EAST TIMOR

East Timor

East Timor coffee production is small in the global coffee context, producing less than one percent of the international total. Nevertheless, coffee is crucial to the country’s overall economy. It is the most important source of foreign exchange for East Timor and it serves as the primary source of income for about one-fourth of the country’s population, or some 44,000 families.

East Timor Economy

The Indonesian invasion of East Timor began on 7 December 1975 when the Indonesian military invaded East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism. The overthrow of a popular and briefly Fretilin led government sparked a violent quarter-century occupation in which between approximately 100–180,000 East Timorese soldiers and civilians are estimated to have been killed or starved.During the first few years of the war, the Indonesian military faced heavy insurgency resistance in the mountainous interior of the island, but from 1977–1978, the military procured new advanced weaponry from the United States, Australia, and other countries, to destroy Fretilin’s framework.However, the last two decades of the century saw continuous clashes between Indonesian and East Timorese groups over the status of East Timor, until 1999, when the East Timorese voted for independence in a United Nation Mission in East Timor referendum

The invasion

East TimorThe majority of the population of East Timor is Catholic, and the Catholic Church is the

dominant religious institution.There are also small Protestant and Muslim communities

According to a 2005 World Bank report, 98 percent of the population is Catholic, 1 percent Protestant, and less than 1 percent Muslim. Most citizens also retain some vestiges of animistic beliefs and practices, which they have come to regard as more cultural than religious.

East Timor PovertyEast Timor is among the poorest countries in East Asia. Population is 830,000. Percentage of population under the age of 14 Life expectancy is in the range of 57 years. Food insecurity is widespread. Poverty, affecting two in five persons, is predominantly rural, and higher in the West than the East. In 2001, the population felt vastly more empowered compared to Indonesian times, and the majority of the least well-off had higher economic status.

Health

The burden of disease is largely due to communicable diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, respiratory tract infections and childhood infections. One in two people live without safe drinking water and three in five without sanitation facilities. Malnutrition (measured by the proportion of underweight children, based on weight for age) is a serious problem in (Timor Lorosa'e), with over four in ten children under the age of five being moderately or severely malnourished in 2002.Wasting, as measured by weight for height, is used as an indicator of short-term access to adequate food, and is therefore affected by seasonal food availability. Over one in ten children are moderately or severely wasted. Stunting, which is measured by height for age, is an indicator of longer-term nutritional deficiency over multiple seasons. One in two children are moderately or severely stunted. This evidence points to a widespread prevalence of chronic malnutrition.

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