library, London, March 1992 ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Geoffrey C. Gunn: History of Timor. , P. 105 ff. ( Memento of the original dated 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)
- ↑ a b Robert Lee: Crisis in a Backwater: 1941 in Portuguese Timor , Lusotopie 2000: pp. 175-189.
- ↑ Património Arquitectónico de Origem Portuguesa de Díli , p. 113 , accessed on December 18, 2016.
- ↑ The Economist: Reassuring the little coffee growers Proves Hard , May 5, 2012 , accessed on 22 December 2016th
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