The Stolen Children of Timor-Leste | Foreign Correspondent
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Born in Timor, raised in Indonesia, a group of East Timorese stolen during wartime is now returning home. But will reunion with long lost family heal old wounds? This is a moving story about the power of blood and memory.
‘It's a way to break a family, break a person, break a society by taking their most loved members.’ Human rights worker.
At the age of 8, Alis Sumiaputra was plucked from the streets of his village in Timor-Leste by an Indonesian soldier and taken to West Java.
The soldier adopted the stolen child into his family, converted Alis to Islam and changed his name. Eventually, Alis took over the family farm. His Timorese family was never mentioned. Until, in 2019, a woman called Nina came looking for him.
Like Alis, Nina Pinto was stolen from Timor-Leste as a child. She was abused by the soldier who took her and treated like a servant by his family.
“All I could do was cry. I longed for my family. But I couldn’t do anything. I was helpless”, says Nina.
At age 17, she ran away and later managed to reunite with her Timorese family. Now she’s helping people like Alis connect with their birth families.
Nina and Alis are among an estimated 4000 Timorese children who were ‘stolen’ from their homeland after Indonesia occupied Timor-Leste in 1975.
In the early chaotic days of the invasion, the soldiers took the children opportunistically. Later, children were taken as part of a state-sponsored mission by Indonesia to educate and ‘civilise’.
“Maybe in the beginning, there was a feeling of trying to save children who were perhaps separated from their families’, says Galuh Wandita from the NGO, Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR). “Later on, there were religious institutions that were involved.”
AJAR is now tracking down Timor’s ‘stolen children’ and helping reunite them with their birth families.
In a powerful and moving journey, Indonesian correspondent Anne Barker follows Alis and a group of Timor-born adults as they return to their country of birth to reunite with their families.
For Alis, there is pain, guilt, joy and an awakening.
At his parents’ graveside in his village, Alis, whose birth name is Kalistru, bows his head and weeps.
"My dear father. My dear mother. When you died, I wasn’t here. I am your son, Kalistru Momode, asking for forgiveness.”
“This was one of the most moving stories I've ever covered. The moment we landed at Dili Airport I had a lump in my throat as I watched the emotion of those 'stolen children' on board who were returning to their homeland for the first time in decades. I only hope that thousands more will have the same chance that Alis and Nina have had.” Anne Barker, the ABC’s Indonesia correspondent
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
1:40 Alis’s Story
5:22 Nina’s Story
8:26 Leaving Home
10:22 AJAR and Memories
15:33 The Journey and Reunion
17:46 Alis’s Reunion
22:55 Home and Healing
28:13 What’s Left
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Sedih 😭😭,,, smg ini mjd pelajaran buat kita semua,, hidup jgn mengambil hak org lain,, belajar berusaha hidup bahagia berdampingan walau berbeda,, smg Indonesia & Timor Leste bisa terus bergandeng tangan dlm kebaikan,,, salam dari jawa timur🥰🙏
Sedih tidak tau artinya😭
maaf biginilah hidup kami hilang sanak keluarga entah dimana mungkin udah meninggal mungkin jg belum tergantung pada waktu !! byk sekali org indonesia maaf membenci kenapa kalian mimilih merdeka dan sekarang kalian miskin. bagi kami mau miskin atau kaya kami hidup ditanah kami biarlah masa yg berlalu tinggalh sejarah namun masih ada rasa benci tapi sulit utk menjelaskan ! byk org indonesia yg cuma melihat akan sisi pemerintah indonesia kala itu yg hanya focus akan pembangunan Timor timur itu betul tapi diwaktu yg sama pembunuhan , penculikan terus dilakukan TNI !! kalian tdk disepatu kami kalau kalian di sepatu kami pasti kalian akan melawan !! bagaimanapun jg sejarah tinggalah kenangan meri kita hidup bergandengan tangan !! Viva Timor Leste , viva Indonesia
Hak apa yang diambil Indonesia dari Timor-Timur? batu koral, kerikil atau jagung kering?
This is very emotional to watch. I do hope more people will be reunited.
For the Timor Leste people, we are so sorry about what the orba did to you. This reconciliation may bring your forgiveness for us. This is only what we can do.
