Contact Information:
Phone: (+670) 7832 7074
Email: info@starworld-timorleste.tl
Website: www.starworld-timorleste.tl
Address: Rua Haburas Bairo Pite, Dom Aleixo, Dili
Working Hours:
Weekdays: 8:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday: 2:00pm - 5:30pm
Sundays & Public Holidays: Closed
★ STAR WORLD HOLDINGS ⎻ OUR STORY
Built to Deliver.
Powered to Grow.
Fourteen years ago, a young geologist working on one of the Timor Sea’s most significant offshore oil fields made a decision that would define not just his own life, but the livelihoods of fifty families and the quiet proof that Timorese entrepreneurs can build world-class enterprises from the ground up.
2010
Founded
Registered in Dili, Timor-Leste
14+
Years of Excellence
Delivering without compromise
6
Integrated Divisions
One standard of excellence
40-50
Team Members
Families behind every job
⎯ COMPANY OVERVIEW
Proudly Timorese.
Built to Last.
Star World Holdings is a 100% Timorese-owned, privately held multi-sector enterprise registered and operating in Dili, Timor-Leste since November 2010. The company was built without external capital or institutional backing, grown entirely through reinvested profits, disciplined operations, and the consistent delivery of professional services to an expanding base of government, institutional, and private sector clients.
Today the company operates across six distinct business divisions spanning electrical infrastructure, procurement and supply, civil construction, logistics, commercial property, and mineral exploration, as well as Clarita Boutique, the company’s affiliated fashion and lifestyle enterprise. Each division holds its own government registrations, client relationships, and operational track record. Together they form a holding group that serves across virtually every sector of Timor-Leste’s economy.
Star World Holdings is founder-led, locally accountable, and structured for the long term. The company competes not on price, but on the professional credibility, operational reliability, and personal commitment to delivery that fourteen years of building have earned.
"The number that matters most to me has never been on a financial statement. It is the number of families in Dili who go to sleep every night because Star World gave someone they love a job."
Antoninho J. G. Ximenes ⎯ Founder & CEO
COMPANY AT A GLANCE
Founded
November 2010 • Dili
Ownership
100% Timorese-owned
Division
6 Integrated Divisions
Team members
40-50 Professionals
Active clients
80+ businesses
Location
Dili, Timor-Leste
⎯ OUR BUSINESS DIVISIONS
Six Divisions.
One Standard of Excellence.
Each division of Star World Holdings is a standalone professional operation, with its own team, its own clients, and its own track record.
Together they form a business group that serves virtually every sector of Timor-Leste’s growing economy.
⎯ COMPANY JOURNEY • 2010 - 2024
From One Division.
To a Holding Group.
Each division was established when operational capacity, market opportunity, and strategic timing aligned. From a dual-division founding year to a fully integrated holding group by 2024, the growth of Star World Holdings has been deliberate, disciplined, and entirely self-funded.
2010 · Founding Year
Electrical Installation Division
Star World, Unipessoal, Lda. is incorporated in Dili. The Electrical Installation division launches as the company’s founding core, EDTL-approved from year one, setting the professional and technical standard the entire enterprise would be built upon. It remains the flagship division today, with over 14 years of uninterrupted government and commercial delivery.
2010 · Same Year
Clarita Boutique
Clarita Boutique is co-founded in the same year as the company. Directed by Natacha Patrocinio Sarmento, it is Dili’s curated destination for women’s fashion and lifestyle, guided by three values: Elegance · Style · Confidence. Now in its fourteenth year of operation, Clarita has built a loyal client community in Dili, sourcing collections from England, Thailand, China, and Indonesia.
2012
Procurement & Supply Division
Just two years after founding, Star World formalizes its Procurement & Supply division, providing end-to-end sourcing, import management, and delivery for institutional and commercial clients. Regional sourcing spans Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, and China, with full customs clearance and delivery via the company’s own operational infrastructure.
