Passabe Administrative Post

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 East Timor, which is an exclave surrounded on three sides by Indonesian West Timor.^[1][2] Its seat or administrative centre is the suco of Abani [de].^[2] 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.

This article is about the administrative post. For the village, see Passabe.

Passabe
Administrative Post
Posto Administrativo de Passabe (Portuguese) Postu administrativu Pásabe (Tetum)
Traditional house in Abani
Official map
Passabe
Coordinates: 9°28′S 124°21′E
Country	East Timor
Municipality	Oecusse
Seat	Abani [de]
Sucos	Abani [de] Malelat [de]
Area
• Total	60.2 km2 (23.2 sq mi)
Population  (2015 census)
• Total	7,879
• Density	130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Households (2015 census)
• Total	1,817
Time zone	UTC+09:00 (TLT)