No I wasn’t aware of the history of Indonesian imperialism in West Papua – the western half of New Guinea – till now. Peter Tatchell tells the story at CiF.
West Papuan Independence Day
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Just a guess but the US and Australia were getting into the whole Domino Theory/Vietnam thing at about the time the UN gift wrapped West Papua. I’m sure that US Pres. Nixon was counting on Indonesia’s anti-communist government, led by Suharto, for support and wasn’t about to alienate him.
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This timeline http://www.gimonca.com/sejarah/sejarah10.shtml is very helpful in understanding why the West, starting in ’66, owed Indonesia’s Suharto.
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