Through a vast wealth of natural resources, like thelargest goldmine on Earth (Grasberg), West Papua has become Indonesia’s largest GDP contributor, and with the prospect of an independent West Papua looking with international support, Indonesia does not want Papuans telling the outside world the...
frequency today, Y-chromosome lineages representing these movements occur across Indonesia,20 notably in the west, such as the Hindu dominated island of Bali.21 It is therefore interesting that no mtDNA lineages representing this period of invasion and migration were observed in our substantial data ...
This article begins by asking how it was that Indonesia was able to sustain its illegal invasion of East Timor for almost a quarter of a century; and how Suharto was able to rule Indonesia for more than three decades without domestic legitimacy and relying on massive state violence toward the...
It offers a good way to visualize the actual scale of the periods of the Indonesian history : the colonial era once put in perspective seems very short especially for the last additions to the Dutch empire such as Aceh, Bali or Papua. It also meant to highlight the various zones of influ...
In September 2000 the Australian government declassified thousands of pages of documents concerning the Indonesian invasion and annexation of East Timor in 1975. Some 68,000 pages of documents were released. About 2,600 pages of diplomatic documents were withheld, along with Cabinet papers, ...
The Thai Army entered Cambodia in means of friendly assistance which translated by the commoners as another Thailand invasion. Yet, how so long Thailand can hold its presence, that it started to fall apart by 1984. In July, the Laotians have formed the Democratic Republic of Laos, killing ...