Pieter Drooglever

An Act of Free Choice

Decolonisation and the Right to Self-Determination in West Papua

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Produktbeschreibung

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 - Droogleever highlights the continuing impact of this injustice on Indonesia's most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken province.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oneworld Publications
• Seitenzahl: 854
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 161mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1490g
• ISBN-13: 9781851687152
• ISBN-10: 1851687157
• Artikelnr.: 28895526

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Illustrations
Map: Netherlands New Guinea c. 1960
 
1 A Distant Corner of the Netherlands East Indies
The Dutch East India Company (DEIC), Tidore and New Guinea
The eastern frontier of the Netherlands East Indies
Establishing control and exploring the interior
Administrative policies up to the Second World War
The Protestant and Catholic Missions
The 'mise en valeur': business and colonists
Looking back
 
2 The Shock of War
West New Guinea during the Second World War
The way back
New Guinea under the Japanese occupation
The restoration of government under Van Eechoud
Echoes of the revolution
 
3 New Guinea as a Bargaining Tool
Indonesia becomes independent
   The nationalists take the helm
   Political relations in the Netherlands
   The federal response
   Linggadjati; talks and clashes
   A poker game between Bandung, Yogya and The Hague
Claims on New Guinea
   The Republicans' wishes
   Malino and the Moluccan Commonwealth
   The Indo-European option and the Papuan cause
   Passing the Papuans from player to player
   Dutch moves
   East Indonesian aspirations
   Republican reactions
Two Dutch pickets
   New Guinea and the Decree on the Government of Indonesia during the
Period of Transition
   The removal of Tidoran home rule on New Guinea
 
4 Separation from Indonesia
Minister Van Maarseveen steps into the limelight
The covert hand of Hollandia
The Round Table Conference
Players from the side-lines
Arguments, circumstances and motives
 
5 Locking Horns
The Netherlands and Indonesia in the 'status-quo' year
New Guinea in cold storage
The Supomo mission
Ali Sastroamidjojo's offensive
The Geneva Conference
 
6 Direct Rule from The Hague
A new system of government
Regaining momentum under Van Waardenburg
Two Calvinist comrades in power
For the sake of the Papuans' education
   Changed conditions in Protestant circles
   The arrival of the American and Australian missions
   A new place for the Roman Catholics
   Education
   Language policy
The hesitations of big business
A development project under the colonial flag
   Territorial extension of the administration
 
7 The Dispute in an International Perspective
The hounds are loose
The superpowers and the place of the United Nations
Consultations with Australia
American guarantees
An arms race at the equator
   The points of departure
   The Indonesian military build-up from 1958 onward
   The Karel Doorman's odyssey
 
8 The Turning Tide in The Hague and Washington
The crumbling home front
De Quay takes office
The first steps on the path to internationalization
   Minister Luns and the General Assembly of 1960
   Tunku Abdul Rahman's mediation attempt
   Bright boys in Washington
Further commotion on the home front
The conception of the Luns plan
The Luns plan in the General Assembly of 1961
 
9 The Metamorphoses of the Luns Plan
The Dutch Cabinet's definition of its position
Talking under pressure
   The military situation
   American diplomatic assistance
   The dispute about the preconditions
Washington's 'knock on the head'
   Kennedy nails his colours to the mast
   Ambassador Bunker's plan
   Back to Middleburg
The New York Agreement
   The Indonesian approach
   Van Roijen and Malik get down to business
   The making of the New York Agreement
   The last hurdles
 
10 Democratization Under Bot and Platteel
New Guinea; reactions of the government and the population
The democratization of the administration
   Town and Regional Councils
   The New Guinea Council
Forming Parties
 
11 Papua Blues
The New Guinea Council and the political parties
   The forming of the National Committee: Flag and Anthem
   The Luns Plan in the New Guinea Council
   Bitter travel experiences
Jitters in New Guinea
The political stance of the Papuans in 1962
   Contacts with the Eastern neighbours
   Contacts with African countries
   Members of the New Guinea Council visit The Hague
   A proclamation of independence?
   The final months under the red-white-and-blue
 
12 Under Jakarta's Thumb
The entry of the UNTEA
Under one roof with the UNTEA and Indonesia
Indonesia as temporary administrator
Build-up to the plebiscite
Between Delft, Manokwari and New York
 
13 The First Phase of the Act of Free Choice
Preliminary manoeuvres
   The task of the United Nations
   The appointment of Ortiz Sanz
   Defining positions in The Hague, Jakarta and Washington
   Ortiz Sanz's first steps
   Interim consultations in The Hague and New York
   The further development of the Indonesian plans
Papuans in action
   Resistance
   Diplomacy
 
14 The Second Phase of the Act of Free Choice
Luns, Udink and Malik to Rome
The composition of the consultative councils
Self-determination in practice
Reporting to the United Nations
Looking back in the Netherlands
 
Conclusion
 
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index