[lang_id]Buku Karya Dr. John Salftord in Menunjukkan berapa PBB gagal memastikan sebuah Pepera yang demokratis dan bebas dari pelanggaran HAM.[/lang_id][lang_en]
Dr John Salford on the Role of the United Nations in the Act of Free Choice in Indonesia's West Irian
Ought to be required reading for UN officials and international law-students.’ – Julian Evans, Times Literary Supplement
‘Saltford’s exhaustive study of UN sources about the Indonesian acquisition of West Papua is one of the very first academic books about the post-colonial history of the territory. This book has broken significant ground and sets the stage for future research on related topics given the vast wealth of rich and varied source materials that remain unstudied.’ – IIAS Newsletter
‘This well-researched book is essential reading for anyone interested in Papua’ – Journal of Pacific History
‘Saltford provides us with a competent and carefully structured monograph about a shameful period in the history of the United Nations … This is a book to be highly recommended to anyone interested in post-war politics in Southeast Asia.’- Journal of Contemporary Asia
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This title 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 guaranteed to them in the UN-brokered Dutch/Indonesian agreement of 1962. Indonesian, Dutch, US, Soviet, Australian and British involvement is discussed, but particular emphasis is given to the central part played by the United Nations in the implementation of this agreement. As guarantor, the UN temporarily took over the territory’s administration from the Dutch before transferring control to Indonesia in 1963.
After five years of Indonesian rule, a UN team returned to West Papua to monitor and endorse a controversial act of self-determination that resulted in a unanimous vote by 1022 Papuan ‘representatives’ to reject independence. Despite this, the issue is still very much alive today as a crisis-hit Indonesia faces continued armed rebellion and growing calls for freedom in West Papua.[/lang_en]
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