It is now more than 50 years since Indonesia took over what had been briefly declared as independent West Papua in 1961. Time enough for the Papuans to have happily embraced the benefits of being part of Indonesia, one would have thought. However West Papua, the Western half of the island of New Guinea, commonly referred to as ‘Indonesia’s restive Papua’, or ‘troubled Papua’, has had continuing demonstrations and protests against Indonesian rule, usually suppressed with brutality by Indonesian military and police.
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