2022
Construction Division · Tayang HSW, Lda.
Civil construction services are launched through registered subsidiary Tayang HSW, Lda., fully licensed with the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) and compliant with MPIE requirements. The division is structured for government tender eligibility from day one and actively bids on national civil infrastructure contracts. Completed works include erosion protection projects in Ainaro municipality.
2023
Logistics & Transport Division
Star World enters the freight and container logistics sector, establishing port-to-warehouse collection from Tibar Port, last-mile delivery across Dili and Timor-Leste, and real-time WPCargo container tracking. The division is the first locally-owned logistics operator in Timor-Leste to offer live shipment tracking to clients.
2023 · Same Year
Shophouse (Ruko) Leasing Division
Six professionally managed commercial units are launched at Rua Haburas Bairo Pite, Dom Aleixo, Dili. Each unit is 5m × 15m, delivered as an empty shell with water, 24/7 security, and CCTV included. All six units are fully rented from the date of opening. A waitlist is currently active for the next available unit.
2024
Mining Exploration Division & Holdings Restructure
The company formally restructures as Star World Holdings, a multi-division holding company with six fully operational business divisions. The Mining Exploration division launches simultaneously with active licenses for metallic and non-metallic mineral exploration and Block 4 marble exploration at Metinaru in joint venture with Gengo (Jakarta).
⎯ WHAT WE STAND FOR
Mission, Vision & Values
OUR MISSION
What We Exist to Do
To deliver professional, reliable, and integrated services across every sector we serve, creating meaningful employment, supporting the success of every client, and contributing to the economic growth of Timor-Leste, its families, and its future.
OUR VISION
Where We Are Going
To be a large, productive, and trusted multi-sector enterprise that generates meaningful jobs, strengthens family economies, and proves definitively that Timorese-owned businesses can lead every industry they choose to enter.
Our Values
Professionalism Without Compromise
Every member of the Star World Holdings team operates under one clear instruction: serve every client professionally and honestly, and treat their satisfaction as the only acceptable standard. This is not aspirational language, it is an operational requirement embedded in how we work, from the driver at Tibar Port to the CEO in the boardroom. Professionalism at Star World is not a department. It is a culture.
Reliability as a Reputation
In Timor-Leste's business environment, where constrained logistics can make reliability feel like a luxury, Star World Holdings has built its entire reputation on showing up and delivering. Clients who have worked with us for years, some for over a decade, continue to do so not because of marketing, but because we have never given them a reason not to. Our word is our contract.
Local Pride, International Standards
We are Timorese. Our founder is Timorese. Our team is Timorese. And we operate to the same professional standards as any international contractor in our sectors, because we have sat alongside them, worked with them, and been trained in the same technical disciplines. Being locally owned does not mean settling for less. It means delivering more, with a direct personal accountability that no foreign contractor can match.
Continuous Growth — Learning Never Stops
Antoninho entered the logistics sector knowing nothing about it. He entered construction knowing he would need to learn. He entered mining knowing the landscape was complex. In every case, his approach was the same: stay humble, find the experts, ask the right questions, build the capacity, and keep improving. That commitment to continuous learning, from Antoninho down through every manager, is not just a value. It is the reason Star World is still growing after fourteen years.
Star World Holdings · Service Philosophy (from Antoninho's own words)
"We serve every client with professionalism and honesty. We provide good and professional service. And we make client satisfaction our priority, in every task, on every day."
Antoninho J. G. Ximenes ⎯ Founder & CEO, Star World Holdings
⎯ GALLERY
Star World Holdings in Action
⎯ MEET THE FOUNDER
The Geologist Who Chose
to Build on Land.
Founder. CEO. Nation-builder. And the man who proved that the greatest resource Timor-Leste has ever had is not offshore, it is the conviction of its own people.
Some men are defined by the careers they choose. Antoninho Guterres Ximenes is defined by the one he walked away from.
