United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua
Subtitle: the Anatomy of Betrayal
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780203221877
Subjects: Politics and government; Papua (Indonesia)
Description: Examines the role of the international community in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s and questions whether the West Papuan people ever genuinely exercised self-determination.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Key individuals; Abbreviations; Chronology, 1945 1969; Map of West New Guinea during the 1960s; Introduction; Background, 1949 1962; Preparations for UNTEA, 15 August to 1 October 1962; UNTEA 1962; UNTEA 1963; The first years of Indonesian rule, 1963 1967; West Irian 1968: part 1; West Irian 1968: part 2; January to May 1969; May to July 1969; The Act of Free Choice and its aftermath; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.