Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho

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Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho
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de Carvalho in 2017
Born (1966-07-02) July 2, 1966 (age 57)
Dili, East Timor
NationalityEast Timorese
EducationBSc Environmental Sciences
Alma mater Gadjah Mada University
Occupation(s)Environmental Scientist, politician
EmployerHaburas
SpouseSantina Carvalho (deceased)
Children4
Awards Goldman Environmental Prize (2004)

Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho (b. East Timor, 2 July 1966) [1] is an environmentalist from East Timor. He has been State Secretary for the Environment since 2018. [2]

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Background

de Carvalho grew up in villages south of Liquica on the north coast of East Timor, and was 9 years old when in 1975 his father was murdered by members of FRETILIN. In the same year Indonesia occupied East Timor. He hid in the jungle until the age of 13, [3] and became a resistance fighter against the period of Indonesian occupation. In 1988, with his education disrupted by the war, Carvalho graduated from the SMA 5 school in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He later joined National Resistance of East Timorese Students (Portuguese : Resistência Nacional dos Estudantes de Timor-Leste (RENETIL)), East Timor's leading student resistance movement. de Carvalho was involved in the publication of the first RENETIL magazines. In 1990 he graduated from Gadjah Mada University with a degree in environmental sciences. One week after the 1991 Santa Cruz massacre, Carvalho was arrested by Indonesian police and detained without trial for three weeks. The reason was his participation in a protest in Jakarta.

Environmental activism

Carvalho was a founder of the environmental organization, the Haburas Foundation. Haburas is one of East Timor's only environmental NGOs. It began shortly before East Timorese independence (formed in 1998) and has attracted wide acclaim for its efforts to support environmental programs and Timorese values, particularly Tara Bandu, a customary law that enables traditional ecological wisdom. Haburas means "to make something green and fresh" in Tetum. The organization runs classes and supports programs to create sustainable livelihoods, through agricultural, craft, and ecotourism projects. Haburas succeeded in bringing environmental protection into the East Timor constitution (Section 61). [4]

In politics

Carvalho is a member of the Partidu Libertasaun Popular (PLP). [5] On 20 May 2017 he became one of six deputies selected by party leader Taur Matan Ruak. [6] In the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2017, Carvalho took fifth place on the PLP's list [7] and thus became a member of parliament. He became chairman of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Development (Committee D). He was sworn in on June 22, 2018, as Secretary of State for the Environment. [8]

Recognition

do Carvalho was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2004, for his early work with Haburas. [9] [10] Video on the Prizewinner

Other

do Carvalho's wife Santina passed away in 2019. The couple had been married since 1995 and had three sons and a daughter.

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References

  1. ↑ "Parlamento Nacional de Timor-Leste | Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho".
  2. ↑ "Parlamento Nacional de Timor-Leste | Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho".
  3. ↑ http://grist.org/article/nijhuis-carvalho/ Interview in Grist Magazine 2004
  4. ↑ "Constitution of the Democratic Republic of East Timor".
  5. ↑ Timor Hau Nian Doben: E Timor civil society on skid row: President Archived 2016-03-12 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 12 March 2016.
  6. ↑ PLP: Estrutura, 19 June 2017.
  7. ↑ La'o Hamutuk 2017 Timor-Leste Parliamentary Election – List of Parliamentary slates from all parties, 14 July 2017.
  8. ↑ SAPO: Primeiro grupo de membros do VIII Governo timorense tomou posse em Díli, 22 June 2018
  9. ↑ "Alphabetical list of all recipients". Goldman Environmental Prize. Archived from the original on 23 November 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
  10. ↑ "Islands & Island Nations 2004. Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho. East Timor. Environmental policy". Goldman Environmental Prize. Archived from the original on 23 November 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
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