as pointed out by Ramos-Horta (2011), Timor-Leste’s sovereign wealth fund (Timor-Leste Petroleum Fund) is worth US$15.8 billion (MoF, 2019) in a country of around 1.3 million inhabitants, andW9a2.
It's the first of two books on Timor-Leste, this one titled Born of Fire and Ash: Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999-2000. The book covers a critical time.East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, is a country in Asia, situated on the eastern part of Timor, an island in the Indonesian archipelago. The country's territory includes the eastern half of island of Timor, an enclave on West Timor known as Oecusse, and neighboring islands such as Jaco and Atauro. East Timor was known as Portuguese Timor
IOM first began work in Timor-Leste in August 1999. Since then IOM has provided return and reintegration assistance to the approximately 190,000 Timorese people who fled to West Timor (Indonesia) during the 1999 post-referendum violence; contributed to the disarmament and reintegration of ex-Falintil combatants; and undertaken a number of community stabilization and infrastructure programs.
The “post-colonial security dilemma” reflects the need for small, new, weak states to diminish their reliance upon other states by pursuing a concept of absolute external state sovereignty as “real” independence. The tensions between dependence and independence are reflected in Timor-Leste's efforts to secure state sovereignty throughas pointed out by Ramos-Horta (2011), Timor-Leste’s sovereign wealth fund (Timor-Leste Petroleum Fund) is worth US$15.8 billion (MoF, 2019) in a country of around 1.3 million inhabitants, andW9a2.