indonesian response to deteriorating situation, page-148

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    "The sooner you embrace your counterpart the better coz the age of anti social and racial vindictive is gone, past, history, finito...zip. Its no longer conquer and divide, no longer them and us." Maverich

    West Papua
    "A two-year study by a team of Australian and local researchers concluded in 2005 that Indonesia’s security forces had been the main source of instability in the territory and estimated that more than 100,000 Papuans had died through Indonesian military campaigns since incorporation into Indonesia"...

    "Accordingly in 1969, the United Nations supervised the "Act of Free Choice" in which the Indonesian government used the procedure of musyawarah, a consensus of 'elders'. Deeming Papuans to be too "primitive" to cope with democracy, the 1,054 elders (officials appointed by the Indonesian government) represented were forced at gunpoint to be a part of Indonesia.[32] Soon after, the region became the 26th province of Indonesia - wikki
 
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