How five Australia-based television journalists died 34 years ago, trying to film Indonesia's invasion of the then Portuguese colony of East Timor, remains officially unresolved.

ECONOMIST: Among so many dead in East Timor, a few now famous foreigners

Indonesians tried harder to develop Timor than the Portuguese ever did, but their guilt made them uneasy.

ECONOMIST: East Timor

Such a vote had been held three months earlier in East Timor, the former Portuguese colony annexed by Indonesia in 1976.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

Unlike East Timor, which was a former Portuguese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and has now won the right to independence, Aceh was long administered as a part of the Dutch East Indies before the entire archipelago, or most of it, became Indonesia in 1949.

ECONOMIST: Preparing for Aceh��s next battle