Antoninho was born and raised in Timor-Leste, a country that had only recently won its independence from decades of occupation and was still deciding what it would become. He studied geology engineering, graduating in 2010 with expertise that made him exactly the kind of professional the international energy sector was eager to employ. And employ him they did.
His first position after graduation was as a Junior Geologist with ENI Timor-Leste, the Italian energy major operating the Kitan field, one of the most significant offshore petroleum projects in Timor Sea history, located 170 kilometres south of the coast at 350 metres depth in the Joint Petroleum Development Area. For a young Timorese geologist, being part of a team at that scale was not a small thing. It was, by most measures, the beginning of a prestigious international career.
ENI TIMOR-LESTE ・KITAN OFFSHORE FIELD ・2011-2014
Where He Learned to Think at Scale.
Working inside one of the world’s most sophisticated oil and gas operations, Antoninho absorbed the operational discipline, documentation rigour, and systems thinking he would later embed in every Star World division. The offshore field shaped the onshore company.
350m
Water depth, JPDA
45,000
Peak barrels/day (2012)
ENI
World-class operator — 40% stake
But something would not let him settle. Working inside ENI’s operations, Antoninho saw clearly what Timor-Leste needed that no petroleum field could ever provide: a thriving, locally-owned private sector capable of employing its people, building its cities, and carrying the nation forward beyond the lifespan of its oil reserves. He saw sectors dominated by foreign companies. He saw Timorese talent working for foreign paycheques. And he saw a gap, not as a threat, but as an invitation.
He had already been building Star World on the side since 2010, running electrical installation projects after hours and on weekends, learning the discipline of running a business alongside the demands of his ENI role. By 2014, with his credibility established and his entrepreneurial instincts sharpened by four years at an international standard, Antoninho made his decision. He handed in his resignation, gave up the guaranteed salary, the international exposure, and the comfortable career trajectory, and chose Timor-Leste instead.
That humility is not performance. It is foundational. Antoninho is not a man who leads through authority, he leads through example, through presence, through a genuine investment in the growth of every person who works for him. Ask any member of the Star World team about their CEO and the answer will not be about contracts or corporate strategy. It will be about a man who shows up, who listens, who remembers your name and your family’s situation, and who treats every project with the same seriousness and care.
At the same time, Antoninho’s vision has never been confined to the boundaries of his own company. As the Acting President of ANJET, the National Association of Timorese Young Entrepreneurs, he spends significant time and energy creating the conditions for other young Timorese founders to succeed where he has succeeded. He uses his platform, his experience, and his credibility to create the opening for others that no one created for him. He has been to the mountain, and he is actively building the path so others can follow.
"I am proud of how far we have come. Not because of the business itself, but because behind every service we deliver, there is a Timorese family that has a little more security, a little more hope, and a little more belief that this country can build great things from within."
Antoninho J. G. Ximenes ⎯ Founder & CEO, Star World Holdings
⎯ OUR TEAM
40+ Professionals.
One Standard.
Behind every service that Star World Holdings delivers is a person who chose to trust this company with their livelihood. That trust is the most serious obligation on Antoninho’s desk every single day.
25
Electrical Division
National & international certified professionals. EDTL technical standard.
12
Logistics Transport
Drivers, supervisors, security & managers at Tibar Port.
5
Office & Admin
Dili headquarters operations and management team.
4
Clarita Boutique
Fashion curation & premium customer experience team.
Star World Holdings’ team of forty to fifty professionals is not a human resources statistic. It is forty to fifty households in Dili, families paying school fees, meeting rent, putting food on the table, because Star World exists and continues to grow. Understanding this is essential to understanding why Antoninho leads the way he does. For him, every business decision is also a welfare decision.
The electrical division, the company’s founding heart, is staffed by 25 professionals, a deliberate mix of international technical specialists and local Timorese technicians who learn alongside them, building the local knowledge base that Timor-Leste will need long after any particular project is complete.
