Possible Clues:

• Asian country independent since 2002
• Land annexed by Indonesia
• Estimator miscalculated where Dili is capital
• Indian Ocean island country
• Old hands returned, mobbed by audience in island nation
• Ex-Portuguese colony annexed by Indonesia, independent since 2002
• Southeast Asian country, independent since 2002, capital Dili
• In Italian capital knocked back bubbly with tenor in a preoccupied state
• Part of the Malay archipelago - estimator (anag)
• I matter, so poor a country