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- CENTENAS CONTRA O FIM DO FÓRUM MACAU
- HERCULES’ VISIT TO EAST TIMOR PROMPTS CALL FOR HIS ARREST
- HERCULES – PROTEST ORGANIZER FOR HIRE IN JAKARTA
- DELIVERING SOLUTIONS TO DIFFICULT DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES
- FIVE-YEAR PRISION TERM DEMANDED FOR BUSINESS TYCON HARTATI
- PU ANNOUNCES POLITICAL PARTIE’S NUMBERS
- MP timorense está a investigar alegadas irregularidades no Ministério das Finanças
- TIMOR LOROSAE NAÇÃO READQUIRE ATIVIDADE REGULAR
- Parlamento de Timor-Leste compra viaturas e computadores para os deputados
- TAFUI OIL LEVA GOVERNO TIMORENSE AO TRIBUNAL
Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:14 PM PST
Pereira
Coutinho fala de 300 pessoas, a TDM diz que não foram além das 150. O
mote do protesto de ontem, em frente à TDM, foi o cancelamento do
programa televisivo Fórum Macau. Os manifestantes acusam o Governo de
ter cancelado a emissão.
Inês Santinhos Gonçalves – Ponto Final
A
TDM voltou ontem a ser alvo de um protesto contra atentados à liberdade
de expressão. Mais de uma centena de pessoas concentraram-se junto à
sede da televisão para se manifestarem contra o cancelamento do programa
Fórum Macau.
O
protesto foi organizado pela Associação Novo Macau (ANM) mas contou com
a participação de vários grupos, entre eles a Associação dos
Trabalhadores da Função Pública (ATFPM), que, segundo Pereira Coutinho,
foi a que levou mais pessoas à rua, cerca de 200. No total, estima, três
centenas de pessoas estiveram reunidas na Rua Francisco Xavier Pereira.
O responsável pela divisão de programas da TDM, Andy Ho, diz não terem
sido mais de 150: “Não estive a contar, mas diria que eram entre 100 a
150 pessoas”.
O
protesto faz parte de uma série de iniciativas da ANM em apoio aos
jornalistas do semanário de Cantão, alvo de censura por parte do Governo
Central. A associação quis aproveitar o acontecimento para promover a
discussão sobre a liberdade de expressão em Macau, numa altura em que o
popular programa televisivo foi extinto. Pereira Coutinho fez eco das
preocupações dos pró-democratas sobre a alegada interferência do Governo
no cancelamento do programa e foi, até mais longe: “Sabemos agora, por
informações seguras, que um assessor do Chefe do Executivo deu
instruções ao departamento de informação da TDM para cancelar o
programa”.
Andy
Ho rejeita que tal instrução tenha sido dada e justifica a suspensão do
programa com dificuldades ao nível dos recursos humanos. “Respeitamos
os protestos, as opiniões e os comentários. [Mas] por agora estamos a
concentrar os nossos esforços noutros programas”, justificou.
Para
Pereira Coutinho esta é uma “desculpa esfarrapada”. “O orçamento da TDM
está a atingir os 200 milhões de patacas por ano. Os funcionários da
TDM de cargos mais elevados tiveram todos aumentos salariais. O
presidente da TDM, Leong Kam Chun, tem um vencimento de mais de 100 mil
patacas. A TDM tem muito dinheiro”, acusa.
Para
o presidente da ATFPM, o cancelamento do Fórum Macau é “uma machadada
na liberdade de expressão, na transparência governativa e nos direitos
dos cidadãos de serem informados e darem as suas opiniões”.
Coutinho
acredita que o programa estava a crescer em popularidade,
aproximando-se já do programa de rádio, com o mesmo nome. Há, aliás,
receio de que o programa de rádio venha também a sofrer alterações,
depois de, em Março do ano passado, dois dos apresentadores terem
abandonado o programa.
“Estamos
preocupados. A qualidade da rádio está a deteriorar-se após o
despedimento de dois comentadores políticos de relevo, com vasta
experiência profissional e social”, aponta Coutinho, chamando ainda a
atenção para a diminuição do espaço para os telefonemas da população,
cada vez mais ocupado por publicidade.
Andy
Ho assegura que não haverá mais mudanças no Fórum Macau da rádio:
“Depois de mudarmos os dois apresentadores, temos um programa mais
diversificado, há mais gente a participar. Não acho que vá sofrer mais
alterações”.