At Star World Holdings, training is not a compliance exercise. It is a competitive advantage. Team members are expected to understand not just their own tasks, but the systems and standards behind those tasks. The goal is not just to employ Timorese people. The goal is to develop Timorese professionals whose skills and discipline will serve the nation for decades.
⎯ FUTURE PLANS
Star World Holdings
Is Only Just Getting Started.
Fourteen years of building has created the foundation. What comes next is the structure that rises on top of it, a more connected, more digital, and more regionally ambitious Star World Holdings.
Mining • 2026 and Beyond
Mining Division — Full-Scale Expansion
Block 4 marble and manganese exploration at Metinaru continues in joint venture with Gengo (Jakarta). Active participation in Government of Timor-Leste mineral block bidding rounds. A dedicated standalone website for the Mining Division is in development, designed to attract international exploration partners, institutional investors, and government stakeholders at scale.
Regional · ASEAN Integration
ASEAN Positioning & Regional Partnerships
As Timor-Leste’s newest ASEAN membership opens a regional economy of 680+ million people, Star World Holdings is actively positioning itself at the front of that opportunity, in logistics, procurement, and mineral resources. Building the supplier networks, institutional relationships, and digital infrastructure to serve clients across the region, not just within Timor-Leste.
Digital · Platform Development
Digital Expansion & Service Innovation
The WPCargo real-time tracking system is the first chapter of Star World’s digital story, not the last. Future plans include enhanced client portals, streamlined procurement platforms, and digital tools that bring the same professionalism of the company’s operational standards into the digital client experience.
Construction · National Reach
Government Civil Works — National Scale
Tayang HSW, Lda. continues to bid on government-contracted civil infrastructure projects across Timor-Leste’s 13 municipalities. Priority areas include erosion control, road access infrastructure, and public facilities that strengthen community economic capacity and national connectivity.
Leasing · Commercial Portfolio
Commercial Property Portfolio Growth
With all six shophouse units fully rented since launch, demand signals are clear. Star World Holdings is evaluating the expansion of its commercial real estate portfolio to meet the growing needs of Timor-Leste’s SME and startup sector, which increasingly requires secure, well-managed, and centrally located commercial premises.
Clarita · Brand Growth
Clarita Boutique — Growing the Brand
Clarita Boutique is growing its collections, client base, and online presence, with expanded social media commerce and a dedicated website in development. The goal is to make Clarita the definitive women’s fashion destination in Dili, and eventually across Timor-Leste.
⎯ Our Country, Our Responsibility
Timor-Leste Is Building Its Future.
Star World Is Part of the Architecture.
Timor-Leste is at a turning point. As the newest member of ASEAN, a historic achievement that opens the country to a regional economy of over 680 million people, Timor-Leste faces one of its most critical structural challenges: building a private sector capable of sustaining economic growth when the petroleum fund eventually runs dry. The government has made this diversification a national priority. But governments cannot create private sector enterprises. Entrepreneurs do.
Star World Holdings is one of the few locally-owned Timorese enterprises that has already demonstrated, across multiple sectors and over fourteen consecutive years, that this is possible. The company employs Timorese people in sectors, logistics, electrical infrastructure, construction, mining, commercial property, that have historically been dominated by foreign operators. It trains Timorese professionals to international standards. It generates revenue that stays in Timor-Leste.
For investors, partners, and institutional clients considering engagement in Timor-Leste’s private sector: Star World Holdings represents exactly the kind of enterprise that makes such engagement credible, sustainable, and impactful. It has the operational track record, the founder credibility, the team depth, and the multi-sector platform to scale into the next phase of Timor-Leste’s development story.
"Timor-Leste does not need more people who talk about developing this country. It needs more people who invest in it, with their capital, their skills, their time, and their trust. That is what I have tried to do with Star World. And I am only just getting started."
Antoninho J. G. Ximenes ⎯ Founder & CEO, Star World Holdings
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