Salam kak dari Timor Leste. Ketika saya baca komentar kaka saya terharu sekali tapi, ya itulah hasil dari peperangan dan politik para elit waktu itu. Jadi Kita semua adalah korban, terus terang ya saya dulu benci sekali sama TNI karena keluarga saya banyak yg mati di tangan mereka. Tapi saya rasa sudalah yang berlalu sdhlah berlalu, sebab Tuhan lah yang berhak untuk menhakimi semua manusia. Doa saya, semoga kedua negara ini bisa maju dan sejahtera tampa mengunkit masa lalu untuk membangun masa depan yang baik. Salam damai dari Timor Leste untuk saudara tetanga kami Indonesia 😥❤🙏
Kita rakyat kecil jadi korban politik.
@@johnfreitas8094 itu karna Amerika yang desak indo untuk aneksasi Timor biar fretlin ga berkuasa berbarengan dengan ussr
A beautiful story, I love the focus on reuniting, rather than the atrocities the Timorese have already experienced!
It's really sad and joyful when all stolen children may reunites with their own families. I thank you for those who has made a great efforts to realize the dreams of those children to be reunited with their own biological families. I pray that one day all stolen children may back to Timor-Leste and together we develop this beautiful and tiny country.
Emotionally captivating... hopefully other stolen ones out there in search of their loved ones can be reunited with their family soon... thanks AJAR; thanks ABC 🙏🏻
War is terrible!
My heart is So broken for these & all of Timorese people! I am very good friends with the Guesmao family! Yet this is another part of this painful story I hadn't even known had existed! Until now! I can only pray that all the families of these kidnapped children, have the to find their loved one's! I can't imagion the year's they have all spent not knowing what ever happened to them. Please Keep bringing them home! My heart & prayers remain with you!
I'm waiting for abc to do documentary about Australia stealing east Timor oil
LMAO 😂😅😂
they have - its called Secrets Spies & Trials and its by four corners
Mr Ali has a happy family now. Get a better life Indonesia. How can he was stolen? He was saved by Indonesian army.
Did you even feel what his parents felt when their lost their kid? He was kidnapped, for sure. He has family in TL
@@DB-lp9db Timor was at war. Bombing & Shooting was everywhere. Ali's eldest sister said in the video, at that moment many people was not thinking of other people. Later on their family didn't angry with him (the soldier) who took Ali because the soldier raised Ali like his own son.
Alis bahagia tapi banyak yang menderita.
the narration is too made up. the reality is not like that. Mr.Alis lived happily in my village. it proved he was back here. and did not choose to go home to Timor Leste.
Hah ini mang alis? Satu desa sama aku dri tasikmalaya.. dia orgnya baik klo ada prtandingan volly d turnamen 17 agustus dia yg suka jdi wasitnya.. semoga sehat sllu mang😍
Di tasikan nya ?
Tos uih deui acan ? Tepat na di desa naon ?
Ats ayna mh.. kp. Pasir peuteuy desa tnjung karang
ada kang yang terpisah juga di karawang sama di bandung, mereka punya darah asli timur tapi udh sunda medok .
Nobody stole children from East Timor. They were taken and treated in Indonesia. Can't you see what condition they were in on the video when they returned to Timor Leste? No one looks thin and suffering.
where is the latest video of foreign correspond? Is it banned by RUclips?
An amazing story 😪
Semoga sehat km paman salam satu desa satu kabupaten satu kecamatan🙏
god bless those people, all that suffer.what Indonesian done was brutal.
It is a true story and based on the reality.
