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The island of Timor lies about 600 kilometres northwest of the Australian coast and has long been inhabited by peoples related to those in the western islands of Indonesia. About 2500 years ago, Malay peoples began settling in the main eastern Indonesian islands of Java, Borneo and Sumatra.
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Butcher, J., Bastian, P., Beck, M., D’arbon, T., Taouk, Y. (2015). Timor-Leste. In: Timor-Leste. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-884-8_2
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