Papua Press Agency

Asked why he quit writing satirical songs, Tom Lehrer replied that after Henry Kissinger won the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, there was nothing left to satirize. Lehrer may have underestimated Dr. K’s spirited sense of irony.
This February, the former U.S. secretary of state accepted Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid’s invitation to become an unpaid adviser to [...]

The first colonizers
Humans first settled New Guinea at least 50,000 years ago, when it was connected to Australia by a land bridge. The British were the first Europeans to attempt colonization, but their 1793 colony was evacuated within two years. The Dutch were next, proclaiming on 24 August 1828 that the natives [...]

Last November marked the 30th anniversary of the Sahara crisis, triggered when Morocco successfully pressured Madrid out of its desert colony in autumn 1975. Despite the United States’ denials, declassified records reveal that King Hassan’s success was made possible through US intervention.
by Jacob Mundy
On October 1975 the International Court of Justice declared – in an [...]

Sunday, July 18, 2004
Declassified U.S. Papers Spark Indonesian
Rebuke
By Alan Sipress
Washington Post Foreign Service
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The new publication of declassified
U.S. documents by a private
Washington-based research group, raising questions about Indonesia’s takeover of disputed territory 35 years ago, has provoked charges in Jakarta that the U.S. government must be behind the revelations.
The charges, aired last week [...]

The Washington Post Sunday, July 18, 2004 Declassified U.S. Papers Spark Indonesian Rebuke
By Alan Sipress Washington Post Foreign Service JAKARTA, Indonesia — The new publication of declassified U.S. documents by a private Washington-based research group, raising questions about Indonesia’s takeover of disputed territory 35 years ago, has provoked charges in Jakarta that the U.S. government [...]

By Alan Sipress, Washington Post Foreign Service
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The new publication of declassified U.S. documents by a private Washington-based research group, raising questions about Indonesia’s takeover of disputed territory 35 years ago, has provoked charges in Jakarta that the U.S. government must be behind the revelations.
The charges, aired last week by members of the [...]

By Alan Sipress
Washington Post Foreign Service
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The recent publication of declassified U.S. documents by a private Washington-based research group, raising questions about Indonesia’s takeover of disputed territory 35 years ago, has provoked charges in Jakarta that the U.S. government must be behind the revelations.
The charges, aired last week by members of the parliament’s [...]

By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, DC – On the 35th anniversary of the so-called “Act of Free Choice” (AFC) that resulted in West Papua’s annexation by Indonesia, newly declassified documents revealed that the administration of the late US president Richard Nixon was unwilling to raise any objections to the process despite its assessment that the move was [...]

Indonesia’s 1969 Takeover of West Papua Not by “Free Choice” Document Release Marks 35 the Anniversary of Controversial Vote and Annexation
By WPNews
National Security Archive Update, July 9, 2004
Indonesia’s 1969 Takeover of West Papua Not by “Free Choice” Document Release Marks 35 the Anniversary of Controversial Vote and Annexation.
Secret Files Show U.S. Support for Indonesia, Human [...]

Published  by the OneWorld.net
by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON – On the 35th anniversary of the so-called “Act of Free Choice” (AFC) that resulted in West Papua’s annexation by Indonesia, newly declassified documents depict the administration of President Richard Nixon as unwilling to raise any objections to the process despite its assessment that the move was overwhelmingly [...]