Glossary of Key Timor-Leste, West
Papua and Indonesia Related Terms,
Acronyms
and Abbreviations
ABRI - Angkatan Bersenjata Republik Indonesi - Indonesian Army and National Police Force. Armed forces of Indonesia, replaced by separated Armed Forces (TNI) and
Police (Polri) in 2000.
adat - customary
ADB - Asian Development Bank
ADF - Australian Defence Force
AFP - Australian Federal Police
APEC - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
APODETI - Associaçäo Popular Democrática Timorense/ The Timorese Popular Democratic Association.
Pro-Indonesia group established in 1974.
ASDT- Associaçäo Social Democrática Timorense/ Association of Timorese Social Democrats. Formed in 1974, this pro-independence party
changed name to FRETILIN
ASEAN - Association of South East Asian
Nations
AusAID - Australian Agency for International Development
BAIS - Badan Intelijen Strategis, Indonesia Strategic Intelligence
Body (later BIN)
BAKIN - Badan Koordinasi Intelijen Negara, Indonesia State Intelligence
Coordinating Agency
BGK - Bloku Governu Koligasaun/Government Coalition Bloc (Timor-Leste)
BIN - Badan Intelijen Negara/ Indonesia State Intelligence Agency
BPA - Banking and Payments Authority (Timor-Leste)
Brimob - Brigade
Mobil Polri/ Mobile Brigade Indonesian National
Police paramilitary force
Bupati - sub-provincial (or district) head (Indonesia)
CAC - Comissão Anti-Corrupção
/ Komisaun Anti-Korrupsaun / Anti-Corruption Commission of Timor-Leste
CAAC - Commission of Ex-Combatant
Affairs/ Comissão para os Assuntos dos Antigos
Combatentes
CAQR - Commission of Former Members of
the Resistance/Comissão para os Assuntos
dos Quadros da Resistencia
CAVF - Commission of Falintil
Veterans Affairs/Commissão para os Assuntos dos
Veteranos das Falintil
CAVR - Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação/Commission for Reception, Truth and
Reconciliation in Timor-Leste
CEDAW - Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination
against Women
CFET - Consolidated Fund for East Timor
CGI - Consultative Group on Indonesia
CivPol - United Nations Civilian Police
CMATS -
The Treaty on
Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea between
Australia and Timor-Leste
CTF - Commission on Truth and Friendship
CNE - Comissão Nacional de
Eleições/ National Election Commission (Timor-Leste)
CNRM (Conselho Nacional de Resistência Maubere) - National Council
of Maubere Resistance. Formed 1987, became CNRT in 1998
CNRT (Conselho
Nacional de Resistência Timorense) - National Congress for Reconstruction of
Timor-Leste (political party);
National Council of Timorese Resistance coalition formed in 1996, uniting UDT,
Fretlin and others on Independence platform. Replaced CNRM in 1998..
Dissolved July 2001.
CPD-RDTL - Conselho Popular pela Defesa da República Democrática de
Timor-Leste/Popular Committee for Defence of the Democratic Republic of
Timor-Leste
CPLP - Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa/Community of
Portuguese Speaking Countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau,
Mozambique, Sao Tome, Timor-Leste)
CSO - civil society organization
DAP - Dewan Adat Papua, Papua Customary/Adat Council (West
Papua)
Demokrat - Partai Demokrat/Democratic Party (Indonesia)
Detachment 88/Densus 88 - Police counter-terrorism
organization, funded and trained by U.S. (Indonesia)
DPD - Dewan Perwakilan Daerah/ Regional Representatives
Council (Indonesia)
DPR - Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat/People’s Representative Council
(Indonesia)
DPRP - Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Papua, Papua provincial
legislature
DFAT - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia
DPKO - United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Dwifungsi - Dual function of Indonesian military (TNI):
military defense and socio-political
EAD - UN Electoral Assistance Division
ETPA - East Timor Public Administration
ETTA - East Timor Transitional Administration
Falintil (Forças Armadas de Libertaçäo) - Armed Forces for the
National Liberation of East Timor; pro-independence guerilla force.
