Difficulties Arose When Refugee Have No Passport
Muddy roads when it rains or sandstone. Houses were built improvised so, though only a year old, partially house walls collapsed. Refugees were reluctant to occupy. That instance occurred in Location 32, 28, and 18. Dozens of homes in that location is empty and neglected destroyed. Head of Social NTT Kara Emanuel when met in Kupang, said housing construction is very simple (RSS) for the refugees have been done by the government since 2006 until 2009. The number is 11 000 units to 55 000 refugees scattered in Kupang regency (3409 units), East South Central / TTS (185), East North Central / TTU (154), and Belu (7252). All have received the RSS from the government, he said.
Difficulties arose when refugee have no passport. NTT Social Service, Emanuel added, has also provided assistance in the form of houses, cash, building materials and home to 25,000 families. However, Emanuel also admitted the existence of data ex-East Timorese refugees in East Nusa Tenggara varies. Therefore, he can not confirm that the assistance provided to the Social Service NTT completely to the refugees. Not sure, if the 25,000 families that are native or citizen of the former East Timorese citizens, including citizens of Indonesia such as the origin of Belu, TTS, TTU, and Kupang regency, he said.
Political Victim Coordinator East Timor (cockpit) with citizens of the former East Timorese in West Timor was fighting fund of Rp 76 billion. Their calculations, each family should receive assistance in cash of Rp 5 million, but has yet to obtain those funds. Difficulties arose when refugee have no passport. Documenting the cockpit, the number of ex-East Timorese in West Timor as many as 15 000 families or about 75,000 inhabitants.
In addition to unfulfilled needs of the board, facing the East Timorese refugees are also associated social rights and cultural rights. As a result of setting a rigid boundary, some of them could not meet the family when there are traditional ceremonies or relatives who died. Difficulties arose when refugee have no passport. Passport processing costs, according to some refugees, USD 400 000. Not to mention the cost of entry visas Timor Leste USD 300 000.
Anthony Meko, indigenous elders in the Villages Manamas, TTU, never experienced. When relatives in Bausiu, Ambenu (Oekusi, Timor Leste), died in 2004, he and his extended family were stuck in the door because it does not yet have Wini border passport. Difficulties arose when refugee have no passport. Various items of their dowry, such as tais, candles, old pieces of money, and other objects, forced to give to the guard post. We were all just crying, he said. To get around this situation, some residents of Indonesia and East Timor was forced down the street rats to avoid the guard, when the risk of security officers detained or fined goats are worth 3-4 million dollars.
Officers at the Post Wini, the border post in North Insana Subdistrict, TTU, asserted, they only perform tasks according to established rules. Anthony Meko hope Governments of Indonesia and Timor Leste to give a special policy for the citizens of East Timor in order to meet each other at low cost. I’m sad a lot to by way of a mouse, he said. Difficulties arose when refugee have no passport.