Passabe Administrative Post

{{Expand German|topic=geo|date=November 2010|Passabe (Verwaltungsamt)}}

{{short description|Administrative post in Oecusse Municipality, East Timor}}

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{{About|the administrative post|the village|Passabe}}

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| settlement_type = Administrative Post

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|tag2=tet |name2=Postu administrativu Pásabe}}

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| image_alt = Traditional house in Abani

| image_caption = Traditional house in Abani

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| map_alt = Official map of the Administrative post

| map_caption = Official map

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Passabe, officially Passabe Administrative Post ({{Langx|pt|Posto Administrativo de Passabe}}, {{Langx|tet|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.{{cite web |title=Subdistricts of Timor-Leste |url=https://www.statoids.com/ytl.html |website=www.statoids.com |access-date=21 September 2022 |date=4 May 2010}}{{cite journal |title=Diploma Ministerial n.o 24/2014 de 24 de Julho Orgânica dos Postos Administrativos Preâmbulo |trans-title=Ministerial Diploma No. 24/2014 of 24 July Organic of Administrative Posts Preamble |journal=Jornal da República |date=24 July 2014 |lang=pt |volume= |issue= |pages= |url=http://www.jornal.gov.tl/?q=node%2F6605 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084342/http://www.jornal.gov.tl/?q=node%2F6605 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |publisher=Government of East Timor |access-date=21 September 2022 |url-status=dead}} Its seat or administrative centre is the suco of {{ill|Abani, Passabe|de|Abani (Passabe)|lt=Abani}}. 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.