It was first published on 1 February 1993, at the same date of Xanana Gusmão first day of trial in Dili district court.
[2] Suara Timor Timur published its last edition on 3 September 1999 and fully stopped its publication a day later due to the massive looting, destruction and burning by the pro-Indonesia militia following the independence referendum.
Consequently, all facilities of the newspaper such as building, printing machines and thousands of tons of newsprint were totally destroyed and burnt down.
According to an agreement, 800 copies are made available to the government for distribution to all sucos in the country in order to provide information to local administrators.
[4] Key people include Salvador Ximenes Soares, a former Golkar politician in the Indonesian parliament,[5] and Domingos Saldanha, the co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the paper[6] who is related to Estanislau de Sousa Saldanha, the former rector of the Dili Institute of Technology and João Mariano Saldanha, the founder of Republican Party.