East Timor Training Trip (Part 3)

17 June 2007

Day 1 in East Timor

Finally, we reach our destination, East Timor. The time here is 1 hour faster than us. Which means if Malaysia time is 11.10am, at East Timor will be 12.10am. First, we need to meet our person in charge of the workshop/ training this time, he’s name is Ray. He is the IT officer of Timor Leste Media Development Centre (TLMDC). He will also become our translator during the 5 days training.

The city we reach at East Timor is calling Dili. Dili is a small city and you can see a lot of United National (UN) cars and people there. Ray brings us to visit few of their famous places like their sea which very clean and beautiful, mountain to view the whole Dili city, wet market and some of their famous buildings.

After that, we are having our lunch at a Indian’s restaurant. After the lunch, we go to our hotel to drop our luggage first, and then we walk to our training centre which is Ray office to have a look.



Our hotel at East Timor. Our training centre is very near to our hotel, it only needs to walk within 100 feet’s to reach there. Their office is around 55 x 50 square feet’s. Our training place is at the back of the building which just builds up for the training purpose. There are 15 participants take part in this training. All of them are guys and between 20 – 40 years old. This training section include how to install and use the Internet Gateway, File Server Storage, LINUX / UNIX and web server, ftp, mal server and etc.

Although is the first day of us to reach here, we are start our work with preparing all the material for tomorrow training. We did all the preparation before we rest for today.

For additional information, there is one thing that takes my attention which is their internet speed and prices. Their internet was 128 kbps but the price is amazing. How much you guess their internet costing? There is 600 USD which equal to RM2100. Wooooooo…….. That is really expensive and is amazing. In Malaysia, the house use internet speed is already 512kbps to 1Mbps and it only cost us RM77 - RM99. This is the first time I feel the Malaysia internet speed is reasonable if compare to here.