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:22 AM PST
Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Jakarta Globe - January 14, 2013
East
Timor Armed Forces Chief Maj. Gen. Lere Anan Timur has threatened to
arrest former gang leader and Timorese Indonesian Rozario Marshal
“Hercules” should he enter the country again.
The
threat, reported in East Timor news outlets last week, came after
Hercules visited Dili, a move Anan Timur interpreted as an attempt to
stir up old conflicts. The visit came just weeks after the UN ended its
13-year peace-keeping mission in the country on Dec. 31 last year.
Politicians in Jakarta have reacted angrily to the threat, claiming that Hercules had done nothing wrong.
“How
could he say something like that? You can’t just arrest someone if he
hasn’t committed a crime,” said Tubagus Hasanuddin, a legislator from
the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).
Anan
Timur allegedly accused Hercules of trying to incite a riot among Dili
residents, saying his presence there symbolized a wish to reclaim land
formerly owned by Timorese who fled to Indonesia after an independence
referendum in 1999.
The general said that all Timorese that left East Timor had no more rights to land in the country.
“We
are now an independent country. We can’t let anybody come to our
country and interfere just like that,” he was reported as saying.
Mecho Joao, a lawyer for Hercules, said there was no reason for Anan Timur to get angry, let alone threaten an arrest.
“The
accusation against Hercules has been wrongly addressed. Anan Timur’s
anger stemmed from the fact that Hercules is now an Indonesian and he’s
coming from the western part of East Timor,” he said.
Some
in the eastern part of East Timor have accused the westerners living
along the border with Indonesia of being traitors for collaborating with
the Indonesian Military during the fight for independence.
There
are fears that the visit by Hercules, a notorious ex-gang leader who is
now a member of Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), could
strengthen pro-Jakarta sentiment following the UN’s exit, and reviving
tensions between easterners and westerners, some of whom have called for
reintegration with Indonesia.
Hercules
has close ties to presidential aspirant Prabowo Subianto, a former
commander of the Army’s Special Forces (Kopassus) during the occupation
of East Timor. Hercules was recruited into Kopassus to fight alongside
the Indonesians in his native East Timor during that time.
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:18 AM PST
Zubaidah Nazeer - Straits Times | January 02, 2013 - Jakarta Globe
Jakarta. If you need an organized demonstration in the streets of Jakarta, call Hercules.
At
the protest that turned violent just last month in front of Indonesia's
Parliament, he was seen in the thick of action — shepherding the
crowds, yelling instructions and eventually dispersing them once police
fired tear gas and water cannon.
Hercules
Rozario Marshal, a former "preman" or gang leader, now organizes
demonstrations for a fee. He also leads a movement that some fear has
the makings of a paramilitary outfit.
Though
he appeared like a true commander at the rally, up close, the man — who
was named after the Greek mythological warrior by his Timorese parents
and by which he is popularly known in Indonesia - seems a misnomer.
A
fake eyeball rests in the right eye socket of this lanky man, while his
right hand and lower arm are covered in a glove stretching past his
elbow and tucked underneath his short shirtsleeve, crippled in an
incident.
These
physical shortcomings have not stopped him. Hercules pulled off a
massive, crippling demonstration by regional officials clamoring for
better benefits last month. He leads a movement aimed at mobilizing
support for presidential aspirant Prabowo Subianto.
The
name linked with the underworld resurfaced after Hercules, who had
repented his crimes several years before, threw his support in last
September's Jakarta governor election behind the now-elected team of
Joko Widodo and his deputy Basuki Tjahaja Purnama that Prabowo and his
Gerindra party backed.
Indeed,
men like Hercules are proving useful for some demonstrators who hire
him or others to whip up support and rally crowds for mass
demonstrations. Interestingly, police also use him to help manage crowds
or gather information from notorious areas.
In
the recent demonstration, he was hired by protesters pushing for a bill
to upgrade the status of village officials to civil servants and obtain
better pay. His civil society organization, Gerakan Rakyat Indonesia
Baru (GRIB), or New Indonesia People's Movement, rallied 40,000
protesters, of whom 5,000 managed to force their way into Parliament.
But he was also instrumental in dispersing the crowds.
