Issue 150, February 2011 Bulletin Air Power Development Centre In 1962, a military operation on Australia’s doorstep resolved a territorial conflict that otherwise could have drawn Australia into a protracted war. Although this operation is virtually unknown outside Indonesia, air power played a decisive role in its conduct. When the Netherlands government handed control of…
Month: January 2023
Indonesia’s 1969 Takeover of West Papua Not by “Free Choice”
Document Release Marks 35th Anniversaryof Controversial Vote and Annexation Secret Files Show U.S. Support for Indonesia,Human Rights Abuses by Indonesian Military Edited by Brad Simpsonsimpbrad@isu.edu / 208-282-3870 Posted July 9, 2004 Washington, D.C. – July 8, 2004 – “You should tell [Suharto] that we understand the problems they face in West Irian,” national security adviser Henry Kissinger…
JFK, Indonesia,
CIA & Freeport Sulphur
by Lisa Pease What is Past is Prologue.Inscribed on the National Archives, Washington, D.C. In Part One of this article (Probe, March-April, 1996) we talked about the early years of Freeport up through the Cuban takeover of their potentially lucrative mine at Moa Bay, as well as their run-in with President Kennedy over the issue…
Netherlands New Guinea Petroleum Company
KARL W. STAUFFERChevron Overseas Petroleum Inc.,6001 Bollinger Canyon Road., San Ramon, California 94583-0946 Dr. Hans Karl Stauffer, a pioneer of international geological work for oil exploration, died January 13, 1989, in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 97. During his career with Royal Dutch Shell, which beganin 1919 and spanned more than 20 years,…
Indonesia Against UN Article 73e for West Papua Decolonization
Cuplikan Surat Perdana Meteri Belanda De Quay kepada SEKJEN PBB U Thant tanggal 21 Mei 1962 yang mana isinya menjelaskan bahwa Menteri Luar Negeri Indonesia Soebandrio dalam berita yang dimuat AFP tanggal 16 Mei 1962 menolak Proses Dekolonisasi West Papua (Netherlands New Guinea) dan akan melakukan Agresi Militer ke West Papua walaupun melanggar Piagam PBB…
Report From Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker to President Johnson
FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1964–1968, VOLUME XXVI, INDONESIA; MALAYSIA-SINGAPORE; PHILIPPINES Washington, undated. INDONESIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS Part I: General Conclusions1.Because of the factors mentioned below Indonesian-American relations are unlikely to improve in the near future.2.Ostensible reasons advanced by Sukarno for the deterioration of Indo-U.S. relations are:a)U.S. recognition and support of Malaysia, as evidenced by the Johnson-Tunku communique2 and arms assistance (“a…
Giant Underground Mining in the World
Freeport McMoran makes headway at Grasberg Block Cave underground copper-gold mine. Freeport McMoRan has confirmed that, during the second quarter of 2019, PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI) commenced extraction of ore from the Grasberg Block Cave underground mine, in West Papua Island. This is the same orebody historically mined from the surface in the open pit,…
Prophecy of Pastor Samuel Ishack Kijne in Miei, Wondama. October 25, 1925
A Jewish missionary from the Netherlands, Pastor Samuel Ishack Kijne who evangelizes and educates the Primitive Melanesians of West Papua to know God and leave the Black Magic Culture. He stood on a rock and taught his disciples about the Bible and then said to them: “Even if you have high dignity and morals, you…
Elsworth Bunker’s Letter to President JFK
Elsworth Bunker’s letter to President John. F. Kennedy on August 29, 1962 after he succeeded in designing the Proposal which became known as the New York Agreement which was signed by Indonesia and the Netherlands at the United Nations Headquarters on August 15, 1962 for the Process of Transitioning the State Administration of West Papua…