Sosok.ID – Did you know that first Timor Leste is one of the provinces of Indonesia?
Yes, the name used to be East Timor.
It’s just that everything changed on August 30, 1999. Where in an opinion poll, the citizens chose to break away from Indonesia.
Since that, Timor Leste to be your own country and independent.
After leaving Indonesia, Australia and Portugal were the two countries most eager to push Timor Leste to independence.
You could say the 2 countries became their main allies.
But now Timor Leste is a serious threat to Australia.
Not because of the economic and military revival of the land of the rising sun.
However, it was more because of Timor Leste’s proximity to China.
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