Over 90% of all school buildings were severely damaged or destroyed by the Indonesian military and in the exodus of Indonesians out of East Timor, the nation lost 20% of its primary school teachers and 80% of secondary teachers, most of whom are not expected to return.
Politics of East Timor takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of East Timor is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.
Timor island is before 1976 splitted into 2, the east part was colonized by Portugal, and on the west part the area of Indonesia, yet after 1998 a movement of east Timor independence supported by Australia and Portugal succeeded in giving suppression to Indonesian government to organize a memorandum of opinion, under the watch of UN which brought east Timor ( Timor l'Este ) into their independency.