An Act of Free Choice: Decolonisation and the Right to Self-Determination in West Papua

ISBN-13: 9781851687152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 928 str.

Pieter Drooglever

Opis

This important study introduces the history and people of West Papua, tracing the origins of the international conflict surrounding their struggle for self-determination following the Second World War. Based on three decades of exhaustive research and focusing particular attention on the sham referendum of 1969 - which Indonesia dubbed The Act of Free Choice, an election rigged to legitimize Indonesian control over West Papua - Drooglever highlights the continuing impact of this injustice on Indonesia s most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken province. Pieter Drooglever was the lead researcher on a government-sponsored, 27-year study of the decolonisation of Indonesia at the Institute of Netherlands History at The Hague. He also served as chairman of the historical committee for Indonesian Studies, and was a lecturer in Indonesian History at the University of Nymegen, where he held the L.J. Rogier chair."

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