Passabe Administrative Post

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Administrative post in Oecusse Municipality, East Timor

Administrative Post in Oecusse, East Timor

9°28′S 124°21′E / 9.467°S 124.350°E / -9.467; 124.350Country

East TimorMunicipalityOecusseSeatAbaniSucos

Abani
Malelat [de]

Area

• Total60.2 km² (23.2 sq mi)Population

(2015 census)

• Total7,879 • Density130/km² (340/sq mi)Households (2015 census)

• Total1,817Time zoneUTC+09:00 (TLT)

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.

References

^ "Subdistricts of Timor-Leste". www.statoids.com. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
^ ^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.