Dominukus da Silva, 56, resident of Silawan Village, Belu District, East Nusa Tenggara, sharing borders with Timor-Leste, sat on a hut he owned while enjoying the view of his farms of corn and other crops.
The village itself directly faces the neighboring country.
“We can see the Indonesia-Timor-Leste border there,” he remarked while pointing to a river that separates the two countries that were once one in the past.
Da Silva is a villager who preferred to pledge allegiance to Indonesia following Timor-Leste’s secession. He has been an inhabitant of Silawan Village since 1999.
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