USAID Project Gives Ancient Ceremony New Focus

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Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta and US Ambassador Hans Klemm attended a traditional ceremony in Dili that reaffirmed social norms and fixed penalties. This modern version of Tara Bandu added formal laws to customary strictures as part of the USAID-funded community-oriented policing project that has established a new framework for communities and the police to solve problems together.
(May 13, 2010)