Profile of gateway to Timor filmed

Profile of gateway to Timor filmed

ATAMBUA, East Nusa Tenggara: A profile of Belu regency bordering the newly independent East Timor will be featured in a film entitled Atambua, Gateway to Timor, which will also show tourist, cultural and industrial centers in the area.

Belu deputy regent Bria Yohanes said in Atambua on Monday that at least 12 potential places of interest in the regency, such as tourist spots, cultural attractions, handicraft factories and natural resources, would be covered in the film.

Among the cultural highlights are the cave of Lourdes in Tubaki, visited annually by thousands of Catholics in October, and the Tubaki fountain on a monument built by the Dutch in the district of Central Malaka.

In Lamaknen district opposite East Timor, mining may figure prominently with its abundant resources of gold, gypsum, copper, lime and white clay, as well as marble deposits in Raihat and crystals in Central Malaka.

Ceramics and woven fabrics with Malaka motifs are part of Belu's handicrafts featured in the film which will cost over Rp 200 million to produce. --Antara