Kisah kelam negaraku, mohon maaf kepada seluruh rakyat Timor Leste. Salam perdamaian Indonesia-Timur Leste
that their own fault do revolt
Tidak. Itu karena perang dan Kita tidak saling membenci. Yang berlalu sudahlah kita lalui dan kita saling memaafkan dan fokus ke masa depan yang lebih baik. Salam dari timorleste
@@LOARAI walau sudah beda negara kita tetap saudara banyak kenangan di timles waktu masih kecil
Salam kak dari Timor Leste. Ketika saya baca komentar kaka, saya terharu sekali tapi, ya itulah hasil dari peperangan dan politik para elit waktu itu. Jadi Kita semua adalah korban, terus terang ya saya dulu benci sekali sama TNI karena keluarga saya banyak yg mati di tangan mereka. Tapi saya rasa sudalah yang berlalu sdhlah berlalu, sebab Tuhan lah yang berhak untuk menhakimi semua manusia. Doa saya, semoga kedua negara ini bisa maju dan sejahtera tampa mengunkit masa lalu untuk membangun masa depan yang baik. Salam damai dari Timor Leste untuk saudara tetanga kami Indonesia 😥❤🙏
Kalian itu rakyat timles 1 ras 1 saudara 1 pulau dengan NTT tapi kalian merasa berbeda hanya karena beda jajahan. Harusnya kalian bangga dengan negara NKRI seperti NTT mereka merasa besar merasa kuat merasa bangga memiliki tanah air sebesar ini seberagam ini sebebas ini. Meskipun banyak orang indonesia tidak setuju tapi saya berharap timles bisa kembali lagi ke negara NKRI, Kesusahan kebutuhan hidup dan pembangunan sangat lambat. Tanah kering, minyak dikuasai australia. Yg kaya hanya pejabat saja. Warga harus impor kebutuhan dari indonesia dan negara lain. Ini memperumit masalah yg harusnya tidak boleh serumit ini. Kalau jerman barat dan jerman timur saja yg dulunya juga berpisah sekarang bisa kembali. Kenapa kita tidak? Sejarah biar menjadi pelajaran tentang pahitnya perang saudara dan perpisahan
Very emotional. Leaving wife to East Timor. I can feel what Alis feels. I'm from West Java.
Are Aljazeera and ABC shares a same content?
Thank you australia, you really make indonesia look like a villain, and you are the "oil stealing" hero
Don't forget about what's happening in Papua since 1960s thanks to the smiling generak
don't forget indonesia is occupied east timor and annex it
Gw setuju aneksasi taun 1975 itu salah, dan gw senang timur leste udah merdeka sekarang, dgn merdekanya Timor leste setidaknya NTT bisa diurus dan lebih maju dibanding timor leste saat ini, tapi itu NGO dan reporternya bias, terlalu ngejelekin Indonesia padahal aneksasi tahun 1975 tuh disponsori australia juga yg skrg ngebiayain NGO ini, ironi banget, terus itu pak alis yg hidupnya sudah senang dikatakan harus pake healing juga, gak salah? asalnya senang malah jadi trauma itu pak alis, bukan healing namanya tapi dehealing
Ini media autralia dia sengaja bahas masalah ini untuk mengalihkan isu minyak di celah timor yang selama ini hasilnya banyak di nikmati Australia
Australia as yang desak indo masuk timles karna as kalah di Vietnam indo yang di seret penjahat tunggal jadinya
who's the journalist ? I'd like to follow more Indonesian speaking foreign correspondents like this
Obrigado
Sedih.. generasi kami bahkan tak tahu kalau ada kejadian seperti ini di Timor Leste semasa perang dulu.
Saya bermimpi suatu saat indonesia tidak perlu ada hubungan apapun lagi dengan australia, cukuplah sebagai tetangga saja tanpa ada diplomasi apapun....semoga saja
Keknya lu benci banget sama aust😬
❤❤❤ from papua
Indonesia
Greet from Timor Leste for Papua ..
@@pacificoceania5828 god bless 😇
I've got dust in my eyes.
Australia and its allies have successfully separated Timor Leste from Indonesia, Australia has been able to mine oil and now Timor Leste is the poorest country in the world no156, mission succes 👍love from bali
That's a sad fact. That's something we are afraid of when Papua is separated from Indonesia.
Setuju.. Paling bisa emang dia, Sekarang bikin video seolah indonesia betul-betul bersalah..
Ini tidak akan terjadi jiga ausi dan port tidak merebut wilayah yang pada waktu itu jelas wilayah indonesia. Lihatlah papua , lihatlah wilayah indonesia yang lain, Pemudanya kuliah di jawa dan pulau lain indonesia dan kembali ke papua mebangun daerah agar lebih maju. Bukan dengan cara melepaskan wilayah dan mendirikan negara baru. Blunder dari video ini adalah, ketika orang yang di bawa keindonesia lebih makmur kehidupannya dibanding dengan keluarganya yang stagnan. Sayang sekali propaganda video anda tidak berhasil. Australia sebaiknya urusi negara anda yang akan di kuasai Cina.
