page_title: Nicolaas Jouwe
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolaas Jouwe
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Nicolaas Jouwe uit Amerika (persconferentie op Schiphol) 6 juni 1962
context_page_description: Nicolaas Jouwe was a Papuan leader. He was elected Vice President of the New Guinea Council that governed the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea.
  As the president of the New Guinea Council, Jouwe was the highest ranking Papuan politician in the colony. After the colony was ceded to the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority in October 1962 and later to Indonesia six months later, Jouwe left New Guinea for the Netherlands, where he settled in the town of Delft. He vowed never to return to his native land if it were still occupied by Indonesia, but nevertheless resettled to West Papua in 2010 to die there.
  Jouwe died in West Papua on 16 September 2017 at age 93.
context_section_description: Nicolaas Jouwe (24 November 1923 – 16 September 2017) was a Papuan leader. He was elected Vice President of the New Guinea Council that governed the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea. 
  As the president of the New Guinea Council, Jouwe was the highest ranking Papuan politician in the colony. After the colony was ceded to the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority in October 1962 and later to Indonesia six months later, Jouwe left New Guinea for the Netherlands, where he settled in the town of Delft. He vowed never to return to his native land if it were still occupied by Indonesia, but nevertheless resettled to West Papua in 2010 to die there.
  Jouwe died in West Papua on 16 September 2017 at age 93.
caption: Nicolaas Jouwe (1962)
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