Makasae
The Makasae are a Papuan, Trans-New Guinea people of eastern Timor around Baucau, Viqueque and Tutuala, whose language, grouped with Fataluku in the Eastern Timor branch of the West Bomberai family, is the most widely spoken Papuan language west of New Guinea. Their chiefdoms stood within the Portuguese sphere in eastern Timor, under indirect rule through local rulers.