  Tetun is one of Timor-Leste's official languages alongside Portuguese. It is
a low-resource language with over 932,400 speakers that started developing when
Timor-Leste restored its independence in 2002. The media mainly uses Tetun, and
more than ten national online newspapers actively broadcast news in Tetun every
day. However, since information retrieval-based solutions for Tetun do not
exist, finding Tetun information on the internet is challenging. This work aims
to investigate and develop solutions that can enable the application of
information retrieval techniques to develop search solutions for Tetun. We
present a preliminary result of an experiment conducted on the task of ad-hoc
retrieval in Tetun.
