Passabe Administrative Post

Passabe, officially Passabe Administrative Post (Portuguese: Posto Administrativo de Passabe, Tetum: Postu administrativu Pásabe), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in the Oecusse municipality and Special Administrative Region (SAR) of East Timor, which is an exclave surrounded on three sides by Indonesian West Timor.[1][2] Its seat or administrative centre is the suco of Abani.[2] In the 2004 census it had a population of 7,531 people in 1,153 households. Passabe is a small village (sulo) in the administrative post, very near the Indonesian border. It was the site of a massacre of East Timorese by pro-Indonesia militias in the follow-up to the 1999 referendum for East Timor's independence.

Passabe
  • Posto Administrativo de Passabe (Portuguese)
  • Postu administrativu Pásabe (Tetum)
Traditional house in Abani
Traditional house in Abani
Official map of the Administrative post
Official map
Passabe is located in East Timor
Passabe
Passabe
Coordinates: 9°28′S 124°21′E / 9.467°S 124.350°E / -9.467; 124.350
Country East Timor
MunicipalityOecusse
SeatAbani
Sucos
Area
 • Total
60.2 km2 (23.2 sq mi)
Population
 (2015 census)
 • Total
7,879
 • Density130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Households (2015 census)
 • Total1,817
Time zoneUTC+09:00 (TLT)

References

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  1. ^ "Subdistricts of Timor-Leste". www.statoids.com. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Diploma Ministerial n.o 24/2014 de 24 de Julho Orgânica dos Postos Administrativos Preâmbulo" [Ministerial Diploma No. 24/2014 of 24 July Organic of Administrative Posts Preamble]. Jornal da República (in Portuguese). Government of East Timor. 24 July 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
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