Originally under Fretilin, later the CNRM & CNRT.
FPTL - Timor-Leste Police Service
F-FDTL - Falintil-Forças Armadas de
Defesa de Timor-Leste/ FALINTIL Defense Forces of Timor Leste
Fokupers - Forum Komunikasi Untuk Perempuan Timor Lorosa’e/Timor-Leste
Women’s Communication Forum)
Fongtil - Forum ONG Timor-Leste/NGO Forum in Timor-Leste
FPDK - Forum Persatuan, Demokrasi dan Keadilan/Forum for
Unity, Democracy and Justice. Pro-integration front in East Timor|
FPU - Formed Police Unit (UN)
Fretilin (Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independente) - Revolutionary
Front for an Independent Timor-Leste
GAM - Gerakan Aceh Merdeka/Free Aceh Movement
Gerindra -
Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya/Great
Indonesia Movement Party
GOLKAR - Partai Golongan Karya/Party of Functional Groups, political party created
by Suharto (Indonesia)
Hanura -
Partai Hati Nurani Rakyat/People's
Conscience Party
ICRC - International Committee of the Red
Cross
IDPs - internally displaced persons
IEC -Independent Electoral Commission
ILWP - International Lawyers for West Papua
IMET - International Military Education and Training. U.S.
Pentagon program that brings foreign officers to the U.S.
IMF - International Monetary Fund
InterFET - International Force in East Timor;
United Nations-sponsored, Australian-led force. September 1999 - February 2000.
IOM - International Organisation for Migration
IPWP - International Parliamentarians for West Papua
ISF - International Stabilisation Force (Australia and New
Zealand in Timor-Leste)
JCET- Joint Combined Exchange Training
(U.S.)
JPDA - Joint Petroleum Development Area
Kodam -
Komando Daerah Militer/
Military Regional Command (Indonesia)
KNPB -
Komite Nasional Papua Barat /West Papua National Committee
KOMNAS HAM
- Komisi Nasional Hak Azasi Manusia. National Committee for Human
Rights)
Indonesia
Korem -
Komando Resort Militer/Sub-regional
military command (Indonesia)
KOSTRAD
- Komando Cadangan Strategis Angkatan Darat, Army Strategic Reserve
(Indonesia)
KPK -
Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi/Corruption
Eradication Commission (Indonesia)
Kopassus
-
Komando Pasukan Khusus/Special Forces Command - 'Red Berets", notorious
elite Indonesian
Special Forces Command
LDC - Least developed country
Maubere - From an indigenous Timorese language, the word was used in a derogatory manner to refer to the people of Timor-Leste.
The resistance adopted the word into the proud language of the resistance to mean the people of the resistance.
MCC - Millennium Challenge Corporation (U.S.)
MDG - Millennium Development Goals
Merdeka! - Freedom!
MPR - Majelis Permusyawarahan Rukyat /People’s Consultative
Assembly (Indonesia)
MRP - Majelis Rakyat Papua/Papuan People’s Council
MSG - Melanesia Spearhead Group
MUI - Majelis Ulama Indonesia/Indonesian Ulema
Council
NASDEM - Partai Nasdem (Indonesia)
NGO - non-governmental organization
NKRI - Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia/Unitary State of the
Republic of Indonesia
NTT - (Nusa Tenggara Timur) - Indonesian province
which includes West Timor
NU - Nahdlatul Ulama /Council of Religious Scholars
(Indonesia)
OCHA - UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs
OPM - Organisasi Papua Merdeka/ Free Papua Movement
OPMT - (Organizacao
Popular de Mulher Timor) Popular Organisation of
East Timorese Women
PAN - Partai Amanat Nasional/National Mandate Party
Pancasila - Indonesia's five-point state ideology (Belief in the one
and only God, Just and civilized humanity, The unity of Indonesia,
Democracy guided by the inner wisdom in the unanimity arising out of
deliberations amongst representatives, Social justice for all)
PBB - Partai Bulan Bintang/Crescent
Star Party
(Indonesia)
PDI-P - Partai Demokrasi Indonesia-Perjuangan, Indonesian
Democratic Party of Struggle
PKB - Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa/National
Awakening Party (Indonesia)
