Manuel Cárceres da Costa

Manuel Cárceres da Costa is an East Timorese politician[1] and writer.[2] He is the incumbent Minister of Justice, serving under the VIII Constitutional Government of East Timor.

Manuel Cárceres da Costa
Cárceres da Costa in 2019
Minister of Justice
Assumed office
22 June 2018 (2018-06-22)
Prime MinisterTaur Matan Ruak
Preceded byMaria Ângela Carrascalão
Personal details
BornLacló, Manatuto,
Portuguese Timor
(now East Timor)

Early life

Costa is the son of two devoted Roman Catholic teachers who lived in Lacló, in the then District of Manatuto. After attending primary school there, he received his secondary education at the Bishop of Medeiros College (Colegio de Bispo de Medeiros) in Dili.[1]

In compliance with a decision of his deceased father, Costa then entered the Seminary of Our Lady of Fatima in Dili. Subsequently, after realising that he was unable to fulfil his parents' dream that he would become a priest, he left the seminary and enrolled at the Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado.[1]

By 1978, Costa had become a Fretilin member; that year he witnessed the destruction by the Indonesians of the East Timorese resistance base in Laclo.[3]

In 1999, Costa graduated with a degree in Public Administration.[2]

Career

After the withdrawal of the Indonesians from East Timor in 1999, Costa worked for the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and became the UNHCR's representative in East Timor for eight years.[1][4][5]

In the 2001 parliamentary election, Costa stood as an independent candidate to become a direct representative for the then district of Manatuto. He received only 838 votes (5.4%).[6]

From 2006 to 2010, Costa studied law, majoring in criminal law, at the Universidade da Paz (UNPAZ) in Dili. In February 2009, he became an advisor to Timor Telecom and, three months later, its director of Institutional Relations until 2018.[2][5]

On 22 June 2018, after being approached and supported by the People's Liberation Party (PLP), Costa was sworn in as Minister of Justice of the VIII Constitutional Government, under Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak. Up to that point, he had considered that his political career had ended in 2001.[1][5]

In an interview published in May 2019, Costa said that he had told Ruak during his pre-appointment meeting that "I come to serve, not add more numbers to ministerial positions."[5]

Publications

In addition to his autobiographical book 26 anos, to testemunho (Dili: Livraria Central, 2010, 2nd edition 2013; OCLC 897041092) on the East Timorese struggle for freedom, Costa has written various poems on the same topic. He speaks Tetum, Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia and English.[2]

gollark: With the butterfly-weather-control example that's derived from, you can't actually track every butterfly and simulate the air movements resulting from this (yet, with current technology and algorithms), but you can just assume some amount of random noise (from that and other sources) which make predictions about the weather unreliable over large time intervals.
gollark: That seems nitpicky, the small stuff is still *mostly* irrelevant because you can lump it together or treat it as noise.
gollark: Why are you invoking the butterfly effect here?
gollark: That would fit with the general pattern of governments responding to bad things.
gollark: Apparently by texting numbers you can send payments, on mobile phones. What UTTER IDIOT thought that that was a good and secure idea?

References
  1. "Primeiro grupo de membros do VIII Governo timorense tomou posse em Díli" [First group of members of the VIII Timorese Government take office in Dili] (in Portuguese). SAPO. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  2. "Mini Biografia Manuel Cárceres" [Mini Biography Manuel Cárceres]. SAPO Notícias (in Portuguese). 27 November 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  3. Part 5: The History of the Conflict (PDF; 564 kB) from the Chega! report of the CAVR
  4. Fointuna, Yemris (17 June 2002). "E. Timor accedes to demands by former militia commander". Jakarta Post. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  5. Staff writer (14 May 2019). "East Timor Minister of Justice, Cárceres Interview Part I: I am here to work, Not just to add Minister's Position Number". Tempo Timor. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  6. "East Timor Constituent Assembly Election of 30 August 2001". East Timor elections website. Retrieved 2 December 2019.

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