If we could only find a new multi billion barrel oil province of the coast of West Papua, then the West could maybe support independence.
For now it will stay as the President Kennedy said back in 1962 to the then Dutch Prime Minister.
How can you compare a few thousand papuans who still live in the stone age with the people of West Berlin.
(the Dutch minister tried to convince President Kennedy at the time to support them in the battle to keep the Indonesians out of then called Dutch New Guinea.)
Hereby the deal was sealed and after the vote of free (no) choice , supervised by the United Nations, West Papua became part of Indonesia.
What happened afterwards with the Papuans has been well documented by Human rights groups.
