Despite an ongoing dispute regarding the border between the two countries, Jorge said this issue should not harm relations between the two countries.
"The border dispute is the business of Dili and Jakarta. Therefore, the people of East Timor and West Timur should visit each other because we are brothers and sisters as fellow Timorese," the Timor Leste home affairs minister noted.
Jorge said he was disappointed that a district head in East Nusa Tenggara forbade his people to visit their brothers and sisters in the Timor Leste enclave of Oecusse because of the continuing border dispute at Naktuka and other locations in Oecusse.
Jorge, an alumnus of Salatiga Satya Wacana University in Central Java, said efforts to resolve the border dispute between the two countries should continue to be made by each government.
He reiterated that the border issue was the business of Dili and Jakarta, and that there was no reason for any official to forbid his or her people to visit Timor Leste.
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