The rapid growth of computer networking is a good match with the
renewed activity, information-sharing and internationalism of the East
Timor support movement. There are a number of resources available
over the Internet, and more are being added all the time. Please let
us know of any additions or corrections.
The first three lists (alerts, reg.easttimor, and Estafeta) are
maintained manually. For access, contact John M. Miller
(etan-outreach@igc.apc.org) or Charles Scheiner (etan-us@igc.apc.org).
ETAN/US also maintains a postal mailing list (for the newsletter and
other mailings), a fax list for alerts, and a phone list. Even if you
only wish to receive electronic material, we would appreciate having
your postal mailing address, phone and fax numbers.
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Alert list
East Timor Action Network/US has a electronic mailing list for action
alerts. These alerts deal with lobbying the US government, severe
human rights violations and the like. Items are sent as needed, and
postings average 1 per month.
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reg.easttimor / east-timor
Reg.easttimor is a conference (newsgroup) which originates from the
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) member networks
(PeaceNet, GreenNet, Pegasus, etc.). Reg.easttimor contains postings
from a wide range of sources, including the National Council of
Maubere Resistance (CNRM), ETAN/US, TAPOL, and support groups in
Australia, Portugal, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, England, Ireland,
the Philippines, Indonesia New Zealand and elsewhere. Reports and
translations from wire services and the Indonesian, Portuguese,
Australian, British, U.S. and Irish press also regularly appear
there, as well as official documents and statements from the U.N.,
national governments, and other sources. Postings average 6-10 per
day, although the frequency varies with the pace of East Timor-related
events. This conference is available by email with read/write access
to any Internet address; write etan-outreach@igc.apc.org or
etan-us@igc.apc.org if you are interested.
Reg.easttimor has recently been converted to a majordomo server
called east-timor@igc.apc.org. You still need to write to
etan-outreach@igc.apc.org to be added to the list.
If you join PeaceNet or one of its sister networks you will have
easier access to the conference, including past material. For
information about PeaceNet, a non-profit progressive networking
service run by the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) in San
Francisco, send a message to peacenet-info@igc.apc.org.
Weekly summaries of reg.et are on ETAN's gopher at:
gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:70/11/peace/timor.gopher/summaries
and on the web at: http://shell.ihug.co.nz/~calliope/Nettalk.html
Virtually all reg.easttimor items, slightly delayed, are
readable at the University of Lisbon WWW site:
http://amadeus.inesc.pt:80/~jota/Timor/
A sortable index to reg.easttimor, with links to the items, is at:
http://www.uc.pt/~timorndx
Postings since September 1996 are readable at:
http://www.handrade.pt/timor/ml.htm
An abridged, read-only version of Reg.easttimor, with an average of
two daily postings, is on APC as the conference tapol.etimor. This is
also available as e-mail; to receive it, send a note to maggie@web.net.
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Other Indonesia-related lists.
The APC also has conferences reg.indonesia and reg.westpapua. The
latter is available by email; write cscheiner@igc.apc.org to receive it.
A new list, indonesia-act, is designed for action-oriented
information on Indonesian democracy issues, and is primarily in
English. For information on this majordomo-served self-service list
(which is an echo of the APC conference act.indonesia), send a
message to majordomo@igc.apc.org with the body of the message
containing:
info indonesia-act
To subscribe to the list, write majordomo@igc.apc.org with the text:
subscribe indonesia-act
in the contents of the message.
Reg.indonesia, tapol.etimor, reg.westpapua, and reg.easttimor can each
be queried by email for the index and past postings. To get the
conference index, send email to:
almanac@gn.apc.org (with anything you
like in the subject line) and a body like:
send index
e.g.:
send tapol.etimor index
send reg.westpapua index
These indexes -- which contain one line per posting with the topic
title, data, and poster's name -- can be long; some of these
conferences have over 500 items in them.
After receiving the index, you can retrieve a particular topic (or
topics) with another message to almanac@gn.apc.org
with a body like:
send
e.g.:
send tapol.etimor 608
send reg.westpapua 3
You can send more than one query per message, just put each one on a
separate line. The topics will come back by email, one email per
query. It will be broken into smallish chunks, mostly to accommodate
people at the far ends of FIDO-style point software.
