Suara Timor Lorosa'e

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Suara Timor Lorosa'e

description East Timorese newspaper
publishing company Suara Timor Lorosa'e Corporation
First edition February 1, 1993
Frequency of publication Every day
Sold edition 3000-5000 copies
(STL: Profile , 2012 )
Web link STL online

The Suara Timor Lorosa'e (STL) is East Timor's oldest existing daily newspaper. It appears in the national languages Portuguese and Tetum and in English and Bahasa Indonesia . During the Indonesian occupation until 1999, the newspaper was called Suara Timor Timur (STT).

Overview

The newspaper is part of the Suara Timor Lorosa'e Corporation , which also includes the television station TV-STL and the radio station STL Radio FM (RSTL).

The newspaper appears in the format 75 × 57 cm, with eight columns . It has been used since the acquisition of the GOSS Community printer , which was jointly funded by the company with help from Portugal and Finland . The daily circulation is 3000 copies, in the case of special events the production is increased to 5000. According to an agreement, 800 copies will be made available to the government for distribution in all sucos in the country in order to provide information to local administrators.

In 2011, STL was number one among the country's daily newspapers with a reader share of 44%, ahead of the Timor Post with 38%.

The editor is Salvador Ximenes Soares , a former member of the Golkar in the Indonesian parliament . Domingos Saldanha , the co-publisher and editor-in-chief of STL, is related to Estanislau de Sousa Saldanha , the former rector of the Dili Institute of Technology (DIT) and to João Mariano Saldanha , the founder of the Partidu Republikanu (PR).

history

On February 1, 1993 the first edition of the Suara Timor Timur was printed. It was the first private and independent professional newspaper in East Timor, which was occupied by Indonesia at the time. On this day, the first day of the trial against the leader of the East Timorese independence movement Xanana Gusmão took place in the district court of Dili . The UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said the reporting of the STT to the process in his report to the General Assembly of the United Nations :

"The trial has received extensive coverage in the new local media in Dili, Suara Timor Timur (STT)"

The newspaper belonged to integration advocate Francisco Lopes da Cruz .

The last edition of STT appeared on September 3, 1999 and the next day the newspaper ceased operations completely due to the arson and destruction by the pro-Indonesian militias during the last wave of violence before the Indonesians left. All the newspaper's facilities, including the printing machines, were completely destroyed and the buildings burned down. The first edition of the re-founded newspaper did not appear until July 31, 2000, now under the name Suara Timor Lorosa'e ( German  voice of East Timor ). It was decided to only translate the term for “East” from Indonesian into Tetum, as the newspaper had already achieved a certain international fame under “Suara”, the Indonesian word for “voice”.

In April 2006, the STL received a notice of termination for its premises because the government no longer extended the permission to use the newspaper. The STL had previously reported starvation in remote villages in the country. In addition, there had been tensions between the newspaper and Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri from FRETILIN for years . Alkatiri ordered all government institutions to boycott the newspaper. She should not receive government advertising contracts and statements from officials and government officials. 50 East Timorese journalists signed a petition criticizing the actions against the STL as an unconstitutional violation of the freedom of the press.

In October 2012, reporters Raimundos Oki from Jornal Independente and Oscar Maria Salsinha from Suara Timor Lorosa'e were placed under temporary house arrest under the Defamation Act for publishing a critical report on the trial of a fatal road accident. They accused a public prosecutor in Oe-Cusse Ambeno of taking a bribe. The Dili District Court saw no evidence of defamation in March 2013, but sentenced the two reporters to one year probation and payment of US $ 150 each for "causing mental disorders."

Adérito Hugo da Costa , who later became President of Parliament and founder of the competitor newspaper Timor Post , worked at STL from 1993 to 2007. Likewise from 1993 to 1999 José Maria Ximenes , Director of the Timor Post .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sapo: Prezidente foun hosi parlamentu Timór promete atu halo esforsu hodi aselera ho prosesu lejislativa , May 5, 2016 , accessed on May 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d STL: Profile , July 2012 , accessed on July 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ UNESCO: ASSESSMENT OF MEDIA DEVELOPMENT IN TIMOR-LESTE , 2011 , accessed on May 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ Masters of Terror: Armindo Soares Mariano , accessed November 28, 2018.
  5. ↑ CPJ: Suara Timor LorosaeHARASSED , February 3, 2005 , accessed January 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ Political Parties and groupings of Timor-Leste ( Memento of June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 996 kB)
  7. ↑ James J. Fox, Dionisio Babo-Soares: Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor , 2003. Limited preview in the Google Book search.
  8. ↑ Reporters without borders: Country report 2006 , accessed June 3, 2017.
  9. ↑ Reporters without borders: Country report 2013 , accessed June 4, 2017.
  10. ↑ Reporters without borders: Country report 2014 , accessed June 4, 2017.
  11. ↑ Biography of José Maria Ximenes on the advertising page of the Press Council (tetum) , accessed on June 9, 2017.