Sosok Carlos Belo, Uskup Peraih Nobel yang Diduga Lecehkan Anak-anak

JAKARTA, INDONESIA: Carlos Ximenes Felipe Belo (R), who won the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts related to East Timor shakes hand with Benjamin Mankoedilaga (L), co-chairman of Indonesian-East Timor Truth and Friendship Commission, after a public hearing in Jakarta, 26 March 2007. A truth commission set up by Indonesia and East Timor held its second public hearing in an attempt to uncover the facts surrounding a bloody independence vote in East Timor in 1999. Militia gangs, which the UN has said were recruited and directed by Indonesia's military, killed about 1,400 people and destroyed much of the infrastructure in the former Portuguese colony. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD ZAMRONI (Photo credit should read AHMAD ZAMRONI/AFP via Getty Images)

Carlos Ximenes Filipe Belo atau Uskup Belo (kanan) berjabat tangan dengan Benjamin Mankoedilaga (kiri), salah satu ketua Komisi Kebenaran dan Persahabatan Indonesia-Timor Leste, setelah audiensi publik di Jakarta, Senin (26/3/2007). (Ahmad Zamroni/AFP/Getty Images)

JAKARTA, INDONESIA: Carlos Ximenes Felipe Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts related to East Timor speaks during an Indonesian Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) public hearing in Jakarta, 26 March 2007.A truth commission set up by Indonesia and East Timor held its second public hearing in an attempt to uncover the facts surrounding a bloody independence vote in East Timor in 1999. Militia gangs, which the UN has said were recruited and directed by Indonesia's military, killed about 1,400 people and destroyed much of the infrastructure in the former Portuguese colony. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD ZAMRONI (Photo credit should read AHMAD ZAMRONI/AFP via Getty Images)

Uskup Belo berbicara dalam dengar pendapat Komisi Kebenaran dan Persahabatan Indonesia (KKP) di Jakarta, Senin (26/3/2007). Seorang uskup Timor Leste yang juga peraih Nobel Perdamaian, tengah diselidiki Vatikan setelah dituduh melecehkan secara seksual sejumlah anak laki-laki. Tindak pelecehan itu dilaporkan terjadi saat perjuangan kemerdekaan Timor Leste tahun 1990-an silam. (Ahmad Zamroni/AFP/Getty Images)

(AUSTRALIA OUT) Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo attends a press conference in the East Timorese capital, Dili, before returning to Mozambique, 28 October 2006. SMH Picture by GLENN CAMPBELL (Photo by Fairfax Media via Getty Images/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images)

Uskup Belo menghadiri konferensi pers di ibukota Timor Leste, Dili, Sabtu (28/10/2006). Uskup yang dimaksud adalah Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, yang pernah menjadi kepala Gereja Katolik Roma di Timor Leste, atau yang dulu disebut Timor Timur. (Fairfax Media/Getty Images)

FILE - Nobel Peace Prize laureates East Timor bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, left, and activist Jose Ramos-Horta wave upon their arrival at the Oslo townhall for the Nobel ceremony, on Dec. 10, 1996. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Jon Eeg, File)

Uskup Belo (kiri) dan Jose Ramos-Horta melambai setibanya di balai kota Oslo untuk upacara penerima Nobel, Selasa (10/12/1996). Disebutkan laporan De Groene Amsterdammer bahwa dua pria yang mengklaim sebagai korban, menuturkan ketika remaja, berusia sekitar 14-16 tahun, mereka dilecehkan secara seksual oleh Belo di rumahnya di Dili dan kemudian diberi uang olehnya. (AP Photo/Jon Eeg)

FILE - Nobel Peace Prize laureate, East Timor bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo displays his certificate and medal during the Nobel ceremony at the Oslo townhall, on Dec. 10, 1996. Belo has been accused in a Dutch magazine article of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s, rocking the Catholic Church in the impoverished nation and forcing officials at the Vatican and his religious order to scramble to provide answers. (AP Photo/Bjoern Sigurdsoen, File)

Uskup Belo menunjukkan sertifikat dan medalinya selama upacara Nobel di balai kota Oslo, Norwegia, Selasa (10/12/1996). Belo merupakan tokoh yang dihormati di Timor Leste yang mayoritas warganya menganut Katolik. (AP Photo/Bjoern Sigurdsoen)

Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo (L) and José Ramos-Horta (R), 1996 Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo by Micheline Pelletier/Sygma via Getty Images)

Uskup Belo (kiri) dan José Ramos-Horta (kanan) usai meraih Nobel Perdamaian di Oslo, Selasa (10/12/1996). Uskup Belo meraih Nobel Perdamaian bersama Jose Ramos-Horta, yang saat ini menjabat Presiden Timor Leste. (Micheline Pelletier/Getty Images)

Nobel Peace laureate Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo (L) hugs a supporter upon his return to East Timor 06 October 1999, one month after he fled violence at the hands of pro-Jakarta militia. Belo, who wanted to stay in East Timor but fled when his home was destroyed by fire, returned to his homeland today to be met by dozens of supporters. AFP PHOTO (Photo by JASON REED / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JASON REED/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Uskup Belo (kiri) memeluk seorang pendukung sekembalinya ke Timor Timur, Rabu (6/10/1999). Vatikan pun telah memberlakukan sanksi kepada Uskup Belo pada Kamis (29/9/2022). Dilansir Associated Press, sanksi atau pembatasan yang diberikan Vatikan kepada Uskup Belo itu antara lain, dilarang bepergian dan menjalankan pelayanannya. Ia juga dilarang melakukan kontak sukarela dengan anak-anak remaja atau Tanah Airnya di Timor Timur. (Jason Reed/AFP/Getty Images)

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson (R) walks with Noble laureate Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (L) at Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, 25 August 2002. Robinson, who is on a three-day visit to the newly independent country, visited the cemetery to honor the victims of a 1991 massacre that killed at least 271 people and planted trees in front of the cemetery where Indonesian troops fired on thousands of pro-independence demonstrators in 1999. AFP PHOTO/Antonio DASIPARU (Photo by ANTONIO DASIPARU / AFP) (Photo by ANTONIO DASIPARU/AFP via Getty Images)

Komisaris Tinggi PBB untuk Hak Asasi Manusia Mary Robinson (kanan) berjalan dengan Uskup Belo (kiri) di pemakaman Santa Cruz di Dili, 25 Agustus 2002. Berita tentang dugaan pelecehan seksual yang dilakukan oleh Uskup Belo mengejutkan banyak pihak, tak terkecuali bagi komunitas Katolik di Asia Tenggara. Belo selama ini dianggap sebagai pahlawan karena berjuang untuk kemerdekaan Timor Timur dari Indonesia. (Antonio Dasiparu/AFP/Getty Images)