Finding Santana: A Perilous Journey in Search of an East Timorese Guerilla Hero

by Jill Jolliffe

In Finding Santana Jill Jolliffe tells of her clandestine journey across the Indonesian archipelago pursued by the Suharto dictatorship's notorious secret police. Her goal is an interview with East Timorese guerilla commander Nino Konis Santana.

177 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Louise Omer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jill Joliffe is my new hero. She's a foreign correspondent who began in Timor in 1975, and this follows her quest in 1994 to trek across the Indonesian archipelago (where she is a blacklisted journalist) to speak with Santana, a guerrilla leader. This is candid but knowledgeable, full of facts with a personal bent.