Australia pendukung operasi penyerbuan Timor Leste. Ingat, adu domba itu bisa saja dilakukan oleh orang2 berkuasa, mau dari dalam ataupun diluar. Pemikiran kalian harus bisa lebih dalam lagi dari itu. Yang diinginkan Australia itu kan sumber daya, caranya ya bisa saja dengan apapun. Salah satunya dan yg lebih awal adalah yang saya sebut di paling atas tadi.
@@TopanSopandi itu TIDAK AKAN PERNAH TERJADI KALAU INDONESIA STAY PUT DARI PERMASALAHAN TIMOR LESTE!!!
They learnt this from australia - look up australia's stolen generation
Hey Gareth hows that 'responsibility 2 protect' working out?
Crying ...
I wonder why you don't allow comments under your manipulative material about Poland "A new crusade"? Not to be challenged?
Agreed, Ive seen this as well. Almost all video about Indonesian controversies are allowed when it hits too close to home they banned comments.
✨🙏✨
Mang alis dari Cigalontang kab tasikmalaya
East Timorese to Indonesia:
“you stole my children.”
East Timorese to Australia:
“YOU STOLE MY OIL!”
😭😭😭😭
Doesn't sound like he was forcefully taken to Jakarta
sehatt selalu mang aliss.. saya tau mang alis ko
Anak nya cakep
What is this Gotong Royong
Working together in solidarity
Biased. focusing only with negative statemens. 🇵🇭
I don't think so they we're showing the positive side too like Mr alis story
guys, kunci dari terjadinya timor leste itu adalah provokator, maka dari itu alangkah baik nya kita sekolah yang tinggi dan mari kita bersama sama membangun negeri, mungkin kalau timor timur masih di nkri sekarang udah jadi tempat para wisatawan seperti pulau komodo, labuan bajo
Jaga NKRI itu dengan cara mempertahankan teritori negara, bukan dengan cara mengurangi dan apalagi menambah daerah secara paksa.
Ng Ada provocator!! Kemerdekaan adalah hak segala bangsa !! Cuma ente ng meresakan pahit hidup dlm otoriter soeharto dimana keluarga kita yg dibunuh entah dimana makam mereka !! Apakah ente Ada pengalaman begitu ? Jadi biarlah kami menjalani hidup kami dgn berbagai macam masalah tp kami yakin suatu hari kami akan menjadi negara yg layaknya negara lain !!
*Media Australia biasa propaganda*
Propaganda apa ini fakatnya udah jelas disana . Kamu buta atau ng ??
@@catholoc no because the whole intention of australia was to mine the oils establishing East Timor as an independent nation was the cover up
TL : where is our oil and gas now?.........
Australia : Interfet is not a bunch of unemployment, they need milks/cheese/eggs/bread and ofcourse sallary to
ooo....
Australia : Sorry Neighbors "There is no such thing as free lunch" .
ABC : We can even make it more dramatcally, and organize our Non Government Organization
Australia : good job pal
Let’s us deal with it and we trusted our leaders to solve it !! Before you start commenting please mind your freeport which is still US influenced!!
Great story reunite with the family. I hope in the near future this land reunite again with Indonesia and ignore false promise from neighbor country that want to steal their oils
Tambah hancur sekarang, timmur Leste perang saudara, gedung pun tak ada yg dibangun
Hatimu kyk hewan ng Ada rasa utk menilai org !! Biar mereka jalanin hidup mereka !! Kemerdekaan adalah hak segala bangsa !! Munafik ya indonesia jg masih byk yg miskin !!
Along Orba time, the army (TNI AD) ruled Indonesia and persecuted the native of Papua people, the native of Dayak and the native of Timor Leste. Now the politic has been changed. The army doesn't rulle Indonesia anymore.
lebih baik lepas dari indonesia agar Timoer Leste impor selamanya ke indonesia dari sembako, minyak sawit, ternak, kendaraan dll sehingga semua produk indonesia laku...thanks Timoer Leste belilah produk made in indonesia...👍👍👍
Lukanya berasa di gw
It is based on the reality 👍
You can do comparison, How devastated the country of Iraq after being attacked by the US and Australia. Timor leste far better because the previous Indonesia regime has develop the people there
Still pretty bad especially since my mom got shot in the stomach and my dad in the leg when saving her
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa sp yg naro bawang😭
11:29
Mugia mang Alis sehat dn panjang umur dn slalu bahagia salam kanggo klg mang Alis di Tasikmalaya mudah"an klg di Timles tiasa sumping keklg ditasikmalaya...
