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Mountains behind Sacato.
Old arch on the Sacato side of the border in 2009 before the new checkpoint was built.
Sacato, sometimes spelled Sakato (Portuguese : Sacato, Tetum : Sakato), is a village in East Timor. It is located in the suco of Nipane within the Pante Macassar Administrative Post in the Oecusse Special Administrative Region. It also the main border crossing between the East Timorese exclave of Oecusse and Indonesia. [1] [2] [3]
Sacato is located on the Oecusse coastline which is on the northern coast of Timor island. It is located to the west of the Noel Meto river which forms the East Timor-Indonesia border. The mountains of Oecusse rise up behind Sacato.
The village is served by the main road from Pante Macassar, the capital of Oecusse which is located 15 km to the east. From Sacato, the distance to the main part of East Timor via the Mota'ain/Batugade border crossing is about 75 km along the northern coastal road which traverses North Central Timor Regency and Belu Regency of Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia.
The Sacato integrated frontier checkpoint (Portuguese: Posto Fronteirico Integrado) is located 15 km east of Pante Makassar and just west of the bridge over the Noel Meto which forms the East Timor-Indonesia border. The checkpoint on the Indonesia side is called the Wini border crossing checkpoint.
The checkpoint was newly built to cater to immigration, customs, quarantine and security procedures after East Timor became independent. The facility was opened by Vice Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres on 28 June 2012. [1] The border crossing is the main one for Oecusse as it is located on the shortest route between Oecusse and the main border crossing into the main part of East Timor at Mota'ain/Batugade.
West Timor is an area covering the western part of the island of Timor, except for the district of Oecussi-Ambeno. Administratively, West Timor is part of East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. The capital as well as its main port is Kupang. During the colonial period, the area was named Dutch Timor and was a centre of Dutch loyalists during the Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949). From 1949 to 1975 it was named Indonesian Timor.
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Mota'ain, also spelled Motain, Mota'in or Mota Ain, is a hamlet in the Silawan village (desa), East Tasifeto district (kecamatan), Belu Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
North Central Timor Regency is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. It covers an area of 2,669.70 km2, and had a population of 229,803 at the 2010 Census and 259,829 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 271,277. Its regency seat is located at the town of Kefamenanu, which had a population of 49,589 in mid 2023. The regency borders Timor Leste's Oecusse enclave, one of few Indonesian regions that have a land border with other countries.
Oecusse, also known as Oecusse-Ambeno and formerly just Ambeno, officially the Special Administrative Region Oecusse-Ambeno, is an exclave, municipality and the only Special Administrative Region (SAR) of East Timor.
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Wini is a village in the Nusa Tenggara Timur province of Indonesia. It is the capital of the North Insana subdistrict of the North Central Timor Regency. It is located on the north coast of the western part of the island of Timor, between East Timor to the east and its exclave of Oecusse to the west. A major border crossing checkpoint into East Timor's exclave of Oecussi is located here.
Salele is a village in East Timor located in the suco of Lalawa in the Tilomar Administrative Post of the Cova Lima Municipality. It is the location of the second main border crossing between the East Timor and Indonesia. The checkpoint on the Indonesian side of the border is called the Motamasin checkpoint.
Entikong is a district (kecamatan) and also an administrative village (desa) within that district in Sanggau Regency of West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. It is the location of the main border crossing between the West Kalimantan and the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The checkpoint on the Malaysian side of the border is called the Tebedu immigration, customs, quarantine and security checkpoint.
Batek Island or Fatu Sinai is a small uninhabited island located in the Savu Sea, northwest of the island of Timor, 9.3 km (5.8 mi) off the East Timorese municipality of Oecusse. The sovereignty of the island is disputed between Indonesia and East Timor.