He
arrived in Jakarta from Timor Leste in the 1980s and quickly found his
niche running a lucrative debt-collection trade and commanding a gang
that raided illegal gambling dens to claim "security fees," clashing
with rival gangs in turf wars in the process.
"Clashes
are frequent and bloody. The next morning, it's common to see dead
bodies lying on the road or in the canals," the 50-year-old tells The
Straits Times.
"Police
don't interfere with us because they know we are not targeting them,"
says the Timorese who was recruited into the Indonesian army's special
forces (Kopassus) to fight with the Indonesians in the civil war in his
native Timor Leste while it was ongoing there.
Though
Jakartans know him as a gang leader of Tanah Abang in the heart of the
city, Hercules says he is now focused on training GRIB members to help
provide welfare to the needy. GRIB was officially launched in May last
year.
"I
formed GRIB to fight for the poor who are not treated justly. The rich
can get away because of political connections or by paying themselves
out. No one is helping the underdogs," he claims.
Members wear army fatigues and red berets. They claim to number six million nationwide with 17,000 in Jakarta.
Some
observers are concerned about his links to Prabowo, a former general
accused of human rights violations during the Timor Leste civil war.
"The
connection between Prabowo and Hercules that began when Prabowo was on
duty in Timor Leste as Kopassus special commander looks like it will be
revived and will conquer Jakarta if Jokowi is chosen," wrote news portal
kompas.com columnist Arafat Rahman before the capital's governor
election last September which was won by Joko, also known as Jokowi.
Hercules' civil society organization is among many in the city whose activities blur the line between activism and thuggery.
They control certain areas and collect "security fees" from vendors or businesses there in return for protection.
Gangs
are still rife in Jakarta. Police statistics recorded 210 cases
involving thugs between January and September last year, including
extortions, trespassing, land annexation and murder.
But
Hercules, a father of four, insists he has abandoned his dark past. He
built a Catholic primary school and is distributing rice to 11
orphanages monthly. He also runs a fishery and vessel-leasing business
which hires 200 people.
"Figures
like Hercules and his GRIB can be beneficial for police as they have
wide connections, including with the elite. Police do work with them,
but they have to make sure they are in control," says Neta S. Pane of
Indonesia Police Watch.
However, he does not think that groups with well-known political links will be emboldened to provoke aggression now.
"Everyone
knows they are supporting Prabowo, a presidential aspirant, so it is in
their interest to be on good behavior. Police should use the time now
to rein them in."
Reprinted courtesy of The Straits Times
Foto:
Hercules, wearing the uniform of his civil society organization GRIB,
leads a group aimed at mobilizing support for presidential aspirant
Prabowo Subianto. (ST Photo/Photo courtesy of Gerakan Rakyat Indonesia
Baru).
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:07 AM PST
Scoop News - Monday, 14 January 2013, 4:15 pm - Press Release: World Bank
NEWS
RELEASE - Delivering Solutions To Difficult Development Challenges Is
What The World Bank Does Best, Says The Pacific Region’s New Country
Director
Sydney,
January 14, 2013 — The new World Bank Country Director for the Pacific
Islands, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste, Franz Drees-Gross, says the
organization will focus on effectively delivering a growing number of
projects in the region, to help governments find solutions to common
challenges like disaster preparedness and response, connectivity and
poverty reduction.
“The
World Bank’s strength is delivering solutions that help governments
address difficult development challenges,” Mr Drees-Gross said. “Pacific
island countries are some of the most vulnerable in the world to
climate change and natural disasters. These are a common challenge but
we must also look to build on growing opportunities, from expanded
telecoms and airports, to better managed fisheries.”
He
said the launch of the Tonga broadband cable later this year will be a
vital step to connecting people in the Pacific, across islands and
countries, and to the world.
Mr
Drees-Gross is a German and United States national with more than 15
years’ experience at the World Bank, including operational experience in
Asia, South America and Africa.
Most
recently he was the Sustainable Development Manager for Indonesia,
based in Jakarta, from where he oversaw an annual lending program of
about $1.5 billion. This included a large rural and urban,
community-driven development program, infrastructure investments in
power, drainage and roads, the final stages of the reconstruction effort
after the 2004 Aceh Tsunami and a program to protect Indonesia’s coral
reefs.
He
holds Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Management from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Mr Drees-Gross will reside
in Sydney with his wife and two daughters.
