09 Dec 2024

Capacity Building Workshop: Developing Timor-Leste World Heritage Convention Tentative List

Timor-Leste became the 193 State Party to the UNESCO World Heritage Convention on 31 January 2017. Having ratified the Convention, Timor-Leste joins the broader international community committed to ensuring the identification, protection, conservation, presentation, and transmission to future generations of the cultural and natural heritage situated in its territory. Since Timor-Leste ratified the convention, there […]

16 Oct 2024

The launch of the QPR book on the 2005 UNESCO Convention in the context of the 2024 Borders Festival.

RAEOA, 15 October 2024 Acting Prime Minister, Eng. Mariano Sabino Assanami, together with the Secretary of State for Arts and Culture, accompanied by authorities from NTT, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste, launched the Quadrennial Periodic Report, QPR 2024, on the Protection and Promotion of Diversity of Cultural Expression and the Book: Strengthening Cultural Expressions: and Recognition Alliance […]

10 Oct 2024

Timor-Leste National Commission for UNESCO (TLNCU) participated in the seminar “1st Information Officer Capacity Building Workshops on the ICHLINKS Online Platform” in Thimphu, Bhutan.

Thimphu, Bhutan, 7–8 October 2024 The first workshop on the ICHLINKS Online Platform was organized by the International Information and Networking Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO-ICHCAP and the National Library and Archives of Bhutan. The objective of the workshop was to increase the knowledge of information […]

09 Oct 2024

Seminar on preservation of local history (oral tradition) in Lolein language in Remexiu (Aileu) and Cristo Rei (Dili) administrative posts

The Resource Development Team, Culture Division of the Timor-Leste National Commission for UNESCO (TLNCU), conducted activities to preserve local history (oral tradition) in the Lolein language, which is spoken in some parts of the Remexiu-Aileu Administrative Post and the Cristo-Rei-Dili Administrative Post. This activity was attended by local authorities and the Lolein-speaking community, speakers, and […]

24 Sep 2024

Conduct Technical Training on Business Management “For Groups of Soru Na’in and Groups of Tais Handicraft Industry in Bobonaro Municipality.

Maliana, 24 September 2024. The National Committee for Intangible Cultural Heritage of Timor-Leste (KOMNAS PKI TL) through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Timor-Leste National Commission for UNESCO (TLNCU) conducts technical training on business management “for groups of Soru Na’in and groups of Tais handicraft industry in Bobonaro Municipality. This training activity is […]

14 Aug 2024

Workshop and socialization on the ichLinks Video Competition: CAPTURING THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE.

Timor Leste National Commission  for UNESCO, together with the Secretariat of State for Arts and Culture working with UNESCO Jakarta, launched the IchLink Video Competition (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Timor-Leste) at the Pusat Budaya Indonesia  (PBI) in Dili. The competition is a special program of the International Information and Networking Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage […]

14 Aug 2024

Lautem Municipality: National Workshop on the Nomination of Nino Konis Santana National Park as a UNESCO-Designated Site and Action Plan for Preservation

Nino Konis Santana National Park (NKSNP), established in 2007, is the first national park in Timor-Leste. Located at the eastern tip, it covers an area of 123,600 hectares in the eastern part of the country, which accumulates a variety of landscapes ranging from coastal areas and coral zones to montane areas and deciduous tropical forests […]

26 Jul 2024

Seminar for the preservation of local history in the ISNI language of Foholau and Orana Village, Post Administrative of Turiscai Municipality of Manufahi.

Manufahi 25/07/2024, Timor-Leste National Commission for UNESCO (TLNCU), in collaboration with the Secretary of State for Arts and Culture, held a seminar in the village of Foholau and Orana in the post administrative of Turiscai municipality in Manufahi. The seminar discusses local history in the ISNI language; this program is a program from TLNCU working […]

30 Mar 2024

TLNCU Launched the Booklet and Video Tebe Traditional of Timor-Leste

The Timor-Leste National Commission for UNESCO (TLNCU) launched a booklet and video tebe of traditional Timor Leste from the seven municipalities, namely Ermera, Ainaro, Aileu, Lautem, Viqueque, Baucau, and Liquica. This activity was carried out in the village of Eraulo, Olopana municipality of Ermera, and received support from UNESCO Paris and worked together with TLNCU. […]