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• In September, Timor-Leste will mark a quarter century since its vote for independence from Indonesia, the conclusion of a 24-year long struggle that left few Timorese families untouched.
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Where is the land?

• It’s around 1,000 hectares of rare old-growth forest and rice fields on the western edge of Timor-Leste’s Oecusse (also spelled Oecussi) Enclave.
• Oecusse is 800 square kilometres of rugged coast and mountains some 70 kilometres west of the rest of Timor-Leste.
• Such a border would cede around 270 hectares of forest and rice fields to Indonesia.
• The signing of the border agreement, which was to have occurred in Jakarta in late January, has been postponed.

A small hamlet on a divided island

• While Naktuka is governed by Timor-Leste, in 2005, Timor-Leste signed an agreement confirming the status of around 95% of its border with Indonesia, with a small number of areas to be clarified later.
• In 1904, when the Dutch and Portuguese moved to finalise the division of Timor, they differed in their interpretation where Oecussi’s borders should be.
• With the Indonesian invasion of 1975, Naktuka, along with the rest of Portuguese Timor, became part of the province of Timor Timur.
• The population grew, slowly, and in many ways Naktuka was similar to any other hamlet in Timor-Leste.
• In Timor-Leste sovereignty is sacred, literally, as is the principle of consent and consultation on matters relating to land.

Michael Rose does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• More than 800 companies (institutions) brought about 2,000 onsite projects to the fair, which spans across 30,000 square meters.
• The 2023 CIEF has hit an all-time high in the number of projects and the area of exhibition.
• On that day, contracts on ten achievement commercialization projects were signed at the opening ceremony.
• To date, the CIEF has exhibited more than 45,000 achievements and released more than 38,000 projects, with those subsequently commercialized worth over 68 billion yuan.

• Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the Data Cloud company, today announced at its Snowday 2023 event new advancements that make it easier for developers to build machine learning (ML) models and full-stack apps in the Data Cloud.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231101058683/en/
  Snowflake Accelerates How Users Build Next Generation Apps and Machine Learning Models in the Data Cloud (Graphic: Business Wire)
  “The rise of generative AI has made organizations’ most valuable asset, their data, even more indispensable.
• Snowflake is making it easier for developers to put that data to work so they can build powerful end-to-end machine learning models and full-stack apps natively in the Data Cloud,” said Prasanna Krishnan, Senior Director of Product Management, Snowflake.
• Leading organizations are monetizing their Snowflake Native Apps through Snowflake Marketplace , with app listings more than doubling since Snowflake Summit 2023 .

• In a data streaming platform, stream processing acts as the compute layer that turns data into valuable insights and action.
• As one of the top projects of the Apache Software Foundation, Flink has emerged as the de facto standard for stream processing.
• “Companies globally are leveraging data streaming with Apache Kafka to power real-time experiences,” said Shaun Clowes, Chief Product Officer at Confluent.
• "When used in combination, Apache Flink and Apache Kafka can enable data reusability and avoid redundant downstream processing.