East Timor: education and human
resource development
[1] This is a rough estimate. There are 442 villages (desa) in East Timor. By 1985 there were 497 primary schools in the province. Even allowing for the fact that many of these primary schools were in the towns such as Dili and Baucau, the figures suggest that in 1985 or shortly thereafter, there would have been a primary school in every village.
[2] Under the Indonesian administration, not only could East Timorese spontaneously look for jobs outside the province, but the Yayasan Tiara of the Department of Manpower had a systematic program of sending East Timorese to other parts of Indonesia to work (Saldanha 1994:264).