The Timor-Leste Elections Web Archive covers the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2012 and 2017.

Timor-Leste won independence from Indonesia in 2002, and despite internal tensions has held regular elections. Presidential and parliamentary elections occur once every five years. The President appoints the Prime Minister, who is usually the leader of the majority party or coalition in parliament. The Prime Minister presides over the cabinet, while the President is head of state, with veto power when it comes to legislation.

Timor-Leste has a multi-party system, with the main parties being the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT), the Revolutionary Front of Independent Timor-Leste (FREITLIN), the Democratic Party (PD), the Frenti-Mudança, the People’s Liberation Party (PLP), and Kmanek Haburas Unidade Nasional Timor Oan (KHUNTO).

Websites harvested for this archive include blogs and websites by the government, political parties, human rights groups, and news agencies.

Staff from the Library of Congress Jakarta Office and the Asian Division in Washington, D.C. selected the websites and reviewed the archived results.

Collection Period:
January 2012 to August 2012
March 2017 to August 2017

Frequency of Collection: The majority of sites in the collection were targeted for capture monthly or weekly, with fewer targeted for capture once.

Languages: Collection material in Tetum, English, and Portuguese.