Melissa Johnston
Talking Indonesia
Melissa Johnston: Resilient Patriarchies
- Published
- February 26, 2026
- Duration
- 43:44
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 2, 2026
Discusses Timor Leste became independent from Indonesia in 2002, after 24 painful years of Indonesian occupati…
Summary
Timor Leste became independent from Indonesia in 2002, after 24 painful years of Indonesian occupation built on centuries of Portuguese colonisation. Both regimes were deeply violent and extractive, and as my guest today argues, drew Timorese society into different forms of a valorised armed masculinity that would have repercussions well after Timor’s ind…
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Timor Leste became independent from Indonesia in 2002, after 24 painful years of Indonesian occupation built on centuries of Portuguese colonisation. Both regimes were deeply violent and extractive, and as my guest today argues, drew Timorese society into different forms of a valorised armed masculinity that would have repercussions well after Timor’s independence. It’s in this post-conflict context that Mel Johnston examines Timor’s gender interventions. Gender mainstreaming is a global set of