That is what will build a nation. It is absurd to have half the population unemployed when their country is in ruins and desperately needing reconstruction. One reason the 170,000 refugees from East Timor are still in camps in western Timor is that there are no jobs in East Timor. What the international community must do is train the East Timorese so that they can provide for themselves. The key to modernization and development has always resided in creating a modern civil service and the institutions it administers.
Civil servants require a high degree of training.
Foreign agencies providing relief and security remain important, but moving beyond these tasks, tasks that actually inhibit local development, is essential in order to train and employ citizens to create their own civil society.