Kasian ya korban propaganda australia 😂😂😂😂
Thanks god they were brought and been adopted by Indonesian people. Now, they have better lives and financials in Indonesia. Knowing that Timor Leste now become one of the poorest country in the world and many of them demand to reunite with Indonesia again make us sad.
Don't spread hoax 😂
Make peace, no war. Make love, no hate.
Better than under Portuguese rule. Worse than slaves
Well one family was good and the other sexually abused the poor girl. But even the good family didn't have the right to steal someone else's child.
Saya pribadi meminta maaf pada semua saudara di Timor Leste 🙏
ngapain minta maaf mereka yg bikin revolusi, mereka juga masi eprang sesama timor elste selama 10th ga ada yg minta maaf
@@kosakata8632 SAMPAH OTAK RASIS
@@reidycfr102 hey km nie Orang luar yg bisa bahasa indonesia, ya
@@indolirik2207 Emang knape? Bukan urusan mu
Belanda aja minta maaf sama Indonesia, ya mungkin Indonesia jg hrsnya minta maaf secara ga langsung aneksasi sama aja penjajahan secara halus
Arminius
Kompeni emang paling Bisa, bikin video seolah indonesia betul-betul bersalah..
Ini tidak akan terjadi jiga ausi dan port tidak merebut wilayah yang pada waktu itu jelas wilayah indonesia. Lihatlah papua , lihatlah wilayah indonesia yang lain, Pemudanya kuliah di jawa dan pulau lain indonesia dan kembali ke papua mebangun daerah agar lebih maju. Bukan dengan cara melepaskan wilayah dan mendirikan negara baru. Blunder dari video ini adalah, ketika orang yang di bawa keindonesia lebih makmur kehidupannya dibanding dengan keluarganya yang stagnan. Sayang sekali propaganda video anda tidak berhasil. Australia sebaiknya urusi negara anda yang akan di kuasai Cina.
Susah2 kuliah di Jawa, eh gak taunya tanahnya udah dijual ke perusahaan aseng
Tidak perlu ada yang disalahkan....mereka korban perang, niat baik mwngangkat harkat dan martabat bangsa Timor setelah penjajah Potugis tidak bertanggung jawab berakhir dengan tidak bahagia. Sebagai WNI saya tidak bisa menyalahkan negara saya atas invasi ke Timor Timur. Kebijakan Mandala dan Geo politik, menyatukan rakyat 1 pulau Nusa tenggara itu yang mendasari invasi itu. Semoga bangsa Timor bisa segera bangkit dari keterpurukan....fokus negara kami sekarang memakmurkan rakyat NTT.
Kebijakan Mandala dan Geo Politik? Sangat salah langkah
Ingat, itu masih di zaman Perang Dingin. Pengaruh ideologi sangat kuat pada zaman itu.
Sedih tidak tau artinya 😭
gak besa basa engres
Watak Kolonial Indonesia terlihat jelas disini 😢
Stolen? 3:25 they go voluntary
If you stolen why you not go back home 20yrs ago, border always open and no visa required
Who block them back home is pro independence group, they will accuse them as indonesian militia
Think before you comment. They don't know where they were taken from. They were kids when they were taken.
It is not voluntary if they are tricked into volunteering to go. Again, they were kids.
@@efronberlian think again, indonesian - TL border always open for 20yrs. What make him wait so long?
The answer is simple civil war for 10yrs (stupid INTERFET failed to mainain peace) and extreme poverty, if his family have no connection to fretilin party, he has no future in timor leste.
@@kosakata8632 you ignored the problem that they don't know where they were taken from. Even if they come back there is a big chance that he'll just spend a lot of money and time and still not find their family.
Also who do you think created the problem in the first place? Indonesia is the one who annexed Timor Timur in the first place. Then they take children from there, why are you defending kidnappers?
@@efronberlian Did you know who's indonesia supporter for this invasion? the suppoerter are US, AU, netherlands, south korea and taiwan for communism reason
Did you realized UN approve this annexation? check again did your your country againts this invasion? you too naive dude XD
@@kosakata8632 United nations never approved of Indonesia's Annexation of Timor Leste. What are you talking about?
Isn't that exactly what the the united nations going to do with the fema camps? Once again we the people are playing into their hand all over the world!
hopefully they can also get away from Islam.
sehatt selalu mang aliss.. saya tau mang alis ko