PKF - United Nations Peace Keeping Force
PKI - Partai Komunis Indonesia/Communist Party of
Indonesia
PKS - Partai Keadilan Sejahtera/Prosperous Justice Party
(Indonesia)
PNTL - Policia Nacional de Timor-Leste / National Police Service of
Timor-Leste
POLRI - Indonesia Police
PPP - Partai Persatuan Pembangunan/ United Development
Party (Indonesia)
RAAF - Royal
Australian Air Force
RAN - Royal Australian Navy
RDTL - República Democrática de Timor-Leste/Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
(official name of East Timor/Timor-Leste)
REDD - Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest
Degradation
REDE Feto - (REDE
Feto Timor Loro Sae) East Timorese
Women's Network
RENETIL - Resistencia Nacional dos
Estudantes de Timor Leste/National Resistance of
East Timorese Students
RTTL - Radio-Televisão Timor Leste
SCIT - Serious Crimes Investigation Team
SCU - Serious Crimes Unit
SDG - UN
Sustainable Development Goals (replace MDGs)
SRSG - Special Representative of the Secretary General
STAE - Secretariado Tecnico De Administraço
Eleitoral/Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration
(Timor-Leste)
TAPOL - Tahanan politik, political prisoners (also the name of
the Indonesia human rights campaign
based in Britain)
Tetum/Tetun - The primary indigenous language of the East Timorese.
Official language with Portuguese of Timor-Leste
TFET - Trust Fund for East Timor
TSDA -
Timor Sea
Designated Authority
Timor Lorosae - East Timor/ Timor-Leste in Tetun
Timor Timur - or Tim Tim, Indonesian name for East Timor.
TNI
- Tentara Nasional Indonesia, Indonesian National Armed Forces
TNI-AD - Tentara Nasional Indonesia-Angkatan
Darat/Indonesian Army
TNI-AL
-Tentara Nasional Indonesia-Angkatan Laut/Indonesian Navy
TNI AU -
Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Udara/Indonesian
Air Force
TPN/OPM - Tentara Pembebasan Negara/Organisi Papua Merdeka,
National Liberation Army/Free Papua Movement
TVTL - Televisão Timor-Leste/Televizaun Timor Lorosae
UDT
- Uniäo
Democrática
Timorenese/ Timorese Democratic Union. Formed in 1974. Originally favored continued
ties with Portugal; then became pro-independence.
UN - United Nations
|
UN in East Timor/Timor-Leste
(chronological order) |
UNAMET
- United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor
(11 June-29 October 1999). Conducted August 30, 1999 referendum
UNTAET - UN
Transitional Administration in East Timor
(October 19, 1999-May 19, 2002)
UNMISET - UN
Mission in East Timor
(20 May 2002 -20 May, 2005)
UNOTIL - UN Office in Timor-Leste
(20 May 2005-25 August
2006)
UNMIT - United
Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
(25 August 2006-31 December 2012) |
UNCLOS - United Nations Convention on the Law
of the Sea
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
UNHCHR - UN High Commission for Human Rights
UNHCR - UN High Commission for Refugees
UNICEF -United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
UNIFEM - United Nations Development
Fund for Women
UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
ULMWP
- United Liberation Movement for West Papua
UNPOL - United Nations Police (name currently used, was CivPol)
UNSC - United Nations Security Council
UNSG - UN Secretary-General
UNTEA - UN Temporary Executive Authority (in Western New Guinea/West Papua October 1, 1962 - May 1, 1963)
UNV - United Nations Volunteers
UP4B - Unit Percepatan Pembangunan untuk Papua dan Papua Barat
/ Unit for Accelerated Development in Papua and West Papua (Indonesia)
USAID - United States Agency for International Development
USD - U.S. Dollars
WB - World Bank
WHO - World Health Organization
WPNA - West Papua National Authority
WPNCL - West Papua National Coalition for Liberation
WSS - Water Supply and Sanitation
see also APSN:
Indonesian Acronyms (thousands of items)
West Papua Glossary
From Archives & Museum of East Timorese Resistance:
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