Timor-Leste Research@RMIT

Select Resources on Timor-Leste

The following is a very brief list of maps, websites and books that provide good introductions to different aspects of Timor-Leste's geography, history and contemporary society. There is an enormous variety of material available on Timor-Leste, so these resources provide possible starting points.

Maps of Timor-Leste

• Regions of Timor-Leste, Department of Public Information, Cartographic Section, Map No. 4117 Rev. 4, United Nations, Dili, 2002.
• East Timor, Department of Public Information, Geographic Section,  Map. No. 4111, United Nations, Dili, 1999.
• Timor-Leste Atlas Map, Field Information and Coordination Support Section, Division of Operational Services,  UNHCR, Dili, 2006.
• Districts of Timor-Leste, MTRC Information Centre,  RDTL, Dili, 2006.

• Timor-Leste Studies Association
• The East Timor and Indonesian Action Network (ETAN)
• Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor
• Timor Archives: Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor Inc. (CHART Project)
• East Timor: An Introduction to the History, Politics and Culture of Southeast Asia's Youngest Nation
• Judicial System Monitoring Programme
• United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) and the United Nations agencies in Timor-Leste
• The Alola Foundation
• East Timor Women Australia

Books

• Cristalis, Irena, Bitter Dawn: East Timor, A People's Story, Zed Books, London, New York, 2002.
• Dunn, James, East Timor: A Rough Passage to Independence, Longueville Books, Sydney, 2003.
• Greenless, Don and Robert Garran, Deliverance: The Inside Story of East Timor's Fight for Freedom, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2002.
• Gunn, Geoffrey, Timor Loro Sae: 500 Years, Livros do Oriente, Hong Kong, 1999.
• Joliffe, Jill, East Timor: Nationalism and colonialism, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1978.
• McDonald, Hamish (et al), Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor in 1999, Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 145, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 2002.
• Nicol, Bill, Timor: A nation reborn, Equinox Publishing, Jakarta, 2002.
• Smythe, Patrick A., The Heaviest Blow-The Catholic Church and the East Timor Issue, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, 2004.
• Tanter, Richard, Mark Selden and Stephen Shalom (eds), Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers, Pluto Press, Sydney, 2001.
• Taylor, John G., Indonesia's Forgotten War: The hidden history of East Timor, Zed, London, 1991.