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013 10:02 AM PST
Rabby Pramudatama, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Mon, January 14 2013, 1:22 PM
Prosecutors
have demanded the Jakarta Corruption Court sentence defendant Hartati
Murdaya, a business tycoon, to five years in prison for bribery.
“We
ask the panel of judges to declare the defendant [Hartati] guilty of
violating Article 5 of the Corruption Law,” leading prosecutor Edy
Hartoyo read out the sentence demand before the Jakarta Corruption Court
on Monday.
Hartati
has been charged under Article 5 on bribery, which carries a maximum
five-year prison term, and Article 13 on gratuities, which carries a
maximum three-year jail term.
Prosecutors have also demanded that Hartati be fined Rp 250 million (US$25,947).
Hartati
is accused of paying a Rp 3 billion (US310,650) bribe to former Buol
regent Amran Batalipu to expedite the business permit issuance for her
oil palm plantation company PT Hartati Inti Plantation.
The
Corruption Eradication Commission has named three other suspects in the
case, namely Amran and Hartati’s aides Gondo Sudjono and Yani Ansori.
Amran is also standing trial in similar case in which prosecutors have demanded a 12-year prison term.(iwa)
Foto: Siti Hartati Murdaya: (Antara/Rosa Panggabean)
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013 09:58 AM PST
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Mon, January 14 2013, 5:31 PM
The
General Elections Commission (KPU) announced on Monday in Jakarta the
numbers that would be used by political parties in the 2014 legislative
election.
Tempo.co
reported that the leaders of the 10 parties that had passed the factual
verification stage -- including Aburizal Bakrie of the Golkar Party,
Patrice Rio Capella of the newly formed National Democrat Party
(NasDem), Wiranto of the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), Anas
Urbaningrum of the Democratic Party, Hatta Rajasa of the National
Mandate Party (PAN) and Luthfi Hasan Ishaq of the Prosperous Justice
Party (PKS) -- attended the numbers draw.
Below is the list of the results:
Number 1: National Democrat Party (NasDem)
Number2: National Awakening Party (PKB)
Number 3: Prosperous Justice Party (PKS)
Number 4: Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P)
Number 5: Golkar Party
Number 6: Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra)
Number 7: Democratic Party
Number 8: National Mandate Party (PAN)
Number 9: United Development Party (PPP)
Number 10: People's Conscience Party (Hanura)
Among
the ten parties, only one new party, namely NasDem, passed the factual
verification stage and is eligible to run for the upcoming legislative
election in April 2014. (cor)
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013 06:31 AM PST
Díli,
14 jan (Lusa) - O Ministério Público de Timor-Leste está a investigar
alegadas irregularidades em procedimentos para concursos públicos, que
podem vir a envolver o Ministério das Finanças, disse hoje fonte
judicial.
"O
processo está numa fase inicial e a investigação é uma consequência de
uma série de denúncias feitas publicamente em relação a concursos
públicos", afirmou a fonte.
Questionada
sobre o alegado envolvimento nas suspeitas de irregularidades da
ministra das Finanças timorense, Emília Pires, como está a ser veiculado
pela imprensa local, a fonte explicou que não é a ministra que está a
ser investigada, mas sim os processos relativos a concursos públicos, um
dos quais de fornecimento de materiais ao Hospital Nacional Guido
Valadares, ganho pelo marido da ministra.
"Há
suspeitas que é preciso investigar, porque se trata de dinheiros
públicos e poderá haver alguma falta de transparência", disse a fonte,
sublinhando que o processo está na fase inicial.
A
imprensa timorense tem noticiado que Emília Pires está a ser
investigada pelo Ministério Público por causa de um concurso de
fornecimento de materiais ao Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares, no qual o
seu marido terá alegadamente sido favorecido.
Em
declarações à imprensa, na sexta-feira, a ministra afirmou que está
disposta a ir responder a tribunal caso sejam provadas as alegadas
irregularidades.
A ministra das Finanças timorense é independente e ocupa o cargo desde 2007.
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013 04:56 AM PST
O REGRESSO
Durante
um longo período o blogue Timor Lorosae Nação esteve inativo ou até com
atividade irregular. Esteve à beira da extinção por dificuldades de
disponibilidade de alguns dos seus mentores.
