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1st Int. Transborder Conf. of the Timor Island: Timor %u2013 Science without borderDili, 7-8 May 2025151When Life Becomes The Battlefield: Life of East Timorese In West TimorMario A. OnggangInstitute Resource of Governance and Social ChangesEmail: marioarnestoonggang@gmail.comAbstractThe infrastructure for restoring peace needs to be investigated, referring to the management of governance of UNTAET and UNHCR. By May 2003, UNHCR claimed that only 25,000 remained, of whom 225,000 had returned to Timor-Leste. Unintentionally, due to the general election, the Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs census found that 125,455 East Timor people remained in Indonesia, with 117,616 still living in East Nusa Tenggara province. It was reduced to 104,436 people in 2005, around 88,363 East Timorese people live in West Timor. This study will focus on the experience of East Timorese in West Timor in the Kupang district throught in-depth interview and historical records, to investigate the effects of liberal art of governance, as Foucault argues that creating a sort of limitation, control, forms coercion, and obligation depends on threats. Informing an interplay of territorial sovereignty of Timor Leste and Indonesia on how it dictated biopolitical control of the population. The practice of identifying to securing highlights the structure of sovereignty of both countries, and goes beyond by looking into their sense of territorial due status of citizenship. Expose the logic of status as a logic of control over decisions of East Timorese communities. Keywords: Bare life, East Timorese, UNHCR, Legal Status, Population, Timor Leste, Indonesia.