Topic numbers change every few days, so use the index soon after you
get it, and don't refer to topics by number in any postings.
There is also a new, very active, newsgroup on Indonesia-related materials
from the world press in both English and Bahasa Indonesia. It is an
electronic version of the Kabar dari PIJAR Jaringan Informasi Reformasi
newsletter. To subscribe, write to majordomo@igc.apc.org with:
subscribe kdp-net
in the body of your message. Writing to the same address with:
info kdp-net
will get you more information about their service.
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Estafeta
ETAN/US prepares an electronic version of its newsletter, Estafeta,
which averages eight printed pages. Many prefer the paper
version of the newsletter to e-mailed one.
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Gopher
ETAN maintains background information, including weekly summaries of
reg.easttimor, in the Institute for Global Communications Gopher. To
access the East Timor information go to IGC's public gopher. Type
'gopher gopher.igc.apc.org' and look under the "Peace, Human Rights
and Social Justice." The URL for this gopher is:
gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:70/11/peace/timor.gopher
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World-Wide Web
East Timor information in English is on the World-Wide Web from the
University of Lisbon at:
http://amadeus.inesc.pt/~jota/Timor/
This includes background and current information, and links to many
other systems including the IGC Gopher.
Other well-maintained East Timor pages include:
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Other Resources
Some great posters about East Timor are at
http://www.peg.apc.org/~saskia
The transcript of a 12/96 public meeting on East Timor in NYC with
Noam Chomsky, Constancio Pinto, Allan Nairn and others is at:
http://www.worldmedia.com/archive/talks/9512-timor-etan.html
Audio from a speech Chomsky gave at MIT in April 1995 is at:
http://www.worldmedia.com/archive/audio/9511timor.html
Reports from the Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor in Malaysia
are at:
http://www.gv.net.my/apcet/
A good "course" on East Timor with cultural and historical reference
materials is at: http://www.uc.pt/Timor/TimorNet.html
The Canadian Forces College includes East Timor on:
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/wars/timor.html
Peace Action's site about the impending sale of US F-16 warplanes to
Indonesia is at:
http://www.webcom.com/peaceact/f16.html
A record of all UN General Assembly votes on East Timor is at:
http://cygnus.ci.uc.pt/~cdpm/votac_e.htm
Amnesty International's Indonesia & East Timor material is available
through:
http://www.amnesty.org/
with background material on their 1994-5 campaign in:
ftp://ftp.io.org/pub/human-rights/Amnesty/indonesia/
Many reference human rights documents and links are at:
http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/
To hear some music about East Timor, try:
http://www.web.apc.org/~hands
If you want to see what the Indonesia government has to say, try:
http://www.prica.org/east_timor/ (Embassy in Ottawa) or
http://www.dfa-deplu.go.id/ (Foreign Ministry in Jakarta)
Some very informative web sites on West Papua are at:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cline/papua
http://www.twics.com/~boyjah/westpapua/welcome.html
http://www.moles.org/motherlode/freeport/freeport.html
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Usenet
The Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.portuguese includes information on
East Timor in both Portuguese and English. The soc.culture.indonesia
discussion of East Timor is mostly flaming debates, with little
substantive English-language material not available elsewhere.
Misc.activism.progressive and soc.rights.human also contain materials.
Several mailing lists, including SEASIA-L@MSU.EDU
(bit.listserv.seasia-l as a newsgroup) and INDONESIA-L (a private list
mediated by apakabar@clark.net), also contain materials, but have
little on East Timor in English that does not appear in reg.easttimor.
INDONESIA-L does have a lot of material in Bahasa Indonesia.
INDONESIA-L is available on the Web at:
http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/indonesia/news/
There is a summary of INDONESIA-L (it also includes some
additional material taken directly from reg.easttimor) at:
gopher://oasis.leidenuniv.nl/11/.kitlv/.daily-report
This resource list was updated in April '97. For the latest version, send a blank email message to timor-info@igc.apc.org.
ETAN also has a (paper) information packet about East Timor and what
you can do. If you would like a copy, send us your postal mailing
address.