Atualmente
essas dificuldades foram superadas e por tal o coletivo da Fábrica dos
Blogues considerou tomar a decisão de reativar a publicação com a
garantia de proceder a atualizações diárias por compromisso com os
leitores e amigos que em tempos faziam do TLN a sua leitura de
referência sobre Timor-Leste, a região do sudeste asiático e Austrália.
Aqui se privilegiará temas relacionados com a lusofonia no que concerne
ao relacionado com Timor-Leste e regiões limítrofes.
Com
a responsabilidade e supervisão de Beatriz Gamboa e a
colaboração possível de António Veríssimo, incluindo mais dois ou três
dos antigos elementos da equipa da Fábrica dos Blogues, julgamos poder
garantir aos leitores o regresso do TLN com atualizações regulares e
diárias que venham a contribuir para melhor divulgação e conhecimento
sobre a região e o país que foi berço ou morada temporária de alguns dos
elementos que integram o coletivo que produz e administra o TLN.
Desejamos ser bem-vindos e merecer esse sentimento.
*Reposição de texto
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:51 AM PST
MSE – PJA - Lusa
Díli,
14 jan (Lusa) - O parlamento de Timor-Leste entregou hoje 60 novas
viaturas e computadores aos deputados do país destinados a fiscalizar a
execução do orçamento nos distritos e a contactos com os eleitores.
"O
Parlamento Nacional comprou estes carros para os senhores deputados
exercerem condignamente as suas funções. Desde funções de representação,
fiscalização da execução orçamental nos distritos do país e para o
contacto com o eleitor", afirmou o presidente do parlamento, Vicente
Guterres.
Segundo
Vicente Guterres, o parlamento adquiriu igualmente 60 computadores, com
'software' em português, para distribuir aos deputados.
O parlamento de Timor-Leste é composto por 65 deputados, que representam quatro formações partidárias.
Nas
legislativas de julho de 2012, o Conselho Nacional da Reconstrução de
Timor-Leste do atual primeiro-ministro Xanana Gusmão elegeu 30
deputados.
A
Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independente (Fretilin), do antigo
chefe de governo Mari Alkatiri, é a segunda maior força no parlamento,
com 25 deputados.
O
Partido Democrático (PD), do atual vice-primeiro-ministro Fernando La
Sama de Araújo, tem oito deputados e a Frente Mudança, do ministro dos
Negócios Estrangeiros, José Luís Guterres, conta com dois deputados.
Dos 65 deputados, seis fazem parte da mesa da Assembleia e já tinham viaturas cedidas pelo Estado.
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Posted: 14 Jan 2013 01:47 AM PST
A
companhia da Pertamina “Tafui Oil” levou o Governo ao Tribunal, por
falta de pagamento, do fornecimento de combustível aos carros do Estado.
De
acordo com a ministra das Finanças, Emília Pires a companhia “Tafui
Oil” teve o mesmo problema que a Conocophilips. O Governo ao fazer uma
auditoria descobriu que os recibos enviados pela "Tafui Oil" não eram
suficientes para justificar o pagamento.
“Bloqueámos
o processo de pagamento, porque os recibos que nós recebemos não eram
suficientes”, explicou a ministra das Finanças.
Emília
Pires vai reanalisar todo o despacho, uma vez que é um processo antigo.
Até à data foi efectuado um pagamento de quase 14 mil dólares.
No
julgamento no passado dia 4 de Janeiro, o Tribunal Distrital de Díli
ouviu as declarações das testamunhas sobre o caso do “Tafui Oil”, que
segundo eles o Governo Timor-Leste ainda não pagou a referida companhia
com montante de $1.772.88.00.
Foi dado um prazo de oito dias para o Governo pagar o montante referido, mas o mesmo não cumpriu.
Os
juízes que presidiram o julgamento naquele dia foram Duarte Tilman,
Antoninho do Carmo, acompanhado pelo juiz internacional, Paulo Teixeira.
O autor tem assistência legal do José Landim e Francisco Nicolau como sua defesa.
A
companhia “Tafui Oil” forneceu a gasolina a EDTL a partir do ano 2007 e
teve reconhecimento da parte do Primeiro ministro, Kay Rala Xanana
Gusmão no dia 13 de Abril de 2009.
O caso foi registado com número de processo 06/Civil/208/TDD.
SAPO TL com Suara Timor Lorosa’e
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