Passabe Administrative Post
Passabe | |
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Traditional house in Abani | |
Official map | |
Passabe | |
| Coordinates: 9°28′S 124°21′E / 9.467°S 124.350°E | |
| Country | Timor-Leste |
| Municipality | Oecusse |
| Seat | Abani |
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| Area | |
• Total | 60.2 km2 (23.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2015 census) | |
• Total | 7,879 |
| • Density | 131/km2 (339/sq mi) |
| Households (2015 census) | |
| • Total | 1,817 |
| Time zone | UTC+09:00 (TLT) |
Passabe, officially Passabe Administrative Post (Portuguese: Posto Administrativo de Passabe, Tetum: Postu administrativu Pásabe), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in the Oecusse municipality and Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Timor-Leste, which is an exclave surrounded on three sides by Indonesian West Timor. Its seat or administrative centre is the suco of Abani. In the 2004 census it had a population of 7,531 people in 1,153 households. Passabe is a small village (sulo) in the administrative post, very near the Indonesian border. It was the site of a massacre of East Timorese by pro-Indonesia militias in the follow-up to the 1999 referendum for East Timor's independence.