Masyarakat Timor Leste sudah kena kibul PBB, dikira dengan merdeka bisa 
menjadi negara mapan, alih alih menjadi negara mapan, malah bikin pusing 
negara pendukungnya.
Bila kemerdekaan diraih dengan cara curang maka hasil akhir akan lebih 
hancur.

Aku termasuk WNI yg bila diberikan wewenang jauh ke  depan, Timor Leste akan 
aku hilangkan dari peta, dan akan dijadikan sebagai kabupaten thok, tidak 
lagi propinsi, apalagi negara terlalu goblok masyarakatnya dalam memahami 
apa itu bermasyarakat di negara, dan gobloknya memang dipiara sejak dulu 
oleh para uskup sialan.

Masyarakat Timor leste menjadi tambah berantakan dan tanggung jawabnya ada 
di si uskup sialan belo, dia yg bikin masyarakat Timor menjadi pemabokan, 
dan PBB jug harus bertanggung jawab.
karena membela pemilu curang.

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***One of the common problems, he said, is that unemployed youths are stuck 
in a cycle of alcohol and violence. In Timor-Leste,unemployment among young 
people is estimated at over 40 percent, and approximately 16,000 young 
people enter the labour market each year. The problem is expected to grow, 
with 41 percent of the population under 15 years old, according to 
government data.

***Hari depan NKRI makin cerah, PBB perlu membantu Timor Leste kembali ke 
pangkuan NKRI...

TIMOR-LESTE: Alcohol-fuelled violence a growing concern

DILI, 1 August 2012 (IRIN) - National police and NGOs in Timor-Leste have 
noted an uptick in alcohol-fuelled violence, especially among unemployed 
youths.

Vidal Campos Magno, now 29, grew up surrounded by conflict, was a teenager 
during the final years of the Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste, and then 
went through the turmoil that followed the 1999 referendum for independence.

“I was involved in the fighting. I remember hanging around with friends, 
then we’d plan to go and hurt this person or that person. We had to fight 
because of the political situation.”

It wasn’t until he was accepted into university that Magno decided to change 
what he calls his “bad behaviour”. Now a project coordinator at Ba Futuru, a 
local peace-building organization, he draws on his experiences to help young 
people, including former gang members and ex-prisoners.

One of the common problems, he said, is that unemployed youths are stuck in 
a cycle of alcohol and violence. In Timor-Leste,unemployment among young 
people is estimated at over 40 percent, and approximately 16,000 young 
people enter the labour market each year. The problem is expected to grow, 
with 41 percent of the population under 15 years old, according to 
government data.

“There’s a lot of youth unemployment and sometimes young people hang around 
and drink alcohol, then go to the main road to fight each other or throw 
rocks at cars. This is their reality,” said Magno.

An analysis of drug and alcohol issues in the Pacific by the Australian 
National Council on Drugs in 2008-2009 concluded that “alcohol is still a 
substance of concern” in Timor-Leste, but noted a lack of official data.

The most recent national data reported to the World Health Organization 
(WHO) was in 2006, before a political crisis displaced more than 100,000 
people, a tense and violent presidential poll in 2007, and a presidential 
assassination attempt in February 2008.

There are no government-funded rehabilitation facilities for people addicted 
to drugs or alcohol, but Pradet, a national mental health NGO, was one of 
the first groups to provide treatment. It has offered community awareness 
workshops to prisoners, police and community leaders since 2009, funded by 
AusAID.

Pradet director Manuel dos Santos told IRIN drug use was still a relatively 
small problem, but there are fears that it could increase. “Our border does 
not have a secure system for controlling drugs, so people are consuming more 
and more, but there’s no specific research to find out how much.”

The regional office of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Bangkok, 
Thailand, which oversees Timor-Leste, has no record of drug use or seizure 
trends in the country.

A December 2010 policy brief by a national conflict-monitoring NGO, Belun, 
found a “worrying degree of drug use”, including the consumption of 
sabu-sabu, an illegally manufactured amphetamine, and korneta, a plant that 
creates a feeling of euphoria.

Dangers unknown

Dos Santos said most people in Timor-Leste are unaware that over-consumption 
of alcohol is harmful. “Many who participate in the training are surprised 
when they find out about the negative impacts of alcohol. Before they 
receive the information, they say they used to keep drinking until they fell 
asleep.”

He said workshop participants had recommended creating defined places to 
sell alcohol, introducing a law restricting children from buying alcoholic 
drinks, and increasing the tax to make such drinks more expensive.

There are no regulations for the alcohol content in drinks, and no age 
restrictions on purchasing them. The popular local palm wine (tua mutin) and 
palm brandy (tua sabu) are both sold in recycled plastic bottles along the 
roadsides.

In Timor-Leste, drinking alcohol is part of tradition so if you sit down 
with two or three people, they feel they must drink.

“In Timor-Leste, drinking alcohol is part of our tradition, so if you sit 
down with two or three people, they feel they must drink. But sometimes it 
causes accidents and sometimes it causes fights,” said Domingos Maia, the 
drug and alcohol trainer of the National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL).

Domestic violence

The police link alcohol to domestic violence. “Often we see fathers and 
husbands fighting with their families after drinking too much alcohol,” Maia 
said.

The most recent demographic survey by the Ministry of Health, in 2010, did 
not track alcohol or drug consumption, but found alcohol was a significant 
factor in domestic violence. Of the women who experienced domestic violence, 
60 percent said their husbands “get drunk very often”, compared to 26 
percent who said their husbands did not drink alcohol at all.

In 2009, Belun started tracking alcohol-related violence through an Early 
Warning Early Response Monitoring System, set up with the assistance of 
Columbia University, New York, after noting a rise in alcohol-fuelled 
violence.

Constantino Escollano Brandao, a research and policy specialist at Belun, 
said alcohol is often a catalyst for violence caused by underlying problems. 
“For young people [this] could be the stress of finding a job, social 
jealousy, or not being able to afford to stay in school.”

In the eastern district of Ermera, known for its celebration of the annual 
coffee harvest in July, drunkenness and causing trouble while drunk have 
been banned since February 2012, under a traditional form of law and order 
known as Tara-bandu.

Fines start at US$25. “Since the Tara-bandu there has been a positive change 
because the number of parties has been limited, and the sanctions discourage 
drunken people from causing problems,” Brandao told IRIN.

In the capital, Dili, where alcohol and drugs are readily accessible, youth 
coordinator Magno said the answer is not prohibition or punishment, but 
education.

“Many young people are stuck in a very negative mindset and it’s not easy to 
change their bad behaviour… but to reduce the violence we also have to 
reduce the alcohol.”

mw/pt/he
Theme (s): Children, Conflict, Economy, Health & Nutrition,

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95997/TI ... ng-concern

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