Papua and realism in foreign policy.(Editorial)

From: Quadrant | Date: May 1, 2006 | Copyright information

ONCE AGAIN the party of war against Indonesia is going through a paroxysm of jingoism. Having achieved a "victory" in East Timor, with the creation of an already corrupt and failing independent state, it is now bent on achieving a similar result in Indonesia's province of Papua. This is, naturally, represented as an exercise in morality and international law and under this rubric many religious and political (these days sometimes the two are indistinguishable) groupuscules are busily meddling in Papuan affairs and contributing what they can to the destabilisation of the Republic ...

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